DZone

JUNE 3, 2024

When I think about technical debt , I still remember the first application I created that made me realize the consequences of an unsuitable architecture. The client had requested the use of the Lotus Notes platform to build a procurement system for their customers.

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DZone

OCTOBER 17, 2024

As organizations adopt microservices and containerized architectures, they often realize that they need to rethink their approach to basic operational tasks like security or observability.

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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

MAY 23, 2022

As the pace of business quickens, software development has adapted. As a result, organizations are weighing microservices vs. monolithic architecture to improve software delivery speed and quality. Shifting from monolith to microservices makes it easier to test, develop, and release innovative features more rapidly.

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Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Many organizations are taking a microservices approach to IT architecture. A microservices approach enables DevOps teams to develop an application as a suite of small services. However, in some cases, an organization may be better suited to another architecture approach. What is the monolithic architecture approach?

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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. It seeks to make Java EE programming easier and increase developers' productivity in the workplace.

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DZone

JANUARY 16, 2024

Serverless architecture is a way of building and running applications without the need to manage infrastructure. Reduced operational overhead: Developers can focus purely on writing code and pushing updates, rather than worrying about server upkeep. When we talk about " serverless ," it doesn't mean servers are absent.

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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

MAY 26, 2020

While the term reactive architecture has been around for a long time, only relatively recently has it been recognized by the industry and hit mainstream adoption. The goal was to clarify some of the confusion around reactive and build a strong basis for what would become a viable development style.

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DZone

JANUARY 26, 2024

Building a strong messaging system is critical in the world of distributed systems for seamless communication between multiple components. A messaging system serves as a backbone, allowing information transmission between different services or modules in a distributed architecture.

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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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DZone

AUGUST 28, 2023

As their story unfolds, and with the relentless additions of new features and modifications to existing ones, this once sleek application has grown into a complex, intertwined system. Fortunately, the concept of Architectural Observability steps in to help.

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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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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This article outlines the key differences in architecture, performance, and use cases to help determine the best fit for your workload. RabbitMQ follows a message broker model with advanced routing, while Kafkas event streaming architecture uses partitioned logs for distributed processing.

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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

AUGUST 11, 2022

Effective application development requires speed and specificity. Applications must work as intended and make their way through development pipelines as quickly as possible. FaaS enables enterprises to deliver on the evolving expectations of fast and furious app development. FaaS vs. monolithic architectures.

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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.

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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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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. How can IT teams deliver system availability under peak loads that will satisfy customers?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Today’s story is about how the Keptn development team is using Dynatrace during development and load-testing. We were in the process of developing a new feature and wanted to make sure it could handle the expected load behavior. Conclusion: Dynatrace is always on for us developers. It happened in June 2020.

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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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DZone

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Microservices architecture has revolutionized modern software development, offering unparalleled agility, scalability , and maintainability. However, effectively implementing microservices necessitates a deep understanding of best practices to harness their full potential while avoiding common pitfalls.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

We recently announced Dynatrace Live Debugger , which gives developers unprecedented access to real-time data and runtime behavior insights. This powerful tool can be leveraged across various environments, including production, to enhance development processes and ensure robust application performance.

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DZone

MAY 15, 2023

In today's fast-paced software development landscape, microservices have emerged as a popular architectural pattern. This architectural style enables teams to develop and deploy services independently, offering flexibility and scalability to the software development process. But what exactly are microservices?

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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. Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. The Greenplum Architecture.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Observability agents are essential components in modern software development and operations. This data is then sent to centralized observability platforms where it can be analyzed to gain valuable insights into system performance, identify issues, and optimize operations.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Transforming an application from monolith to microservices-based architecture can be daunting, and knowing where to start can be difficult. Unsurprisingly, organizations are breaking away from monolithic architectures and moving toward event-driven microservices. Migration is time-consuming and involved.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. Dynatrace news. But what is observability? Why is it important, and what can it actually help organizations achieve? What is observability?

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Key Takeaways RabbitMQ improves scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems by decoupling applications, enabling reliable message exchanges.

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DZone

MARCH 23, 2023

The most important aspect of this shift has been the move from traditional API architectures driven by monolithic applications to containerized microservices. This shift not only improved the scalability and flexibility of our systems, but it has also given rise to new ways of software development and deployment approaches.

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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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DZone

JUNE 8, 2023

For more: Read the Report Conventionally, software applications were developed using a monolithic architecture where all application components were tightly interwoven and deployed as a single unit.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Applications must migrate to the new mechanism, as using the deprecated file upload mechanism leaves systems vulnerable. Developers and security professionals should take immediate steps to ensure the security of their Struts-based applications. Complete mitigation is only guaranteed in Struts version 7.0.0

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DZone

MARCH 5, 2024

Building scalable systems using microservices architecture is a strategic approach to developing complex applications. This step-by-step guide outlines the process of creating a microservices-based system, complete with detailed examples.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

Specifically, we will dive into the architecture that powers search capabilities for studio applications at Netflix. We implemented a batch processing system for users to submit their requests and wait for the system to generate the output. Maintaining disparate systems posed a challenge.

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