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.

Software Architecture 64

Software Architecture Architecture Software Software 64

Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

Yet there is no flowchart we can simply follow to find the optimal design. It’s so easy to get design choices wrong and make things worse instead of making them better. In order to effectively design sociotechnical systems, I recommend using design heuristics. We have the unpredictable nature of markets.

Design 40

Design Architecture Software Architecture Systems 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. The world is still changing, so Google published a new edition: The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines, Third Edition.

Design 54

Design Education Google Internet 54

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

design , Sheng, CIDR’20. ’ design. Software 2.0 , in case you missed it, is a term coined by Andrej Karpathy to describe software in which key components are implemented by neural networks. The existing system was based on a rule-based architecture with hand-crafted rules and had been in production since 2013.

Systems 84

Systems Design Software Software 84

The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

Designing far memory data structures: think outside the box Aguilera et al., Therefore, if we want to make full use of one-sided far memory, we need to think carefully about the design of our data structures to make that access efficient. This makes it challenging to design effective far memory data structures. HotOS’19.

Design 80

Design Cache Hardware Scalability 80

InfoQ

MARCH 7, 2024

Uber replaced a legacy architecture built using the WAMP protocol with a new solution that takes advantage of GraphQL subscriptions. By Rafal Gancarz

Scalability 128

Scalability Architecture Design Development 128

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This is certainly frustrating for a website’s user, but even more so for its owner: in fact, there is a direct correlation between web performance and business revenue which has been corroborated time and again in a plethora of case studies. Let’s explore in a case study how we can effectively combine the power of Astro and Storyblok.

Website 112

Website Performance Ecommerce Technology 112

InfoQ

JANUARY 12, 2024

The revised architecture improved scalability and deployability and reduced resource utilization. The team at lastminute.com rearchitected the search result aggregation process by breaking up the single service into multiple ones and introducing asynchronous integration. By Rafal Gancarz

Scalability 105

Scalability Architecture Processing Development 105

Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

Wondering where RabbitMQ fits into your architecture? This article expands on the most commonly used RabbitMQ use cases, from microservices to real-time notifications and IoT. References RabbitMQ Case Studies RabbitMQ in IoT Solutions Videla, A., & Williams, J. RabbitMQ in Action. Manning Publications.

Ecommerce 130

Ecommerce IoT Games Scalability 130

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

This is such a fundamental difference, that many architectural choices from native platforms don’t easily apply to the web — if at all. JavaScript was designed to run in lock-step with the browser’s main rendering loop. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. But regardless of where you look, multithreading is used everywhere.

Games 145

Games Architecture Code C++ 145

InfoQ

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Contentsquare needed notification functionality for many use cases within its platform. The company created a generic solution spanning multiple services as part of its microservice architecture. During the implementation, the developers had to improve observability and overcome some scalability challenges. By Rafal Gancarz

Scalability 108

Scalability Architecture Development Design 108

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? They will provide a unique point of view when building features with designers and stakeholders.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

O'Reilly Software

JANUARY 29, 2020

Get a comprehensive overview and hands-on training on software architecture's many aspects. The sessions at the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference reflect this fact. Fundamentals of software architecture (Mark Richards). Design and build great APIs (Mike Amundsen). Sunday/Monday, Feb. Monday 9:00 a.m. Monday, Feb.

Software Architecture 12

Software Architecture Architecture Software Software 12

InfoQ

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Surabhi Diwan discusses how the Netflix’ membership team outgrew many of its technology and architectural choices as memberships went from a few hundred thousand to 200 million. By Surabhi Diwan

Architecture 71

Architecture Technology Technology Design 71

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2019

Even analysts like Forrester who wrote a non-commissioned case study on our successful transformation. ” So, we began designing a repeatable solution to this challenge, represented in our ACM methodology below. Over time, our story resonated with our customers, partners. It got us thinking: “Why is that?”

Cloud 148

Cloud DevOps Strategy Monitoring 148

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 1, 2018

In Microservice Architecture , authors Mike Amundsen, Irakli Nadareishvili, Ronnie Mitra, and Matt McLarty add detail to the definition by outlining traits microservice applications share: Small in size. think in these terms: the smaller the service, the more you maximize the benefits and downsides of microservice architecture.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Code Systems 80

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Microservices architecture combines loosely-coupled functions to create high-performing applications. The emergence of DevOps and continuous integration (CI) and continuous development (CD) pipelines has fundamentally changed the nature of software design, development, and deployment. OpenShift, DevOps, and CI/CD. What is OpenShift?

