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Architecture Patterns: The Circuit-Breaker

DZone

Much like how an electrical circuit breaker prevents an overload by stopping the flow of electricity when excessive current is detected, the Circuit Breaker pattern in software engineering stops the flow of requests to a service when the number of failures exceeds a predefined threshold.

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All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

The Netflix TechBlog

1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. 1: Migration of traffic from fixed-ladder encodes to DO encodes. Join us and be a part of the amazing team that brought you this tech-blog; open positions: Software Engineer, Cloud Gaming Software Engineer, Live Streaming References [1] L.

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

This shift is leading more organizations to hire site reliability engineers to guarantee the reliability and resiliency of their services. How site reliability engineering affects organizations’ bottom line SRE applies the disciplines of software engineering to infrastructure management, both on-premises and in the cloud.

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Automated observability, security, and reliability at scale

Dynatrace

Dynatrace Configuration as Code enables complete automation of the Dynatrace platform’s configuration, ensuring that software is secure and reliable. As software development grows more complex, managing components using an automated onboarding process becomes increasingly important.

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Protect your organization against zero-day vulnerabilities

Dynatrace

Zero day refers to security vulnerabilities that are discovered in software when teams had “zero days” to work on an update or a patch to remediate the issue and, hence, are already at risk. If a malicious attacker can identify a key software vulnerability, they can exploit the vulnerability, allowing them to gain access to your systems.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 5th, 2018

High Scalability

antirez : "After 20 years as a software engineer, I've started commenting heavily. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. I used to comment sparingly. What made me change was a combination of reading the SQLite and Redis codebases" <3 false myth: code should be auto-explaining.

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AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

Dynatrace

EC2 is ideally suited for large workloads with constant traffic. To gain insight into these problems, software engineers typically deploy application instrumentation frameworks that provide insight into applications and code. AWS Lambda. AWS monitoring best practices.