DZone

JUNE 12, 2019

A system that has the ability to easily scale resources to meet the increasing workload without affecting the performance is known as a scalable system. To make an easy-to-scale system, it is crucial to have an evolutionary way of thinking about the software development cycle.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In contrast to modern software architecture, which uses distributed microservices, organizations historically structured their applications in a pattern known as “monolithic.” ” A monolithic software application has a few properties that are important to understand. Centralized applications. Read eBook now!

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is hugely important for medium and large organisations. High-performing technology organisations are characterised by decentralisation: autonomous teams, masters of the problem space, who own products or features. designing systems that document themselves. Enterprise Architects are smart people.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

Over the past few years I have focused much of my learning and work choices around learning about the design of sociotechnical systems?—?how how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. As part of good design, we should consider the effects of changing all of these variables.

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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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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

photo taken by Adrian Cockcroft A year ago I did a talk at re:Invent called Architecture Trends and Topics for 2021 , so I thought it was worth seeing how they played out and updating them for the coming year. I did a few talks on this subject early in the year, and linked this to the sustainability advantages of serverless architectures.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

In Domain-Driven Design, a large system is decomposed into bounded contexts , which become natural boundaries in code as microservices and as teams in the organisation. The Bounded Context Design Canvas I designed this canvas based on the typical flow of strategic DDD workshops I run publicly and privately.

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cdemi

MAY 8, 2016

If used correctly, this pattern can improve performance and help maintain consistency between the cache and the underlying data store. This post is part of a Design Patterns series. Applications that rely heavily on a data-store usually can benefit greatly from using the Cache-Aside Pattern. Reading Data.

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cdemi

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Modern software usually involves running tasks that invoke services. If the service is subjected to intermittent heavy loads, it can cause performance or reliability issues. Control Costs : You don't have to design your service to meet peak load, but rather average load. Considerations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

This decision was not geared by performance issues?—?but Leveraging Hexagonal Architecture We needed to support the ability to swap data sources without impacting business logic , so we knew we needed to keep them decoupled. The idea of Hexagonal Architecture is to put inputs and outputs at the edges of our design.

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cdemi

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Load-Levelling : Since this Design Pattern, inherently uses the Queue-Based Load Leveling Pattern , all of the Benefits applied there apply here as well. The workload also needs to be load balanced across consumers to prevent an instance from becoming a bottleneck.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 18, 2018

IMDGs enable transparent performance scaling, which is required to ensure fast event handling, and they typically have built-in high availability. What is required is a software architecture that enables seamless migration without requiring application code to be reimplemented for execution on edge-based platforms.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 18, 2018

IMDGs enable transparent performance scaling, which is required to ensure fast event handling, and they typically have built-in high availability. What is required is a software architecture that enables seamless migration without requiring application code to be reimplemented for execution on edge-based platforms.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). It was at this point that we realized we needed to make a significant change in our approach towards performance, and that we must embrace performance as part of our culture. Dan Shappir. Large preview ).

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. 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.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

There are thousands of ways we can shape the software systems we build and organise our teams around them. Yet there is no flowchart we can simply follow to find the optimal design. The products themselves are software systems which grow harder and harder to reason about as they scale and age.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

Netflix Modeling Challenges Before Caveats SpiceDB, being a Relationship Based Access Control (ReBAC) system, expected authorization checks to be performed against the existence of a specific relationship between objects. What was problematic about this design? This is a Caveated SpiceDB relationship.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both On the surface, this doesn’t seem like much.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Let’s start by considering the job of a non-ML software engineer: writing traditional software deals with well-defined, narrowly-scoped inputs, which the engineer can exhaustively and cleanly model in the code. In effect, the engineer designs and builds the world wherein the software operates. Software Architecture.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

One thing stand-out to me is being intentional and practical about your engineering organisation design. First and foremost, being intentional about organisation design requires good and honest discussions about all possible option. In this model, software architecture and code ownership is a reflection of the organisational model.

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

A strict definition of “cloud” must also include software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings of all kinds—including email (Google G Suite email; Microsoft Exchange Online), office productivity suites (Google Docs and Sheets; Microsoft Office 365), and similar offerings.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both On the surface, this doesn’t seem like much.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Scott Havens, Senior Director of Engineering at Mode Operandi, highlighted the benefits of event-based systems over legacy approaches, and how software architecture should be just as beautiful as the clothes on sale. Just look at how ugly that service-oriented architecture is!” Compliance doesn’t need to scary, stressed Levins.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Layers start to emerge and as a result, shipping new customer-facing features require changes that cut through multiple layers of the architecture. Subsequently, the problem of coordinating multiple teams arises, each with their own backlog and performance goals to achieve. As a consequence, we also have subservient teams?—?teams

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. Service-oriented architecture -- or SOA -- is the fundamental building abstraction for Amazon technologies. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Recent Entries.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2020

The techniques we use for visual, collaborative domain modelling are designed for in-person events, where everybody is in the same physical space. We will be running a remote-optimised domain-driven design workshop on 15–16th June where we will use some of the techniques discussed in this post and many others, like the bounded context canvas.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

This incredible power is available for anyone to use in the usual pay-as-you-go model, removing the investment barrier that has kept many organizations from adopting GPUs for their workloads even though they knew there would be significant performance benefit. From CPU to GPU.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery performance and organizational scaling. Decoupling Streams of Work Our goal when designing systems is to maximise the speed of delivery and value of the work we deliver.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 1, 2019

You’re building a new system and two members of your team propose alternative architectures for sending notifications. How will you design the most effective architecture which supports short-term goals and long-term evolution? With the dynamic version, the corresponding configuration would be performed via an API call or UI.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

When your software system communicates with external systems or devices, there is good reason to isolate all communication with the external system into a single place and perform the relevant translation there. I call this pattern The Gateway Interchange Context.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The answer is performance, but more importantly concurrency conflicts. With an understanding of the performance and concurrency implications of enforcing Invariant Business Rules we can ask the business, what would happen if a patient booked two appointments on the same day or a reschedule wasn’t instantly provided?

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