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Architectural Insights: Designing Efficient Multi-Layered Caching With Instagram Example

DZone

This article will explore the concept of multi-layered caching from both architectural and development perspectives, focusing on real-world applications like Instagram, and provide insights into designing and implementing an efficient multi-layered cache system.

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Designing a Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Messaging System for Distributed Applications

DZone

A messaging system serves as a backbone, allowing information transmission between different services or modules in a distributed architecture. The cornerstone is a well-designed and painstakingly built messaging system, which allows for smooth communication and data exchange across diverse components.

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Architecture Patterns: Publish/Subscribe

DZone

The Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub) pattern is a widely-used software architecture paradigm, particularly relevant in the design of distributed, messaging-driven systems. The communication framework is decoupled, scalable, and dynamic, making it useful for addressing complex software requirements in modern application development.

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Security by design enhanced by unified observability and security

Dynatrace

At financial services company, Soldo, efficiency and security by design are paramount goals. This efficiency is why he and his teams use Dynatrace for everything in their development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) practices. What is security by design? We’re born in the cloud, we’re a cloud-native company.

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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

Currently, he is in the Alexa Shopping organization where he is developing machine-learning-based solutions to send personalized reorder hints to customers for improving their experience. Design a photo-sharing platform similar to Instagram where users can upload their photos and share it with their followers. High Level Design.

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Weighing a microservices approach means covering all architecture bases

Dynatrace

Many organizations are taking a microservices approach to IT architecture. A microservices approach enables DevOps teams to develop an application as a suite of small services. However, in some cases, an organization may be better suited to another architecture approach. What is the monolithic architecture approach?

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Ready for changes with Hexagonal Architecture

The Netflix TechBlog

The monolith allowed for rapid development and quick changes while the knowledge of the space was non-existent. At one point, more than 30 developers were working on it, and it had well over 300 database tables. We decided to build our app based on principles behind Hexagonal Architecture and Uncle Bob’s Clean Architecture.