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

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2024

In a perfect world, a robust AI model can perform complex tasks while users observe the decision process and audit any errors or concerns. To some, it’s a design methodology — a foundational pillar of the AI model development process. Explainable AI methodologies are still in the early stages of development.

Artificial Intelligence 209

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Government Technology 209

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Defining Hybrid Cloud Strategy The decision-making process about where to situate data and applications is vital to any hybrid cloud solution. Defining Hybrid Cloud Strategy The decision-making process about where to situate data and applications is vital to any hybrid cloud solution.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

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. This process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

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 208

Cloud Artificial Intelligence Performance AWS 208

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Grail – the foundation of exploratory analytics Grail can already store and process log and business events. Introducing Metrics on Grail Despite their many advantages, modern cloud-native architectures can result in scalability and fragmentation challenges. You no longer need to split, distribute, or pre-aggregate your data.

Analytics 226

Analytics Social Media Metrics Efficiency 226

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 201

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 201

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

These dynamics orchestrate a multifaceted overhaul of the business terrain, including processes and operations, and require teams to explore new approaches. Thriving in the digital era requires a unified approach to observability, security, and business data analytics built on AI, analytics, and automation capabilities.

Azure 176

Azure Analytics Artificial Intelligence Innovation 176

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0 Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this context, managing the data, especially when it arrives late, can present a substantial challenge! In this three-part blog post series, we introduce you to Psyberg , our incremental data processing framework designed to tackle such challenges! Let’s dive in! What is late-arriving data? Some techniques we used were: 1.

Data Engineering 264

Data Engineering Engineering Processing Games 264

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 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments. For Inter-Process Communication (IPC) between services, we needed the rich feature set that a mid-tier load balancer typically provides. Eureka and Ribbon presented a simple but powerful interface, which made adopting them easy.

Traffic 220

Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 220

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. A process that doesn’t just minimize risk, but also facilitates a continuous evaluation of the rollout’s impact.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

The tool provides an efficient way for creatives (photo editors, artwork designers, etc.) With the AVA Discovery View, all the prominent characters of the title and their best possible shots are presented to the creatives. Each algorithm needed a process of evaluation and tuning to get great results in AVA Discovery View.

Media 169

Media Scalability Architecture Strategy 169

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

In a federated graph architecture, how can we answer such a query given that each entity is served by its own service? The Studio Search platform was designed to take a portion of the federated graph, a subgraph rooted at an entity of interest, and make it searchable. Data Mesh streams are schematized with Avro.

Engineering 263

Engineering Architecture Java Infrastructure 263

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

Data volumes are growing all the time, making it harder to orchestrate, process, and analyze to turn information into insight. 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. What is DevOps maturity?

DevOps 180

DevOps Analytics Storage Metrics 180

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture. The report focuses on MySQL, but it is valid for MongoDB as well. Unfortunately, MongoDB is not NUMA-aware, and because of this, MongoDB can allocate memory unevenly, leading to the swap issue even with memory available.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

Individual teams may be full-stack/end-to-end or dedicated presentation/domain teams. An Experience Group is a collection of teams which handle only experience and presentation concerns. Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies. Each team in an Identity group may own one or more features.

Architecture 98

Architecture Mobile Infrastructure Cloud 98

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

Percona

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Most times, these are Greenfield projects where the bulk of the effort is on its design and architecture. Though the existing system may be mature and stable, they will have distinct differences in architecture, feature set, and performance capabilities. Even differences as simple as data types can present a challenge.

Open Source 123

Open Source Database Architecture Design 123

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

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Consumers expect personalized, proactive, and convenient service, which traditional application architectures often struggle to provide. Digitizing internal processes can improve information flow and enhance collaboration among employees. Competitive advantage. Enhanced business operations.

Strategy 172

Strategy Retail DevOps Education 172

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

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover key insights and strategic advice in our article, designed to steer you toward the best cloud solution that fits your company’s priorities. Challenges of Multi-Cloud Although multi-cloud has its benefits, it also presents some obstacles. This enables businesses to fully utilize all the benefits provided by such arrangements.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In the time since it was first presented as an advanced Mesos framework, Titus has transparently evolved from being built on top of Mesos to Kubernetes, handling an ever-increasing volume of containers. The original assumptions and architectural choices were no longer viable. The cache is kept in sync with the current leader process.

Cache 224

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

InfoQ

JULY 8, 2020

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

Processing 93

Processing Design Scalability Architecture 93

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

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

Computer architecture is an important and exciting field of computer science, which enables many other fields (eg. big-data processing, machine learning, quantum computing, and so on). For those of us who pursued computer architecture as a career, this is well understood. Why is that? Should we be alarmed as a community?

Architecture 74

Architecture Open Source Hardware Software Engineering 74

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

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. It’s practically impossible for teams to modernize when they can’t visualize all the dependencies within their infrastructure, processes, and services.

Government 200

Government Infrastructure Programming Cloud 200

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

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In particular, it’s our job to design and build the systems and protocols that enable customers from all over the world to sign up for Netflix with the plan features and incentives that best suit their needs. Introduction and account creation Highlight our value propositions and begin the account creation process.

Engineering 142

Engineering Scalability Architecture Innovation 142

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.

Innovation 52

Innovation Design Architecture Software Architecture 52

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In the process, we changed end-to-end identity propagation within the network of services to use a cryptographically-verifiable token-agnostic identity object. We would need to process authentication tokens (and protocols) further upstream. EAS also covers the read-only processing of tokens to create Passports (more on that later).

Architecture 221

Architecture Latency Servers Website 221

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements.

Availability 85

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 85

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. With one or two occasional exceptions, I’ve spent the past twenty-two years designing for countless clients. I know many designers who work in-house.

Design 94

Design Media C++ Energy 94

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Typically, the servers are configured in a primary/replica configuration, with one server designated as the primary server that handles all incoming requests and the others designated as replica servers that monitor the primary and take over its workload if it fails.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110