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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Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

So why not use a proven architecture instead of starting from scratch on your own? This blog provides links to such architectures — for MySQL and PostgreSQL software. You can use these Percona architectures to build highly available PostgreSQL or MySQL environments or have our experts do the heavy lifting for you.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

We’re delighted to share that IBM and Dynatrace have joined forces to bring the Dynatrace Operator, along with the comprehensive capabilities of the Dynatrace platform, to Red Hat OpenShift on the IBM Power architecture (ppc64le). The scope of the automatic workload instrumentation is user configurable, for example, by namespace.

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The security attacks demonstrated so far, for example, show that it is possible to induce errors in qubits via crosstalk, fingerprint the quantum computer devices, or even leak information across reset gates. In particular, recent research has begun to demonstrate that it is possible to perform security attacks on quantum computers.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Evaluating these on three levels—data center, host, and application architecture (plus code)—is helpful. Options at each level offer significant potential benefits, especially when complemented by practices that influence the design and purchase decisions made by IT leaders and individual contributors.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2024

Bring logic to data with easy-to-build apps As a unified observability and security platform, Dynatrace is designed to be open and customizable from the ground up. Let’s explore some real-life custom solution examples that leverage the power of the Dynatrace core platform technologies to go beyond observability.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is CDN Architecture?‍CDN CDN architecture serves as a blueprint or plan that guides the distribution of CDN provider PoPs. The two fundamentals of a CDN architecture revolve around distribution and capacity. Here are a few examples.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Team Topologies has significantly advanced the discussion on organisation design for technology companies. My goal is to create common ground so that we can discuss the trade-offs of organisational design patterns. Roman use the example of Microsoft Office as a product bundle. Not all products have to belong to a bundle.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Your company operates a massive distributed architecture that spans multiple data centers and cloud providers, and your databases are a crucial part of this infrastructure. For example, the QA team would only have access to data from the QA environment rather than having access to the production environment. to monitor and diagnose. +50

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

For example, we invest in next-generation, royalty-free codecs and sophisticated video encoding optimizations. Video downscaling is the most pertinent example herein, which tailors our encoding to screen resolutions of different devices and optimizes picture quality under varying network conditions. A visual example is shown below.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. No matter what HMI we design, we need to allow users to take advantage of all that a system has to offer. Car HMI design is a relatively new field with its specifics that you need to be aware of.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design. Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design. I learned how to channel my often rebellious attitude to conventional design thinking to develop novel solutions to often everyday design problems.

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SQL Performance

JULY 8, 2021

I want to talk about UI design choices that lead to data access patterns that are awkward to implement using SQL Server. Consider this design: The data behind this example requires counting and processing the entire dataset in order to report the number of results. Sort By Column. FETCH NEXT 25 ROWS ONLY ; -- wait a little bit.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 29, 2021

If you would like to learn or practice how to break up a large business into domains and use them as the foundation for your software architecture and team organization, I have created a strategic domain-driven design kata that you may find useful. Who to invite? I recommend organising attendees into groups of 4–5 people.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. It’s architecture was specially designed to manage large-scale data warehouses and business intelligence workloads by giving you the ability to spread your data out across a multitude of servers.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Now you can: Understand the actual architecture of your applications in Kubernetes in real-time. Understand the architecture of your applications in Kubernetes in real-time. For this example, we’ll use a simple application called “Online Boutique,” which is based on the Google microservices demo application.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

For example, Amazon Web Services (AWS) charges for data transfer between Amazon EC2 instances within the same region. Suboptimal architecture design. Poorly designed cloud solutions can become costly over time. Unnecessary data transfer. On-demand payment agreement. On-demand payment is the most expensive pricing option.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

For example, a Stanford University and UC Berkeley team noted in a research study that ChatGPT behavior deteriorates over time. Using the example of a chatbot, once the user submits a natural language prompt, RAG summarizes that prompt using semantic data. Consequently, AI model drift and hallucinations emerge as primary concerns.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. When a company’s digital representation lacks a dedicated UX/UI design team, it can be hard to produce something that stands out from the crowd. That’s why you need a good UI/UX designer. Nataliya Sambir. And vice versa.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Our colleagues wrote a Netflix Tech Blog post describing the details of this architecture. The transition to the new federated architecture meant that many of our backend teams needed to adopt GraphQL in our Java ecosystem. Backward compatibility is even more critical when working in a Federated GraphQL architecture.

