DZone

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Mainframe architecture refers to the design and structure of a mainframe computer system, which is a powerful and reliable computing platform used for large-scale data processing, transaction processing, and enterprise applications.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

As a result, organizations are weighing microservices vs. monolithic architecture to improve software delivery speed and quality. Traditional monolithic architectures are built around the concept of large applications that are self-contained, independent, and incorporate myriad capabilities. What is monolithic architecture?

Architecture 263

Architecture DevOps Monitoring Programming 263

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Protect data in multi-tenant architectures To bring you the most value by unifying observability and security in one analytics and automation platform powered by AI, Dynatrace SaaS leverages a multitenancy architecture, enabling efficient and scalable data ingestion, querying, and processing on shared infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Many organizations are taking a microservices approach to IT architecture. However, in some cases, an organization may be better suited to another architecture approach. Therefore, it’s critical to weigh the advantages of microservices against its potential issues, other architecture approaches, and your unique business needs.

Architecture 246

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DZone

JANUARY 26, 2024

A messaging system serves as a backbone, allowing information transmission between different services or modules in a distributed architecture. The cornerstone is a well-designed and painstakingly built messaging system, which allows for smooth communication and data exchange across diverse components.

Scalability 264

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This year’s AWS re:Invent will showcase a suite of new AWS and Dynatrace integrations designed to enhance cloud performance, security, and automation. The rapid evolution of cloud technology continues to shape how businesses operate and compete. This solution aligns to the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

At financial services company, Soldo, efficiency and security by design are paramount goals. Because Soldo is in a highly regulated industry, Domenella’s team adopted security by design from the beginning. What is security by design? The most efficient one we found was Dynatrace.”

Design 264

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This article will explore the concept of multi-layered caching from both architectural and development perspectives, focusing on real-world applications like Instagram, and provide insights into designing and implementing an efficient multi-layered cache system.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For more: Read the Report Employing cloud services can incur a great deal of risk if not planned and designed correctly. This is an article from DZone's 2023 Observability and Application Performance Trend Report. In fact, this is really no different than the challenges that are inherit within a single on-premises data center implementation.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

RabbitMQ is designed for flexible routing and message reliability, while Kafka handles high-throughput event streaming and real-time data processing. This article outlines the key differences in architecture, performance, and use cases to help determine the best fit for your workload. What is RabbitMQ? What is Apache Kafka?

Latency 147

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2023

Creating an ecosystem that facilitates data security and data privacy by design can be difficult, but it’s critical to securing information. When organizations focus on data privacy by design, they build security considerations into cloud systems upfront rather than as a bolt-on consideration.

Design 246

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InfoQ

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

At QCon San Francisco 2024, software architecture is front and center, with two tracks dedicated to exploring some of the largest and most complex architectures today. Join senior software practitioners as they provide inspiration and practical lessons for architects seeking to tackle issues at a massive scale. By Artenisa Chatziou

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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.

Healthcare 99

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DZone

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub) pattern is a widely-used software architecture paradigm, particularly relevant in the design of distributed, messaging-driven systems. The communication framework is decoupled, scalable, and dynamic, making it useful for addressing complex software requirements in modern application development.

Architecture 193

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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 response schema for the observability endpoint.

Traffic 180

Traffic Strategy Entertainment Innovation 180

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Alibaba has constructed a sophisticated microservices architecture to address the challenges of serving its vast user base and handling complex business operations.

Architecture 59

Architecture Strategy Scalability Design 59

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Building the dream package Observability for Developers, the newly introduced offering from Dynatrace, is designed to cater to developers’ specific needs and challenges. Additionally, Dynatrace integrates relevant trace data, providing full visibility into complex, microservices-based architectures.

Development 235

Development Analytics Code Architecture 235

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

How can we achieve a similar functionality when designing our gRPC APIs? Add FieldMask to the Request Message Instead of creating one-off “include” fields, API designers can add field_mask field to the request message: [link] Consumers can set paths for the fields they expect to receive in the response.

Design 246

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

By Ricky Gardiner , Alex Borysov Background In our previous post , we discussed how we utilize FieldMask as a solution when designing our APIs so that consumers can request the data they need when fetched via gRPC. API designers should aim for simplicity, but make their APIs open for extension and evolution.

