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Architecture Patterns: The Circuit-Breaker

DZone

Much like how an electrical circuit breaker prevents an overload by stopping the flow of electricity when excessive current is detected, the Circuit Breaker pattern in software engineering stops the flow of requests to a service when the number of failures exceeds a predefined threshold.

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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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Connect your software with the right people: Ownership drives effective collaboration

Dynatrace

Searching for the right people can take time, especially in large and complex software environments. Incident management with clearly defined responsibilities Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) are challenged not only to detect problems and identify the root cause quickly but also to remediate problems immediately.

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Contention, Coherency, and Math Behind Software

DZone

This article is more focused on overall system design and architecture than any other written by me till today — so consider yourself warned. Additionally, I want to show you laws and their mathematical equations that can help you calculate the impact of these 3 mechanics on your application.

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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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Automated observability, security, and reliability at scale

Dynatrace

Dynatrace Configuration as Code enables complete automation of the Dynatrace platform’s configuration, ensuring that software is secure and reliable. As software development grows more complex, managing components using an automated onboarding process becomes increasingly important.

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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.