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What are microservices? An agile architecture for software development

Dynatrace

2020 cemented the reality that modern software development practices require rapid, scalable delivery in response to unpredictable conditions. Microservices are flexible, lightweight, modular software services of limited scope that fit together with other services to deliver full applications. Understanding monolithic architectures.

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What are microservices? An agile architecture for software development

Dynatrace

2020 cemented the reality that modern software development practices require rapid, scalable delivery in response to unpredictable conditions. Microservices are flexible, lightweight, modular software services of limited scope that fit together with other services to deliver full applications. Understanding monolithic architectures.

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Architecture Patterns: Publish/Subscribe

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The Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub) pattern is a widely-used software architecture paradigm, particularly relevant in the design of distributed, messaging-driven systems. The communication framework is decoupled, scalable, and dynamic, making it useful for addressing complex software requirements in modern application development.

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The Agile Architect: Mastering Architectural Observability To Slay Technical Debt

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It's a story as old as ( UNIX ) time — in scene one, we meet an international online retailer whose software infrastructure is based on a sprawling monolithic application. But with this shift, understanding our software architecture on a deeper level while keeping up with the quick pace of release cycles is becoming more challenging.

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Caching Across Layers in Software Architecture

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The purpose of this article is to help readers understand what is caching, the problems it addresses, and how caching can be applied across layers of system architecture to solve some of the challenges faced by modern software systems.

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Dynatrace log collection for ARM unlocks power-efficient architecture for your enterprise

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Without observability, the benefits of ARM are lost Over the last decade and a half, a new wave of computer architecture has overtaken the world. ARM architecture, based on a processor type optimized for cloud and hyperscale computing, has become the most prevalent on the planet, with billions of ARM devices currently in use.

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Architecture Patterns: The Circuit-Breaker

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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.