Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Team Topologies has significantly advanced the discussion on organisation design for technology companies. I’m not precious about any of the definition used in this article. My goal is to create common ground so that we can discuss the trade-offs of organisational design patterns. The answer is all of them.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language. But these are definitely ruled out for enterprise applications due to the complexity in development, maintainability, need for object orientation, and interoperability.

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 1, 2018

Sam Newman provides a succinct definition of microservices in Building Microservices : “Microservices are small, autonomous services that work together.”. think in these terms: the smaller the service, the more you maximize the benefits and downsides of microservice architecture. From Microservice Architecture. ).

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Meson was based on a single leader architecture with high availability. We want users to rely on shared templates and reuse their workflow definitions across their team, saving time and effort on creating the same functionality. Figure 1 shows the high-level architecture. With the high growth of workflows in the past few years?

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. This is my tailored view of it; others will have different definitions. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved. It must be useful, have utility.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

In a federated graph architecture, how can we answer such a query given that each entity is served by its own service? The Studio Search platform was designed to take a portion of the federated graph, a subgraph rooted at an entity of interest, and make it searchable. Data Mesh streams are schematized with Avro.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

You are designing a learning system to forecast Service Level Agreement (SLA) violations and would want to factor in all upstream dependencies and corresponding historical states. Design a flexible data model ? —?Represent Therefore, the ingestion approach for data lineage is designed to work with many disparate data sources.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

To do so Netflix’s design required: An event based mechanism that could ingest information about application autoscaling groups. What was problematic about this design? Their attributes are used to scope permissions to varying degrees. A cleanup process to prune stale relationships from the database.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The fact is, Reliability and Resiliency must be rooted in the architecture of a distributed system. The email walked through how our Dynatrace self-monitoring notified users of the outage but automatically remediated the problem thanks to our platform’s architecture. Conclusion: Investing in resilient architecture is CONTINUOUS.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

Annotations Sometimes people describe annotations as tags but that is a limited definition. Marken architecture Above picture represents the block diagram of the architecture for our service. Our architecture makes it possible to easily onboard and ingest data from Media algorithms.

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2020

Microservice design principles force people to think along a spectrum of loose coupling. Introduces the Dynatrace long-term design pattern for full-stack observability, described below. Extensible admission lets us change the definition of a pod after the pod is authorized but before it’s scheduled to run. Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

Data Mesh Overview A New Definition Of Data Mesh Previously, we defined Data Mesh as a fully managed, streaming data pipeline product used for enabling Change Data Capture (CDC) use cases. Overall Architecture The Data Mesh system can be divided into the control plane (Data Mesh Controller) and the data plane (Data Mesh Pipeline).

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While data lakes and data warehousing architectures are commonly used modes for storing and analyzing data, a data lakehouse is an efficient third way to store and analyze data that unifies the two architectures while preserving the benefits of both. This data lands in its original, raw form without requiring schema definition.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

Today we’re proud to announce the new Dynatrace Operator, designed from the ground up to handle the lifecycle of OneAgent, Kubernetes API monitoring, OneAgent traffic routing, and all future containerized componentry such as the forthcoming extension framework. Other Dynatrace components, like ActiveGate, are deployed separately.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In this post, we dive deep into how Netflix’s KV abstraction works, the architectural principles guiding its design, the challenges we faced in scaling diverse use cases, and the technical innovations that have allowed us to achieve the performance and reliability required by Netflix’s global operations.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. When a company’s digital representation lacks a dedicated UX/UI design team, it can be hard to produce something that stands out from the crowd. That’s why you need a good UI/UX designer. Nataliya Sambir. And vice versa.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Plus, the architecture of the Edge tier was evolving to a PaaS (platform as a service) model, and we had some tough decisions to make about how, and where, to handle identity token handling. The system architecture now takes the form of: Notice that tokens never traverse past the Edge gateway / EAS boundary. We are serving over 2.5

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Since then, the video pipeline has undergone substantial improvements and broad expansions: Starting with Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) at Standard-Definitions , we expanded the encoding pipeline to 4K and High Dynamic Range (HDR) which enabled support for our premium offering.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

Group Patterns The following list is as a sample of archetypical patterns rather than a definitive list. However, a structured model with clear definitions can help your company to define guidelines that make sense in your context. Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

