InfoQ

APRIL 12, 2024

Yao Yue recapitulates scaling a project at Twitter while summarizing some key lessons learned about effective performance engineering. By Yao Yue

Engineering 99

Engineering Performance Design Scalability 99

Simform

JULY 26, 2021

Frontend architecture comprises a bunch of practices and tools that upgrades your application’s code quality. What’s more, it also presents you with the opportunity to create a productive, scalable, and sustainable workflow. The post How to Re-evaluate Your Frontend Architecture and Improve its Design?

Architecture 59

Architecture Design Scalability Technology 59

InfoQ

APRIL 26, 2024

Lily Mara, Hunter Laine walk through the design of a system, its performance characteristics, and how they scaled it. By Lily Mara, Hunter Laine

Design 84

Design Systems Performance Scalability 84

InfoQ

APRIL 25, 2024

Jenna Zeigen discusses front-end performance issues encountered by Slack as they continue to grow and evolve the desktop app. By Jenna Zeigen

Performance 90

Performance Design Scalability Architecture 90

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

InfoQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Peter Lawrey discusses achieving vertical scalability by minimizing accidental complexity and using an event-driven architecture. By Peter Lawrey

Scalability 73

Scalability Efficiency Systems Architecture 73

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. Five Nines availability or 99.999%, also referred to as "the gold standard" significantly reduces downtime (5.26

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

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.

Software Engineering 80

Software Engineering Design Engineering Software 80

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.

Design 113

Design Website Efficiency Games 113

InfoQ

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Aditi Gupta discusses the design choices made early on during service development that were crucial to scaling operations later on at Netflix. By Aditi Gupta

Design 55

Design Development Scalability Architecture 55

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. All these elements combined serve as the blueprint of a CDN architecture.Â

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

InfoQ

MARCH 25, 2022

Selina Liu walks through what it takes to decompose a large and complex monolith into independent, performant services, and how they evolve and scale the architecture with changing business needs. By Selina Liu.

Architecture 57

Architecture Performance Design Scalability 57

InfoQ

MARCH 16, 2024

Alex Dubrouski, Gaojie Liu discuss some of the tricks used in their pursuit to lower read latency and to reach 1M operations per second per node. By Alex Dubrouski, Gaojie Liu

Latency 83

Latency Design Scalability Architecture 83

Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

Additionally, blind spots in cloud architecture are making it increasingly difficult for organizations to balance application performance with a robust security posture. At this year’s RSA conference, taking place in San Francisco from May 6-9, presenters will explore ideas such as redefining security in the age of AI.

Artificial Intelligence 130

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Best Practices DevOps 130

InfoQ

JUNE 23, 2023

Frank Yu discusses how to decrease bandwidth usage and buffering across the system, protect against thundering herd problems, and simplify the logic of gateway and persistence services. By Frank Yu

Systems 52

Systems Design Scalability Architecture 52

DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

With rising competition in the digital world and the requirement to be present in the top rank of the category, makes performance tests crucial for companies. For example, the gaming app has to present definite actions to bring the right experience. Confirming scalability, dependability, stability, and speed of the app is crucial.

Performance Testing 220

Performance Testing Testing Tools Testing Performance 220

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2024

To some, it’s a design methodology — a foundational pillar of the AI model development process. Decision trees and dashboards are two common visualization methods that present complex data in an easily readable format. Strong visualization tools are necessary to fully maximize any explainable AI method’s benefits.

Artificial Intelligence 217

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Government Technology 217

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

At this year’s Perform, we are thrilled to have our three strategic cloud partners, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), returning as both sponsors and presenters to share their expertise about cloud modernization and observability of generative AI models. What will the new architecture be?

Cloud 217

Cloud Artificial Intelligence Performance AWS 217

InfoQ

APRIL 10, 2024

At QCon London, Doulingo’s engineers presented the asynchronous AWS architecture responsible for broadcasting messages to millions of users across seven US cities. As part of the Super Bowl marketing campaign, Duolingo sent out 4 million mobile push notifications when the company’s five-second ad aired during the commercial break.

