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Microservices vs. Monolith at a Startup: Making the Choice

DZone

This decision, seemingly technical at its core, extends far beyond the area of coding, straight into the strategic planning that can make or break the early stages of a startup. The allure of a microservice architecture is understandable in today's tech state of affairs, where scalability, flexibility, and independence are highly valued.

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Article: Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s Exabyte-Scale Blob Storage System

InfoQ

A horizontally scalable exabyte-scale blob storage system which operates out of multiple regions, Magic Pocket is used to store all of Dropbox’s data. Adopting SMR technology and erasure codes, the system has extremely high durability guarantees but is cheaper than operating in the cloud. By Facundo Agriel

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Free Google Book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems

High Scalability

Google added another book into their excellent SRE series: Building Secure and Reliable Systems. Copy/pasting a few paragraphs: "In this book we talk generally about systems, which is a conceptual way of thinking about the groups of components that cooperate to perform some function. It's free to download, so don't be shy.

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Sustainable IT: Optimize your hybrid-cloud carbon footprint

Dynatrace

Evaluating these on three levels—data center, host, and application architecture (plus code)—is helpful. Options at each level offer significant potential benefits, especially when complemented by practices that influence the design and purchase decisions made by IT leaders and individual contributors. We encourage you to take a look.

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Accelerate and empower Site Reliability Engineering with Dynatrace observability

Dynatrace

Process Improvements (50%) The allocation for process improvements is devoted to automation and continuous improvement SREs help to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, and efficient. SREs invest significant effort in enhancing software reliability, scalability, and dependability. However, this is highly unlikely.

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Driving your FinOps strategy with observability best practices

Dynatrace

Following FinOps practices, engineering, finance, and business teams take responsibility for their cloud usage, making data-driven spending decisions in a scalable and sustainable manner. Suboptimal architecture design. Poorly designed cloud solutions can become costly over time.

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DBaaS Pros & Cons

Scalegrid

As CTOs, database developers & experts, and DBAs seek more efficient, secure, and scalable cloud services solutions, DBaaS emerges as a compelling choice. This surge aligns with the 62% of companies reporting substantial data growth, underscoring the escalating need for scalable and agile database solutions.