Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Every technical challenge in this design space is paired with an even more daunting governance problem. These privacy requirements put challenging constraints on the design of a shared cache. But the completeness constraint is far from our only design challenge. Trust Falls #. Variations on a Theme #. Back of the Napkin #.

Cache 82

Cache Government Traffic Network 82

Particular Software

JANUARY 5, 2021

Design systems to be easily maintainable: See what Udi has to say in Day 1 of his Advanced Distributed Systems Design video course. The chances of all this communication happening effectively (or at all) are small enough that it’s virtually impossible the people on this team can all understand everything going on in a large system.

Availability 59

Availability Systems Architecture Design 59

Particular Software

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

You only pay for the compute time you consume. However, to build a complex distributed system on serverless technology that implements best practices from the Enterprise Integration Patterns book, you need something more that will bridge the gap between the “invisible” server infrastructure and your business code.

Lambda 52

Lambda AWS Serverless Programming 52

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Although these problems are very different, we are trying to establish a common framework that helps to design optimization and data mining tasks required for solutions. The design of the model heavily depends on the problem. This model helps to design targeted usage expansion campaigns. Propensity to category expansion.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Have we optimized enough with tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, progressive hydration, clients hints, HTTP/3, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. R was designed for use in academic, scientific, and, more recently, commercial use cases. Cloud native design is a new way of thinking about software and architecture. Coincidence?

Software Architecture 134

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 134

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

The term “component” is often used to refer both to functionality and design. Note : Brad Frost’s “ Atomic Design ” is a great methodology for identifying these common patterns and building a reusable design system. Brad Frost identifies five distinct levels in atomic design for creating design systems.

Social Media 64

Social Media Database Media Website 64

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I remember as a young, naive software developer, I assumed there would be structured processes and patterns similar to those used for designing a software architecture. I crave structure and analytical thinking patterns to design optimal solutions. Finally a model for organising teams. Make an effort to visualise them.

Architecture 64

Architecture Strategy Design Software Architecture 64

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 1, 2022

That's much harder than executing to a script prescribed by a mechanical process because the manager has to understand the skills and aptitudes, strengths and weaknesses, competencies and limitations of the people within the team. Sometimes people are exactly as advertised: a subject matter expert, a department director, a knowledge worker.

Processing 52

Processing Design Systems Programming 52

Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

If you’re among the thousands of organisations building a platform-powered digital ecosystem, you face serious organisation design challenges. Without an explicit organisation design strategy, you will over-commit resources to low priority initiatives and starve your big bets?—?the This is a concept we can apply in organisation design.

Design 40

Design Speed Innovation Strategy 40

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For a sufficiently large training dataset—say, “billions of online images” or “the entirety of Wikipedia”—a model can pick up on the kinds of patterns that make its outputs seem eerily lifelike. It just kept shuffling the designs that satisfied its fitness function until the process finally converged.

Hardware 98

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 98

Strategic Tech

JUNE 4, 2019

But there are a series of heuristics, or questions we can ask ourselves, to improve our chances of making the right sociotechnical design decision. Take a look at the following checklist and the example patterns and I’m sure you’re more likely to architect better systems in the future. Will consumers lose any capabilities?

Software Architecture 40

Software Architecture Efficiency Innovation Architecture 40

Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

Yet there is no flowchart we can simply follow to find the optimal design. Consumer expectations are in a constant state of flux as new technological advancements arise and new competitors emerge, yet the goal is to continuously deliver products that satisfy market demand. We have the unpredictable nature of markets.

Design 40

Design Architecture Software Architecture Systems 40

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2014

It needs to be developed, and developing it requires a capability in technology (design, coding, testing, etc.) If today's disruptive tech becomes tomorrow's status quo, doesn't that mean it needs to be part of a firm's core competency? It is safer to rent capability where the tech follows established patterns.

Social Media 40

Social Media Entertainment Airlines Media 40

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. Tossing out suboptimal parts of our design can be a daunting task, especially after you’ve invested hours of work into it. Mediocre vs Great Dashboard Design.

Design 93

Design Best Practices Efficiency Testing 93