AWS 70

AWS Architecture Mobile Engineering 70

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

We decided to use our inventive powers to design and build a new database engine that would give database systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL reliability and performance at scale, at a level that could serve even the most demanding OLTP applications.

Database 120

Database Design Cloud Storage 120

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

While off-the-shelf models assist many organizations in initiating their journeys with generative AI (GenAI), scaling AI for enterprise use presents formidable challenges. Figure 1: Sample RAG architecture While this approach significantly improves the response quality of GenAI applications, it also introduces new challenges.

Cache 209

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 209

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

“Dynatrace provides improved visibility into the code running the OneStream platform on Microsoft Azure, enabling our engineering teams to constantly improve the user experiences our customers have grown to trust,” said Ryan Berry, SVP of Architecture at OneStream.

Azure 184

Azure Analytics Artificial Intelligence Innovation 184

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.

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

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.

Architecture 59

Architecture Design Mobile Systems 59

ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The rest of the article presents some examples of this behavior and how it impacts our field, whether we care to admit it or not. Present Bias. In Thaler’s book, he uses the term “present bias” to describe how people discount the future and give larger weight or value to decisions that are closer in time. Discounting the Past.

Architecture 47

Architecture Cache Hardware Virtualization 47

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.

Design 45

Design Software Architecture Strategy Technology 45

InfoQ

JULY 8, 2020

Michelle Garrett talks about the journey of introducing and then scaling a GraphQL BFF to serve multiple applications. She covers the benefits of the Backend For Frontend pattern and why it's a popular way to introduce GraphQL. She talks about how to remain agile and support a production application throughout this process. By Michelle Garrett.

Processing 92

Processing Design Scalability Architecture 92

InfoQ

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Phil Calçado explores how they dealt with the hyper growth phase and what are the changes and initiatives they have put in place to make sure that they keep growing and pushing the envelope. By Phil Calçado

Design 52

Design Scalability Architecture Performance 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

Marken architecture Above picture represents the block diagram of the architecture for our service. Our architecture makes it possible to easily onboard and ingest data from Media algorithms. Our service will be used by a lot of internal UI applications hence the latency for CRUD and search operations must be low.

Scalability 283

Scalability Latency Media Architecture 283

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.

Design 76

Design Systems Strategy Processing 76

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.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

Data scale and silos present challenges to DevOps maturity DevOps teams often run into problems trying to drive better data-driven decisions with observability and security data. Research has found that 99% of organizations have embraced a multicloud architecture.

DevOps 188

DevOps Analytics Storage Metrics 188

InfoQ

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Anderson Parra, Vitor Pellegrino discuss how their ticketing systems work and cover the virtual waiting room – the primary component that allows them to handle high-traffic ticket on-sales. By Anderson Parra, Vitor Pellegrino.

Traffic 52

Traffic Virtualization Systems Design 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity. Since its introduction in the 1960s, the concept of DBMS has undergone significant evolution.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Key Takeaways Cloud security monitoring is a comprehensive approach involving both manual and automated processes to oversee servers, applications, platforms, and websites, using tools that are customized to fit unique cloud architectures. Nevertheless, this integration can present certain challenges to organizations.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

Further, legacy custom-developed apps were not built to meet the present-day user experience that HHS clients and partners expect. Step 2: Design and activate your cloud migration strategy It takes smart planning to migrate applications to the cloud with minimal disruption.

Government 209

Government Infrastructure Programming Cloud 209

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

However, each of these methods presents a unique trade-off: you have to choose between controlling the test fixture and setup, or controlling the test driver. While these tools attempt to rectify the shortcomings of traditional integration testing methods, they have other limitations due to their architecture.

Testing 244

Testing Code Servers Testing Tools 244