DZone

AUGUST 28, 2023

As their story unfolds, and with the relentless additions of new features and modifications to existing ones, this once sleek application has grown into a complex, intertwined system. Fortunately, the concept of Architectural Observability steps in to help.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In the past few years, the complexity of systems architectures drastically increased, especially in distributed, microservices-based architectures. In this article, I will describe what observability and monitoring systems, the patterns of a good observability platform, and the observability subsystem may look like.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This article is intended for data scientists, AI researchers, machine learning engineers, and advanced practitioners in the field of artificial intelligence who have a solid grounding in machine learning concepts, natural language processing , and deep learning architectures.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This article delves into the paradigm shift from traditional to real-time data integration, examines its architectural nuances, and contemplates its profound impact on decision-making and business processes. The new norm is real-time data integration, and it’s transforming the way companies make decisions and conduct their operations.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

In today's rapidly evolving technology landscape, it's common for applications to migrate to the cloud to embrace the microservice architecture. While this architectural approach offers scalability, reusability, and adaptability, it also presents a unique challenge: effectively managing communication between these microservices.

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DZone

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Today, I want to share my experience working with Zabbix, its architecture, its pros, and its cons. My first encounter with this monitoring system was in 2014 when I joined a project where Zabbix was already in use for monitoring network devices (routers, switches). It also allows for some advanced features, such as problem prediction.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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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DZone

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In the world of distributed systems, the likelihood of components failing or becoming unresponsive is higher compared to monolithic systems. Therefore, resilience — the ability of a system to handle and recover from failures — becomes critically important in distributed environments.

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Dynatrace

JULY 14, 2022

As federal agencies implement zero trust (ZT) as directed by the White House “Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” there’s growing concern that zero trust architecture and great user experiences can’t coexist. Then, the system told me to call a number to set it up manually.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

That's because there’s been very little evolution in software system architecture. I'll just say I’m proud of how it turned out and if you want an optimal algorithm for exercising, you might like it. I know I haven’t been writing much lately. It’s pretty much same thing, different day.

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DZone

MAY 26, 2020

While the term reactive architecture has been around for a long time, only relatively recently has it been recognized by the industry and hit mainstream adoption. And the goal of this article is to analyze what reactive really is and why to adopt it.

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DZone

JUNE 29, 2022

The purpose of this article is to help readers understand what is caching, the problems it addresses, and how caching can be applied across layers of system architecture to solve some of the challenges faced by modern software systems.

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DZone

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Evolutionary architecture is something every software architect thinks about. To support this evolution in Apiumhub we believe that fitness functions can help in finding how well a system meets specified architecture goals and constraints in an automated way. And today’s post is about architectural fitness functions.

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InfoQ

APRIL 17, 2024

During the recent QCon London conference, Trainline’s CTO spoke about the evolution of the company’s system architecture and organizational structure over the last five years. The company had to adapt to market changes and growing customer expectations by improving the performance and reliability of its technology platform.

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Simform

JULY 23, 2021

Design systems have turned out to be a boon for such teams as they lend coherency to user experiences across frontends. In this article, you'll learn about the variations of design systems employed by organizations worldwide and their specific characteristics.

Architecture 92

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DZone

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This is widely used to build event-driven systems or decouple services on AWS. Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) is a message queue service that enables application components to communicate with each other by exchanging messages.

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DZone

AUGUST 16, 2019

Service-Oriented Architecture Overview. A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural pattern in computer software design in which application components provide services to other components via a communications protocol, typically over a network.

Architecture 138

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

A great example of this approach to innovation and problem solving is the creation of the AWS Nitro System , the underlying platform for our EC2 instances. Now, with the Nitro System, we can offer the best price performance in the cloud, the most secure environment, and a faster pace of innovation.

Virtualization 213

Virtualization AWS Systems Innovation 213

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

FThis article describes a pattern we have observed and applied in multi-team-scope architecture modernization initiatives, the Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET). An AMET is a type of architecture enabling team that coordinates and upskills all teams and stakeholders in the modernization initiative.

