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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

Design a photo-sharing platform similar to Instagram where users can upload their photos and share it with their followers. High Level Design. We will use a graph database such as Neo4j to store the information. Component Design. API Design. We have provided the API design of posting an image on Instagram below.

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Resilience Pattern: Circuit Breaker

DZone

The circuit breaker is a design pattern that prevents cascading failures and improves the overall availability and performance of a system. A circuit breaker is a component that monitors the health of a dependency, such as a remote service, an external API, or a database. What Is a Circuit Breaker?

Latency 264
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Securing the Keys to the Kingdom: Exploring the Depths of Privileged Access Management (PAM)

DZone

In the paradigm of zero trust architecture , Privileged Access Management (PAM) is emerging as a key component in a cybersecurity strategy, designed to control and monitor privileged access within an organization.

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Weekend Reading: Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases.

All Things Distributed

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. For a long time, these requirements were almost exclusively served by commercial, proprietary databases.

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Why you should benchmark your database using stored procedures

HammerDB

HammerDB uses stored procedures to achieve maximum throughput when benchmarking your database. HammerDB has always used stored procedures as a design decision because the original benchmark was implemented as close as possible to the example workload in the TPC-C specification that uses stored procedures. What is a stored procedure?

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Easily monitor IBM i with updated Dynatrace extension

Dynatrace

IBM i is designed to integrate seamlessly with legacy and modern applications, allowing businesses to run critical workloads and applications. It also includes various built-in software components for database management, security, and application development. How does the extension work?

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What is application security monitoring?

Dynatrace

Continuously monitoring application behavior, network traffic, and system logs allows teams to identify abnormal or suspicious activities that could indicate a security breach. This approach can determine malicious activity and block it by monitoring the flow of data within the application, all the way from the user to the database.