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2022

Due to the way our calendars played out, it was me who initially began designing the two workshops. I was very keen to get feedback on the design, so as soon as Dan was available we went through my workshop draft. I asked Dan how he would have designed the workshop, and that sparked a conversation about consulting vs facilitation.

Strategy 52

Strategy Design Engineering Architecture 52

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Security : Hopefully there’s a team or individual with deep knowledge about security that help us reviewing system designs, implementations, and informs us about reports or and security patches. UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture.

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

InfoQ

MARCH 25, 2022

Selina Liu walks through what it takes to decompose a large and complex monolith into independent, performant services, and how they evolve and scale the architecture with changing business needs. By Selina Liu.

Architecture 59

Architecture Performance Design Scalability 59

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker.

Website 133

Website Design Network Testing 133

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Based on the data provided by divante ’s findings on 30 PWA case studies, progressive web apps have a 36% larger mobile conversion rate than native applications. The Design Gives Ground For Utmost Usability.

Code 76

Code Cache Retail Mobile 76

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Bainbridge believed that automation designers were in denial about this, however. As she saw it, designers approached the problem of automation as if the human factor were not , in fact, a factor. These are just a few of the questions a designer must anticipate and control for. But RPA is different.

Processing 82

Processing Programming Virtualization Technology 82

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

With its support for MySQL and PostgreSQL, and its automated replication and backup capabilities, it’s designed to deliver high performance, scalability, and availability to meet the needs of mission-critical applications. This eliminates the need for complex or scripted backup procedures and designated backup windows.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Case Study: Image Component In A Jamstack Site. And while optimizing images is a must in any application, in the Jamstack ecosystem, it is even more paramount, considering that one of the main goals of the Jamstack architecture is to improve web performance. The change of design. Fixes To Common Problems. Conclusion.

Media 109

Media Cache Website Mobile 109

InfoQ

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Zendesk reduced its data storage costs by over 80% by migrating from DynamoDB to a tiered storage solution using MySQL and S3. The company considered different storage technologies and decided to combine the relational database and the object store to strike a balance between querybility and scalability while keeping the costs down.

Storage 137

Storage Scalability Database Technology 137

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. In particular, we built this system on top of Oracle Coherence and designed our own data structures and indexes. In particular, we built this system on top of Oracle Coherence and designed our own data structures and indexes.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. Each stage has its unique challenges and potential pitfalls, as other case studies show. SEO is key to our success.

Performance 75

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

InfoQ

JULY 9, 2024

Zhen Zhou discusses how they built/test an on-demand notification system, what it takes to manage cloud resources/site-reliability at the same time, and how to mitigate reliability issues. By Zhen Zhou

Cloud 92

Cloud Testing Systems Design 92

InfoQ

APRIL 12, 2024

Yao Yue recapitulates scaling a project at Twitter while summarizing some key lessons learned about effective performance engineering. By Yao Yue

Engineering 101

Engineering Performance Design Scalability 101

SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Azure Cosmos DB: design patterns and case studies – Andrew Liu. If anything just come to see me explain the architecture which is an amazing innovative piece of software. Should be fun to speak together with Conor. Maximise compute performance with Azure SQL Data Warehouse – More JRJ on Azure DW.

Engineering 40

Engineering Azure Best Practices Servers 40

InfoQ

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Monzo developed a solution for shedding traffic in case its platform comes under intense and unexpected load that could lead to an outage. Traffic spikes can be generated by the mobile app and triggered by push notifications or other bursts in user activity.

Traffic 62

Traffic Mobile Development Availability 62

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Many articles and case studies published during the last decade successfully achieve the balance between abstract models and machine learning. Although these problems are very different, we are trying to establish a common framework that helps to design optimization and data mining tasks required for solutions.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

InfoQ

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Phil Calçado explores how they dealt with the hyper growth phase and what are the changes and initiatives they have put in place to make sure that they keep growing and pushing the envelope. By Phil Calçado

Design 52

Design Scalability Architecture Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. How to get there?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Servers 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about.

Performance 105

Performance Cache Network Metrics 105

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. How to get there?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145