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O'Reilly Software

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Watch highlights from expert talks covering cloud-native programming, software architecture career advice, and more. People from across the software architecture world are coming together in New York for the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference. Design and architecture: Special Dumpster Fire Unit.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

For example, we have a service that stores a movie entity’s metadata or a service that stores metadata about images. In Pic 1 below, we have an example of an application which is used by editors to review their work. We don’t allow incompatible changes, for example, users can not change the data type of a property.

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Tech News Gather

AUGUST 3, 2022

When designing a mobile app, getting distracted and forgetting about the practical side of things is easy. There are several features and functions to consider, not to mention creating an overall design scheme with the best user experience. Top 7 Mistakes To Avoid When Designing an App. Why Is Mobile App UX Important?

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 29, 2020

In Part 1 of this series, a shared language was proposed to accurately describe different elements of a business’s architecture. We can now start to slice and group those architectural pieces into team-sized chunks and analyse the trade-offs of each pattern, and explore contexts in which they might be applicable.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The rise of cloud-native microservice architectures further exacerbates this change. Grail is designed for scalability, with no technical prerequisites or additional hosting and storage costs as ingestion rates increase. For example, this includes the following: Click to query. Start step-by-step with DQL.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture. For example, on a 128GB memory host, this can allow up to 38.4GB of dirty pages. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available. The background ratio won’t kick in until 12.8GB.

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Microsoft initially designed the OS for internal use to develop and manage Azure services. The core operating system has a lightweight footprint of only a few hundred MBs when uncompressed, yet it is powerful enough to support various profiles, including x64 or Arm64-based architectures. Why monitor Azure Linux container host for AKS?

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Their design emphasizes increasing availability by spreading out files among different nodes or servers — this approach significantly reduces risks associated with losing or corrupting data due to node failure. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The growing challenge in modern IT environments is the exponential increase in log telemetry data, driven by the expansion of cloud-native, geographically distributed, container- and microservice-based architectures. As a result, only authorized users can view or modify data within a designated bucket.

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High Scalability

MAY 14, 2020

Sure, Zoom has made some design decisions that made sense as a small spunky startup that don't make a lot of sense as a defacto standard, but that's to be expected. It's not a sign of bad architecture as many have suggested.

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved. Everyone who goes to architecture school learns his work. It must be useful, have utility.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Grail architectural basics. The aforementioned principles have, of course, a major impact on the overall architecture. A data lakehouse addresses these limitations and introduces an entirely new architectural design. It’s based on cloud-native architecture and built for the cloud. But what does that mean?

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Testlodge

JULY 3, 2019

SOA or Service Oriented Architecture is a software development framework employed for building a business application by using a number of small independent services. For example, a payment service is used for online payments, and an authentication service is used for securely logging users into their application. The SOA Principle.

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

For example, the gaming app has to present definite actions to bring the right experience. It is almost a part of the wider performance engineering portrait, concentrating on performance glitches in the architecture and design of any software. Confirming scalability, dependability, stability, and speed of the app is crucial.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Inability to test segments of the app, for example if a component is only visible after clicking a button and waiting for a 60 second timer to countdown, the test will need to run those actions and will be at least a minute long. For more information and examples, refer to the Overrides section on the README.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

FaaS vs. monolithic architectures. Monolithic architectures were commonplace with legacy, on-premises software solutions. Because FaaS is a cloud-native approach, it makes great use of multisite cloud architecture to improve availability and reliability. Increased availability. Consider the challenges of function as a service.

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