DZone

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Learn more about backpressure, a technique in distributed systems to prevent overload and cascading failures by controlling the flow of requests.

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Systems 278

DZone

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Have you ever wondered how large-scale systems handle millions of requests seamlessly while ensuring speed, reliability, and scalability? Behind every high-performing application whether its a search engine, an e-commerce platform, or a real-time messaging service lies a well-thought-out system design.

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DZone

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That means it's important that software systems are dependable, robust, and resilient. Resilient systems can withstand failures or errors without completely crashing. It lets systems keep working properly even when problems occur. We'll also discuss core principles and strategies for building fault-tolerant systems.

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DZone

JULY 1, 2024

Netflix's system architecture emphasizes how important it is to determine how content is shaped in the future. Ever wondered how Netflix keeps you glued to your screen with uninterrupted streaming bliss? Netflix Architecture is responsible for the smooth streaming experience that attracts viewers worldwide behind the scenes.

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DZone

JUNE 20, 2024

In the vast realm of software development, there's a pursuit for software systems that are not only robust and efficient but can also "heal" themselves. Self-healing software systems represent a significant stride towards automation and resilience. 4 Key Strategies for Building Self-Healing Software Systems 1.

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DZone

AUGUST 27, 2024

This was manifested in systems designs as well where we pushed these biases when designing systems. “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results” - Source unknown As you can see in the quote above, humans have this tendency to retry things even when results are not going to change.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

These releases often assumed ideal conditions such as zero latency, infinite bandwidth, and no network loss, as highlighted in Peter Deutsch’s eight fallacies of distributed systems. With Dynatrace, teams can seamlessly monitor the entire system, including network switches, database storage, and third-party dependencies.

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DZone

OCTOBER 2, 2024

By the end of this guide, you’ll have a comprehensive understanding of database sharding, enabling you to implement it effectively in your systems. This section will provide insights into the architecture and strategies to ensure efficient query processing in a sharded environment.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Regarding contemporary software architecture, distributed systems have been widely recognized for quite some time as the foundation for applications with high availability, scalability, and reliability goals. Spring Boot Overview One of the most popular Java EE frameworks for creating apps is Spring.

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InfoQ

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Discover how Livi navigated the complexities of transitioning MJog, a legacy healthcare system, to a cloud-native architecture, sharing valuable insights for successful tech modernization. Our experience illustrates that transitioning from legacy systems to cloud-based microservices is not a one-time project but an ongoing journey.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

The system is inconsistent, slow, hallucinatingand that amazing demo starts collecting digital dust. Two big things: They bring the messiness of the real world into your system through unstructured data. When your system is both ingesting messy real-world data AND producing nondeterministic outputs, you need a different approach.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In fact, observability is essential for shaping how we design smarter, more resilient systems for the future. As an open-source project, OpenTelemetry sets standards for telemetry data sets and works with a wide range of systems and platforms to collect and export telemetry data to backend systems. OpenTelemetry Collector 1.0

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

There’s a goldmine of business data traversing your IT systems, yet most of it remains untapped. Other data sources, including APIs and log files — are used to expand access, often to external or proprietary systems. In fact, it’s likely that some of your critical business systems already write business data to log files.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Failures in a distributed system are a given, and having the ability to safely retry requests enhances the reliability of the service. Implementing idempotency would likely require using an external system for such keys, which can further degrade performance or cause race conditions.

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DZone

JANUARY 10, 2025

My own journey of redesigning numerous systems and optimizing their performance has taught me time and again that creating a truly low-maintenance backend is an art that goes far beyond simple technical implementation. Developers could understand and manage the entire systems intricacies.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Part 3: System Strategies and Architecture By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques This blog post is a continuation of Part 2 , where we cleared the ambiguity around title launch observability at Netflix. The request schema for the observability endpoint.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

By Ko-Jen Hsiao , Yesu Feng and Sudarshan Lamkhede Motivation Netflixs personalized recommender system is a complex system, boasting a variety of specialized machine learned models each catering to distinct needs including Continue Watching and Todays Top Picks for You. Refer to our recent overview for more details).

