All Things Distributed

APRIL 11, 2018

I wrote to you over two years ago about what happens under the hood of Amazon ECS. Last year at re:Invent, we launched AWS Fargate , and today, I want to explore how Fargate fundamentally changes the landscape of container technology. I spend a lot of time talking to our customers and leaders at Amazon about innovation. One of the things I've noticed is that ideas and technologies which dramatically change the way we do things are rarely new.

Cloud 149

Cloud AWS Innovation Traffic 149

Software Architecture

APRIL 8, 2018

What Kotlin has that Java does not. So, I was hearing a lot about Kotlin lately and decided to give it a try. It will be fun learning about a new language and maybe I find it useful for some product or app. Kotlin’s official documentation is great and there are many introductory articles to Kotlin language on medium, so I won’t be explaining the basics and syntax but wanted to present some unique features that Java doesn’t have and makes Kotlin stand out. 1.

Java 100

Java Lambda Software Architecture Programming 100

Uber Engineering

APRIL 12, 2018

As the Vice President of Engineering for Uber’s Core Infrastructure group, Matthew Mengerink faces a daunting task. He oversees 350 engineers across four teams tasked with not only maintaining the platform on which 3,500 microservices run, but also figuring out … The post Scaling for Growth: A Q&A with Uber’s VP of Core Infrastructure, Matthew Mengerink appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

Infrastructure 81

Infrastructure Engineering Architecture Cloud 81

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 10, 2018

Enhance overall code quality through a blend of interpersonal communication and tool-based analysis. Software quality takes time. And good quality products come from properly working feedback loops. Timely feedback can mean clarity over confusion; a validation of assumptions can mean shorter development cycles. For example, let’s say you have a project that needs to be delivered next month, but you and your development team know it will take at least two more months to complete.

Software 75

Software Software Best Practices Architecture 75

Speed Curve

APRIL 11, 2018

It's exciting working at SpeedCurve and pushing the envelope on performance monitoring to better measure the user's experience. We believe when it comes to web performance it's important to measure what the user sees and experiences when they interact with your site. A big part of our focus on metrics has been around rendering including comparing TTI to FMP , Hero Rendering , and critical blocking resources.

Traffic 40

Traffic Metrics Monitoring Performance 40

Particular Software

APRIL 9, 2018

While you probably wouldn't expect this from a software infrastructure company, we opened a theme park! Welcome to Particular World. Based on our experience running business systems in production, we know we need to monitor our theme park to make sure it's working properly. Luckily, there are tools in place that let us keep track of electricity and water usage, how much parking we have available, and how much trash the park generates.

Systems 40

Systems Infrastructure Monitoring Tuning 40

The Polyglot Developer

APRIL 9, 2018

When working with single page web applications (SPA), chances are you’re going to be using a router or some kind of parent and child component structure. In these scenarios, the parent components probably hold their own functions and variables that may at some point in time need to be accessed by the child component. Take for example an application that has authentication.

Development 40

Development 40