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Architecture Patterns: The Circuit-Breaker

DZone

In the world of distributed systems, the likelihood of components failing or becoming unresponsive is higher compared to monolithic systems. Therefore, resilience — the ability of a system to handle and recover from failures — becomes critically important in distributed environments.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably.

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The state of site reliability engineering: SRE challenges and best practices in 2023

Dynatrace

Customer empathy is key to a fully optimized site reliability engineering practice Software engineering can often be an impersonal discipline. Generative AI can also help improve root cause analysis by allowing users to ask specific questions regarding architecture and digital environments.

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Site reliability engineering: 5 things you need to know

Dynatrace

What is site reliability engineering? Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. SRE bridges the gap between Dev and Ops teams.

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

This shift is leading more organizations to hire site reliability engineers to guarantee the reliability and resiliency of their services. How site reliability engineering affects organizations’ bottom line SRE applies the disciplines of software engineering to infrastructure management, both on-premises and in the cloud.

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Contention, Coherency, and Math Behind Software

DZone

Today I want to tell you a few words about how you can describe your system through mathematical equations — at least to some degree. This article is more focused on overall system design and architecture than any other written by me till today — so consider yourself warned.

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Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

Dynatrace

For software engineering teams, this demand means not only delivering new features faster but ensuring quality, performance, and scalability too. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. 2 New roles and responsibilities at Panera Bread .