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The Next Major Shift in Enterprise Software Engineering: From Platforms to “Platformless”

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The evolution of enterprise software engineering has been marked by a series of "less" shifts — from client-server to web and mobile ("client-less"), data center to cloud ("data-center-less"), and app server to serverless.

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Mastering System Design: A Comprehensive Guide to System Scaling for Millions (Part 1)

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A transformative journey into the realm of system design with our tutorial, tailored for software engineers aspiring to architect solutions that seamlessly scale to serve millions of users.

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What Is Load Testing? Ensuring Robust System Performance Under Pressure

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While load testing may sound like an esoteric domain exclusive to software engineers or network administrators, it is, in fact, a silent superhero in our increasingly digital world. Acting behind the scenes, load testing ensures the apps and websites we use daily are capable of withstanding the demands of their users without stumbling.

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How to Trace Linux System Calls in Production (Without Breaking Performance)

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If you need to dynamically trace Linux process system calls, you might first consider strace. strace is simple to use and works well for issues such as "Why can't the software run on this machine?" So are there any tools that excel at tracing system calls in a production environment? The answer is YES.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

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There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. They prefer to work in isolation and just deliver.

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Architecture Patterns: The Circuit-Breaker

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In the world of distributed systems, the likelihood of components failing or becoming unresponsive is higher compared to monolithic systems. Therefore, resilience — the ability of a system to handle and recover from failures — becomes critically important in distributed environments.

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A Note to Business Leaders on Software Engineering

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Software development is not an established discipline where there is a clear technique used to solve any given problem. In fact, there are near infinite ways to solve every software engineering challenging. However, as software systems age, the time it takes to add new features grows exponentially?—?and