Tag: Software architecture
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Best practices for event-driven microservice architecture
Posted on February 14, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
While you might have used REST as your service communications layer in the past, more and more projects are moving to an event-driven architecture. Let's dive into the pros and cons of this popular architecture, some of the key design choices it entails, and common anti-patterns. By Jason Skowronski.
Tags microservices event-driven messaging programming software-architecture
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Mathematicians are studying planet-sized Quantum Computers with God-like powers
Posted on February 13, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
New research has exploded the space of problems that quantum computers can efficiently verify, simultaneously knocking down milestone problems in quantum physics and math. By Mordechai Rorvig.
Tags programming software-architecture machine-learning cloud
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Scaling payments for Black Friday 2019
Posted on February 3, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
A blog post about Black Friday's production scalability experience in payments provider company named iyzico. By Yalçın Yenigün.
Tags software-architecture apis web-development agile
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The rise and fall of the OLAP Cube
Posted on January 30, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
One of the biggest shifts in data analytics over the past decade is the move away from building "data cubes", or "OLAP cubes", to running OLAP workloads directly on columnar databases. By Cedric Chin.
Tags big-data data-science miscellaneous database software-architecture
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Here's what I learned about SaaS during my 5 years at Buildium, after it sold for $580M
Posted on January 29, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
I think it's clear that the world of technology start-ups is pretty screwed up when it comes to financial valuations. Only in this world is whether or not your company is profitable so often seen as being of secondary importance. I digress. By Geoff Roberts.
Tags software-architecture startups how-to software
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Exploring an Apache Kafka to Pub/Sub migration: Major considerations
Posted on January 28, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In many cases, Google's Pub/Sub messaging and event distribution service can successfully replace Apache Kafka, with lower maintenance and operational costs, and better integration with other Google Cloud services. By Leonid Yankulin.
Tags software-architecture apache streaming big-data machine-learning google
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Parse, don't validate
Posted on January 21, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
Alexis King wrote this piece about his concise, simple way to explain what it means to practice type-driven design. He has now a single, snappy slogan that encapsulates what type-driven design means to him, and better yet, it's only three words long: Parse, don't validate.
Tags programming functional-programming software-architecture
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faasd: lightweight Serverless for your Raspberry Pi
Posted on January 15, 2020, Level inttermediate Resource Length medium
Kick the tires with faasd today, for a lightweight serverless experience that doesn't require Kubernetes. Instead it uses containerd and the existing OpenFaaS ecosystem. By Alex Ellis.
Tags devops software-architecture containers kubernetes
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How does Alibaba ensure performance of system components in a 10,000-node Kubernetes cluster?
Posted on January 3, 2020, Level advanced Resource Length long
The production environment of Alibaba consists of more than 10,000 containerized applications, with the entire network of Alibaba being a massive system using millions of containers running on more than 100,000 hosts. This is how they run it. By alibaba.com
Tags devops kubernetes cloud containers software-architecture
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How a single Raspberry Pi made my home network faster
Posted on January 2, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The Pi Hole project adds an entire new level of performance and security to our home network. Powered by Docker and a Raspberry PI I can now block all unwanted Ads and Metrics network wide. By Brian Christner.
Tags software iot software-architecture learning
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Go plus services and one goliath project
Posted on December 20, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An article by Kevin Dangoor from Khan Engineering about how Khan Academy is embarking on a huge effort to rebuild our server software on a more modern stack in Go.
Tags management software-architecture apis kubernetes software-architecture kotlin
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Go plus services and one goliath project
Posted on December 20, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An article by Kevin Dangoor from Khan Engineering about how Khan Academy is embarking on a huge effort to rebuild our server software on a more modern stack in Go.
Tags management software-architecture apis kubernetes software-architecture kotlin