If you start catching bugs early, it will save you tons of time fixing them later.nn> Design reviewnnIt’s a very powerful tool when used in a good way. I really like what one of the smartest people with whom I worked said: “A good design is a design where you can see the code”. You may think that you know how the system works.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 10, 2020

If every significant architecture decision has business consequences, then knowing the business model and which trade-offs to choose is maybe the most important skill of architects. But what is the actual relationship between a business model and a software architecture? It’s not just about business models and architecture, though.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

As organizations adopt microservices-based architecture , service-level objectives (SLOs) have become a vital way for teams to set specific, measurable targets that ensure users are receiving agreed-upon service levels. To get a better handle on this, let’s start with some definitions. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

But “the benefits are definitely worth the effort, provided you do it in a strategic way,” Bollampally said. These range from the simple lift-and-shift re-hosting approach to the significant architectural changes involved in refactoring. For each on-premises application, Tractor Supply Co.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In particular, it’s our job to design and build the systems and protocols that enable customers from all over the world to sign up for Netflix with the plan features and incentives that best suit their needs. Plans & Offers Definitions Let’s define what a plan and an offer is at Netflix.

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Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2020

It would definitely make my life easier! I wanted a rather lightweight design that is yet versatile. Although there are tons of API gateway libraries for golang out there, most of them are designed for a different use case. Able to detect and adopt any new or removed Dynatrace Environment automatically. Food for thought.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Domain-Driven Design is an approach to designing systems, usually software, that emphasises creating a common language between domain experts and system builders. However, some concepts in DDD do not have a clear definition and are highly implicit. This definition of a domain is very fuzzy. Thank you to all involved.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This article will list some of the use cases of AutoOptimize, discuss the design principles that help enhance efficiency, and present the high-level architecture. Other than these principles, there are some other design considerations to support and enable: Multi-tenancy with database and table prioritization.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Alexey Brodovitch. Inspired Design Decisions: Alexey Brodovitch. Before writing Art Direction for the Web , I began to study Alexey Brodovitch when I became fascinated by editorial and magazine design. This book will make a fabulous addition to your design collection. Andrew Clarke.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

Today, I want to explore the Amazon ECS architecture and what this architecture enables. This architecture affords Amazon ECS high availability, low latency, and high throughput because the data store is never pessimistically locked. task definition). Let’s talk about what Amazon ECS is actually doing.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Generative AI can also help improve root cause analysis by allowing users to ask specific questions regarding architecture and digital environments. We’ll see lots of different types of impact versus one definitive impact [from generative AI],” she said. Access to quick, reliable answers fosters rapid learning among teams.

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Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Microservices have become the dominant architectural paradigm for building large-scale distributed systems, but until now, their inner workings at major tech companies have remained shrouded in mystery. Meta's microservices architecture encompasses over 18,500 active services running across more than 12 million service instances.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Practically everybody is doing domain-driven design in some form. It was before my time, but my understanding is that reason Eric Evans wrote the Domain-Driven Design (DDD) book in the early 2000s was to encourage better domain-driven design (ddd) practices in that era. What is domain-driven design (ddd)?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 18, 2019

In my colleague Andi Grabner’s recent blog on Automated Deployment and Architectural Validation, he notes that, based on a recent ACM survey , validating deployment still seems to be a semi-automated task for most software delivery teams. “All configuration and pipeline” definition itself is designed to live in source control.

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Architecture DevOps Open Source Java 133

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

A strict definition of “cloud” must also include software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings of all kinds—including email (Google G Suite email; Microsoft Exchange Online), office productivity suites (Google Docs and Sheets; Microsoft Office 365), and similar offerings.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Before designing a solution it’s important to understand the main product requirements for such a feature: The content needs to be new, relevant, and regional (not all countries have the same catalogue). To support the demands of our stakeholders we designed a Domain Specific Language (DSL) that we call an asset generation recipe.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In this blog post, I will explain how these three new capabilities empower you to build applications with distributed systems architecture and create responsive, reliable, and high-performance applications using DynamoDB that work at any scale. DynamoDB Streams simplifies and improves this design pattern with a distributed systems approach.

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