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Sacrificial Architecture: Case Studies

DZone

Of course, it may bring a bit of frustration that the previous work "goes to the rubbish bin", but in reality this know-know that you got, these lessons that you learned to lead you to develop a much more powerful and scalable product, using the latest and fastest technologies.

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Uber Builds Scalable Chat Using Microservices with GraphQL Subscriptions and Kafka

InfoQ

The main drivers for creating a new architecture were challenges around reliability, scalability, observability/debugibility, as well as technical debt impeding the team’s ability to maintain the existing solution. By Rafal Gancarz

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Hashnode Creates Scalable Feed Architecture on AWS with Step Functions, EventBridge and Redis

InfoQ

Hashnode created a scalable event-driven architecture (EDA) for composing feed data for thousands of users. The company used serverless services on AWS, including Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, and Redis Cache. The solution leverages Step Functions' distributed maps feature that enables high-concurrency processing. By Rafal Gancarz

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How Data Inspires Building a Scalable, Resilient and Secure Cloud Infrastructure At Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Ten years on: How Netflix completed a historic cloud migration with AWS Amazon Fleet Management: Meet the Man Who Keeps Amazon Servers Running, No Matter What | Amazon Web Services ADS Framework at Palantir Building a SOCless detection team Lessons Learned in Detection Engineering Engineering Trade-Offs and The Netflix API Re-Architecture Evolving (..)

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Zendesk Moves from DynamoDB to MySQL and S3 to Save over 80% in Costs

InfoQ

The company considered different storage technologies and decided to combine the relational database and the object store to strike a balance between querybility and scalability while keeping the costs down. Zendesk reduced its data storage costs by over 80% by migrating from DynamoDB to a tiered storage solution using MySQL and S3.

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Apica Helps HBO Deliver Infinite Streaming Scalability

Apica

The key to a successful launch of the new service was ensuring instant scalability to support viewer demand. In searching for a partner, HBO was impressed by Apica’s load testing capabilities including our proven performance in platform scalability and extensive experience in advanced enterprise testing.

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Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook

High Scalability

SLO Engineering Case Studies. What makes this book a tour de force are all the examples and case studies. In Chapter 3— SLO Engineering Case Studies —Evernote and The Home Depot tell the story of their journey into SRE. Implementing SLOs. Monitoring. Alerting on SLOs. Eliminating Toil.

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