High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Who's Hiring? NationBuilder — if you’re a systems engineer, SRE or DevOps focused developer and have been looking for a place where you can help other people while still working in tech? We can give that opportunity. Please apply here. Twitch's commerce team in San Francisco is looking to hire senior developers to keep up with rapidly increasing demand for our Subscriptions and Payment platform.

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Ecommerce DevOps Java Metrics 107

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The other week, there were a few articles that came out about Chrome’s NOSCRIPT intervention: an intervention that would disable JavaScript altogether on slow networks. Chrome intervening on behalf of the user when it feels the network is iffy isn’t exactly new. Chrome has several interventions including one that can replace images with placeholders and one that bypasses web fonts on slow connections.

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Network Testing Cache Google 71

The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Are you into video games, because I certainly am. Did you grow up playing the classics on your Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Nintendo 64? I did, and I still can’t get enough of them. If you’re like me and love video games and want to go back to simpler times, you can actually build your own entertainment station that contains a mashup of all the best consoles.

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Games Entertainment Systems Development 52

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

According to Google, a website can lose as many as half its visitors while loading. This means you want to keep load times short and sweet to maximize user experience. However, your MachMetrics reports are showing that your page load times are much too slow. That’s valuable information, but what’s the next step? Now that you know you’re lagging, it’s time to kick your remediation plan into high gear.

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Professor Beekums

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

There’s something deeply ingrained in many developers, including myself, that creates a tendency to over-engineer. Maybe it’s how we’re taught or maybe it’s a natural desire to “future proof” our code. Regardless, this tendency is so strong that even being aware of it is not enough to prevent the behavior. Earlier this year, I was working on a system for helping users filter their emails.

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Nathaniell Schutta

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Full Abstract. Responsible Microservices. These days, you can’t swing a dry erase marker without hitting someone talking about microservices. Developers are studying Eric Evan’s prescient book Domain Driven Design. Teams are refactoring monolithic apps, looking for bounded contexts and defining a ubiquitous language. And while there have been countless articles, videos, and talks to help you convert to microservices, few have spent any appreciable time asking if a given application should be a m

Architecture 40

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The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Something that any application should be concerned with is performance. One way to look at performance is via profiling. Most IDEs and platforms provide tools to profile your application to take a look at detailed system information about various parts of your application. With Android applications you can execute an adb command to generate a very thorough snapshot of the graphics information and that’s what we’re going to look at in this post.

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Performance Systems Development 45

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

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Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

Nathaniell Schutta

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Michael and I got together to talk about my latest book project, Thinking Architecturally ! So you now you listen to my thoughts on being an architect, dealing w/ change, etc. Enjoy and please reach out with feedback!

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Guest Post by Wendy Dessler. Source- Pixabay. When trying to develop a new piece of software or an app, one of the first things a developer has to do is pick a programming language. For years, the debate has raged on regarding which programming language is better, Java or Scala. While some argue that just because Java is older it is better, others believe Scala is better for a variety of reasons.

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O'Reilly Software

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

From chaos architecture to event streaming to leading teams, the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference offers a unique depth and breadth of content. We received more than 200 abstracts for talks for the 2018 O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London—on both expected and surprising topics. We continue to see strong interest in microservices and its related ecosystem, including topics like DevOps and tools like Kubernetes.

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Software Architecture Architecture Software Software 64

Nathaniell Schutta

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Part 5 of my “Responsible Microservices” series is live! Should that be a Microservice? Part 5: Failure Isolation. In the first part of this series , we laid out a set of principles to help you understand when microservices can be a useful architectural choice. We promised follow-up pieces describing each of the factors in more detail. In the fifth post of the series, we explore failure isolation.

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