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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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Legacy Architecture Modernisation With Strategic Domain-Driven Design

Strategic Tech

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. Before jumping into either of those scenarios, have a look at what Strategic Domain-Driven Design can offer you.

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QCon London: Meta Used Monolithic Architecture to Ship Threads in Only Five Months

InfoQ

The company leveraged Instagram's existing monolithic architecture and quickly iterated to create a new text-first microblogging service in record time. Zahan Malkani talked during QCon London 2024 about Meta’s journey from identifying the opportunity in the market to shipping the Threads application only five months later.