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

The reality of the startup is that engineering teams are often at a crossroads when it comes to choosing the foundational architecture for their software applications. The allure of a microservice architecture is understandable in today's tech state of affairs, where scalability, flexibility, and independence are highly valued.

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Although, only recently the security attacks on quantum computers have begun to be demonstrated, this brings to the forefront the need to consider security of quantum computer architectures as a first-class design objective. Why Research Security of Quantum Computers?

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DZone

MARCH 5, 2024

Building scalable systems using microservices architecture is a strategic approach to developing complex applications. This step-by-step guide outlines the process of creating a microservices-based system, complete with detailed examples.

Strategy 279

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Simform

JULY 23, 2021

Design systems have turned out to be a boon for such teams as they lend coherency to user experiences across frontends. In this article, you'll learn about the variations of design systems employed by organizations worldwide and their specific characteristics.

Architecture 52

Architecture Design Systems Technology 52

DZone

MARCH 5, 2024

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, The Modern DevOps Lifecycle: Shifting CI/CD and Application Architectures. By integrating observability tools in CI/CD pipelines, organizations can increase deployment frequency, minimize risks, and build highly available systems.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

One of the biggest time costs in software development is understanding how a system works. Systems are getting more complex yet our ability to understand them doesn’t seem to be growing at the same rate. As we continuously develop software systems, the complexity slowly increases and we don’t fully realise it.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 15, 2020

Eight years ago I wrote _Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud_ (aka the "sysperf" book) on the performance of computing systems, and this year I'm excited to be releasing the second edition. A year ago I announced [BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability]. Which book should you buy?

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DZone

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Observability platforms are akin to the immune system. Just like immune cells are everywhere in human bodies, an observability platform patrols every corner of your devices, components, and architectures, identifying any potential threats and proactively mitigating them.

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Speed Architecture Systems Processing 265

DZone

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In the vibrant world of microservices and event-driven architectures, messaging queues have emerged as a critical component, enabling asynchronous communication, decoupling systems, and unlocking scalability. However, with a vibrant landscape of options, choosing the optimal queue can feel like navigating a complex maze.

Scalability 257

Scalability Architecture Systems Processing 257

DZone

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Cloud-native application development in AWS often requires complex, layered architecture with synchronous and asynchronous interactions between multiple components, e.g., API Gateway, Microservices, Serverless Functions, and system of record integration.

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InfoQ

JULY 7, 2023

Facundo Agriel dives into the architecture of Magic Pocket, some early key design patterns, and the challenges of operating such a system at this scale. By Facundo Agriel

Systems 52

Systems Storage Architecture Design 52

DZone

MAY 15, 2023

In today's fast-paced software development landscape, microservices have emerged as a popular architectural pattern. This architectural style enables teams to develop and deploy services independently, offering flexibility and scalability to the software development process. But what exactly are microservices?

Best Practices 300

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DZone

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A proper architecture ensures that there are no bottlenecks in the movement of messages. Traditional methods often fall short in managing this kind of volume and scale, leading to bottlenecks impacting the performance of the system. A critical component of such an application is message distribution.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Most organisations go through an architecture modernisation effort at some point as their systems drift into a state of intolerable maintenance costs and they diverge too far from modern technological advances. What architecture will be optimal for enabling that business vision? How are we going to deliver the new architecture?

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

New Architectures (this post). Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. First, we have a shift to centrally managed systems. Software as a Service’ (SaaS) basically are centrally managed systems with multiple tenants/instances. . – Agile.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

A great example of this approach to innovation and problem solving is the creation of the AWS Nitro System (Nitro System), the underlying platform for our EC2 instances. Now, with the Nitro System, we can offer the best price performance in the cloud, the most secure environment, and a faster pace of innovation.

Virtualization 88

Virtualization AWS Systems Innovation 88

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. This blog series will examine the tools, techniques, and strategies we have utilized to achieve this goal.

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