InfoQ

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Billy Lynch, Zack Newman discuss the architecture and internals of Sigstore and keyless signing, along with the security considerations that drove the design. By Billy Lynch, Zack Newman

Infrastructure 67

Infrastructure Scalability Software Software 67

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

DZone

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

In today's rapidly evolving technology landscape, it's common for applications to migrate to the cloud to embrace the microservice architecture. While this architectural approach offers scalability, reusability, and adaptability, it also presents a unique challenge: effectively managing communication between these microservices.

Systems 274

Systems Virtualization Architecture Scalability 274

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

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

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 98

Architecture Design Scalability Technology 98

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. Origin Shield is a crucial component of the cache tier architecture in a distributed CDN.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

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. ‍Origin Shield is a crucial component of the cache tier architecture in a distributed CDN.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

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

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

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

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

Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

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. What architecture will be optimal for enabling that business vision? How are we going to deliver the new architecture?

Architecture 98

Architecture Design Software Architecture Strategy 98

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

New Architectures (this post). Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. Auto-scaling is often presented as a panacea for performance problems, but, even if it is properly implemented (which is, of course, better to be tested), it just assigns a price tag for performance.

Performance Testing 100

Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

InfoQ

JULY 14, 2023

Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod discuss the internal architecture of Azure Cosmos DB and how it achieves high availability, low latency, and scalability. By Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod Sridharan

Latency 52

Latency Azure Availability Scalability 52

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This presentation showcased the Dynatrace Platform capabilities, leveraging contextual analytics and AI to automate problem solving across observability, security, and business functions. Partners play a crucial role in driving cloud migrations and digital transformation for customers, ensuring return on their investments are realized.

Artificial Intelligence 199

Artificial Intelligence IoT Programming Innovation 199

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

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 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

Strategic Tech

JUNE 2, 2021

Modernizing an architecture usually take years. This presents technology leaders with one of the most difficult modernization challenges: where to start and in which order to modernize? In the Architecture Modernization Sequencing Grid, this is the bottom right corner. Starting with something brand new defers these discoveries.

Architecture 52

Architecture Infrastructure Technology Technology 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Iroro Orife , Chih-Wei Wu and Yun-Ning (Amy) Hung Introduction When you enjoy the latest season of Stranger Things or Casa de Papel (Money Heist) , have you ever wondered about the secrets to fantastic story-telling, besides the stunning visual presentation?

Architecture 224

Architecture Energy Benchmarking Processing 224

Percona Community

MAY 14, 2019

During our presentation at Percona Live 2019 Intel and its software partners will introduce the audience to the work we’re doing to enable an open-source framework, we call Cloud Native Database. This is a collaborative effort between Intel, Rockset, PlanetScale, MariaDB and Percona.

Open Source 52

Open Source Database Cloud Storage 52

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 beautiful, like Venus, inspiring love.

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

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 144

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Best Practices DevOps 144

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

MARCH 22, 2022

That’s why hybrid cloud architecture is a key tool in the arsenal for organizations striving to grow, modernize, and innovate. In a presentation at the Perform 2022 conference, Huetter uses the IBM Z platform to expand on the benefits of using an observability platform to manage hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Infrastructure 232

Infrastructure Cloud Java Azure 232

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2024

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. These tools can turn data into actionable insights. The post What is explainable AI?

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

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

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

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Despite the fact that more than 80% of organizations now employ multicloud architecture, “hyperscaler” clouds such as AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure present monitoring and management issues for cloud practitioners. AWS re:Invent 2021: Modernizing for cloud-native environments. at Venetian Delfino 4006.

AWS 218

AWS Cloud Lambda Azure 218

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

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

High Level Architecture The idea, at a high level, was to avoid the need to query the Atlas database almost entirely and transition most alert queries to streaming evaluation. First and foremost, we have successfully alleviated our initial scalability problem with the polling based architecture. OK, Results?

Storage 288

Storage Cache Metrics Database 288

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Dynatrace has received the ISV Partner of the Year Award for Austria , presented by Amazon Web Services, Inc. This award reflects the worldwide partnership commitment between our companies and recognition of the dedicated work we do together to support customers around the globe.

AWS 194

AWS FinTech Lambda Innovation 194

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

AUGUST 5, 2022

DevSecOps presents organizations that are already practicing DevOps with an alternate, more proactive perspective on security. But as more organizations adopt cloud-native and multicloud architecture, teams are now releasing software more frequently and running into operational complexities, including critical security risks.

DevOps 213

DevOps Cloud Best Practices Open Source 213