Design 240

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 2, 2025

To create a CPU core that can execute a large number of instructions in parallel, it is necessary to improve both the architecturewhich includes the overall CPU design and the instruction set architecture (ISA) designand the microarchitecture, which refers to the hardware design that optimizes instruction execution.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 6, 2025

To address this, we introduced the term Title Health, a concept designed to help us communicate effectively and capture the nuances of maintaining each titles visibility and performance. Up next In the next iteration we will talk about how to design an observability endpoint that works for all personalization systems.

Scalability 219

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. It’s architecture was specially designed to manage large-scale data warehouses and business intelligence workloads by giving you the ability to spread your data out across a multitude of servers.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

To get a better understanding of AWS serverless, we’ll first explore the basics of serverless architectures, review AWS serverless offerings, and explore common use cases. Serverless architecture: A primer. Serverless architecture shifts application hosting functions away from local servers onto those managed by providers.

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High Scalability

MAY 14, 2020

Sure, Zoom has made some design decisions that made sense as a small spunky startup that don't make a lot of sense as a defacto standard, but that's to be expected. It's not a sign of bad architecture as many have suggested.

Virtualization 363

Virtualization Architecture Design 363

DZone

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

With the rise of microservices architecture , there has been a rapid acceleration in the modernization of legacy platforms, leveraging cloud infrastructure to deliver highly scalable, low-latency, and more responsive services. Traditional blocking architectures often struggle to keep up performance, especially under high load.

Performance 287

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

The reality of the startup is that engineering teams are often at a crossroads when it comes to choosing the foundational architecture for their software applications. The allure of a microservice architecture is understandable in today's tech state of affairs, where scalability, flexibility, and independence are highly valued.

Architecture 289

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

To take full advantage of the scalability, flexibility, and resilience of cloud platforms, organizations need to build or rearchitect applications around a cloud-native architecture. So, what is cloud-native architecture, exactly? What is cloud-native architecture? The principles of cloud-native architecture.

Cloud 162

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

This scenario underscored the need for a new recommender system architecture where member preference learning is centralized, enhancing accessibility and utility across different models. Furthermore, it was difficult to transfer innovations from one model to another, given that most are independently trained despite using common data sources.

Tuning 179

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By: Rajiv Shringi , Oleksii Tkachuk , Kartik Sathyanarayanan Introduction In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction , a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction.

Latency 251

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Motivation With the rapid growth in Netflix member base and the increasing complexity of our systems, our architecture has evolved into an asynchronous one that enables both online and offline computation. Architecture As shown in the diagram above, the RENO service can be broken down into the following components.

Systems 334

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

DZone

AUGUST 8, 2024

The decision between batch and real-time processing is a critical one, shaping the design, architecture, and success of our data pipelines. While both methods aim to extract valuable insights from data, they differ significantly in their execution, capabilities, and use cases.

Processing 275

Processing Architecture Design 275

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

We’re delighted to share that IBM and Dynatrace have joined forces to bring the Dynatrace Operator, along with the comprehensive capabilities of the Dynatrace platform, to Red Hat OpenShift on the IBM Power architecture (ppc64le).

Architecture 189

Architecture Availability Infrastructure Metrics 189

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This decoupling is crucial in modern architectures where scalability and fault tolerance are paramount. The architecture of RabbitMQ is meticulously designed for complex message routing, enabling dynamic and flexible interactions between producers and consumers.

Best Practices 147

Best Practices Traffic Strategy Scalability 147

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

We look here at a Gedankenexperiment: move 16 bytes per cycle , addressing not just the CPU movement, but also the surrounding system design. A lesser design cannot possibly move 16 bytes per cycle. This base design can map easily onto many current chips. Thought Experiment. bytes remaining to move.

Design 145

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

In today's rapidly evolving technology landscape, it's common for applications to migrate to the cloud to embrace the microservice architecture. While this architectural approach offers scalability, reusability, and adaptability, it also presents a unique challenge: effectively managing communication between these microservices.

Systems 286

Systems Virtualization Architecture Scalability 286

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Our Journey so Far Over the past year, we’ve implemented the core infrastructure pieces necessary for a federated GraphQL architecture as described in our previous post: Studio Edge Architecture The first Domain Graph Service (DGS) on the platform was the former GraphQL monolith that we discussed in our first post (Studio API).

Architecture 255

Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source 255

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's default codes and annotation setup lessen the time it takes to design an application.

Systems 255

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