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 6, 2025

In this case, the main stakeholders are: - Title Launch Operators Role: Responsible for setting up the title and its metadata into our systems. In this context, were focused on developing systems that ensure successful title launches, build trust between content creators and our brand, and reduce engineering operational overhead.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Manage the complexity of authorization systems Most modern authorization systems provide access management using Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC). The system demands significant effort to design, manage, and maintain, especially as an organization’s needs evolve.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The Federal Reserve Regulation HH in the United States focuses on operational resilience requirements for systemically important financial market utilities. Proactive systems like Dynatrace’s Davis AI can automate responses to threats, swiftly implementing remediation while keeping executives informed of actions taken and their impact.

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DZone

JANUARY 10, 2025

SQL Server is a powerful relational database management system (RDBMS), but as datasets grow in size and complexity, optimizing their performance becomes critical. Leveraging AI can revolutionize query optimization and predictive maintenance, ensuring the database remains efficient, secure, and responsive.

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DZone

OCTOBER 21, 2024

It is common for microservice systems to run more than one instance of each service. This is needed to enforce resiliency. It is therefore important to distribute the load between those instances. The component that does this is the load balancer. Spring provides a Spring Cloud Load Balancer library.

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DZone

JANUARY 7, 2025

Twilio is a call management system that provides excellent call recording capabilities, but often organizations are in need of automatically downloading and storing these recordings locally or in their preferred cloud storage. Use Cases When working with call management systems like Twilio , we might need to:

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DZone

JANUARY 8, 2025

API resilience is about creating systems that can recover gracefully from disruptions, such as network outages or sudden traffic spikes, ensuring they remain reliable and secure. This has become critical since APIs serve as the backbone of todays interconnected systems.

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DZone

JANUARY 3, 2025

This is where observability comes into play, offering critical insights into how your system is performing and why issues occur. But the way containers are continuously created and destroyed can sometimes present challenges with monitoring.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

In the realm of modern software architecture, middleware plays a pivotal role in connecting various components of distributed systems. Efficient database operations in middleware can dramatically improve overall system performance, reduce latency, and enhance user experience.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Clearly, continuing to depend on siloed systems, disjointed monitoring tools, and manual analytics is no longer sustainable. AI systems that can explain the reasons for their recommendations grounded in causal AI can go a long way in resolving general distrust of AI models.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 29, 2024

By automating root-cause analysis, TD Bank reduced incidents, speeding up resolution times and maintaining system reliability. To improve this, they turned to Dynatrace for AI-driven automation to accelerate problem detection and resolution. The result? This ability to innovate faster has given TD Bank a competitive edge in a complex market.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

To achieve this, we are committed to building robust systems that deliver comprehensive observability, enabling us to take full accountability for every title on ourservice. Each title represents countless hours of effort and creativity, and our systems need to honor that uniqueness. Yet, these pages couldnt be more different.

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DZone

OCTOBER 17, 2024

It makes sense: in a world where developers – rather than operations teams – are keeping applications up and running, and where systems are highly distributed, ephemeral, and interconnected, how can you take the same approach you have in the past?

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DZone

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In this guide, we’ll walk through the implementation of an LSM tree in Golang , discuss features such as Write-Ahead Logging ( WAL ), block compression, and BloomFilters , and compare it with more traditional key-value storage systems and indexing strategies.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

When deployed on bare-metal clusters or cloud VMs, database administrators are responsible for adding and removing nodes in a clustered system, planning the changes at times of low load to minimize disruption to production workloads.

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DZone

MARCH 19, 2025

Event-driven architecture (EDA) gives your system the ability to receive and respond to changes in real time, making it easier to scale. This approach makes systems reactive, scalable, and resilient to failures. This design keeps the components independent of each other, making the system easier to scale and maintain.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

It requires a state-of-the-art system that can track and process these impressions while maintaining a detailed history of each profiles exposure. In this multi-part blog series, we take you behind the scenes of our system that processes billions of impressions daily.

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DZone

JANUARY 30, 2025

Unit tests help to check the correctness of newly written logic as well as prevent a system from regression by testing old logic every time (preferably with every build). Unit testing is an essential part of software development. However, there are two different approaches (or schools) to writing unit tests: Classical (a.k.a

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. This technique facilitates validation on multiple fronts.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

System resilience stands as the key requirement for e-commerce platforms during scaling operations to keep services operational and deliver performance excellence to users. We have developed a microservices architecture platform that encounters sporadic system failures when faced with heavy traffic events.

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