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Low-Maintenance Backend Architectures for Scalable Applications

DZone

After years of working in the intricate world of software engineering, I learned that the most beautiful solutions are often those unseen: backends that hum along, scaling with grace and requiring very little attention. Developers could understand and manage the entire systems intricacies.

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Architecture Patterns: The Circuit-Breaker

DZone

Much like how an electrical circuit breaker prevents an overload by stopping the flow of electricity when excessive current is detected, the Circuit Breaker pattern in software engineering stops the flow of requests to a service when the number of failures exceeds a predefined threshold.

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Kubernetes Observability: Lessons Learned From Running Kubernetes in Production

DZone

In recent years, observability has re-emerged as a critical aspect of DevOps and software engineering in general, driven by the growing complexity and scale of modern, cloud-native applications.

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Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale

The Netflix TechBlog

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.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In Accelerate , Nicole Forsgren shows a link between well-designed, loosely-coupled architecture and more frequent software delivery.

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Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

Dynatrace

For software engineering teams, this demand means not only delivering new features faster but ensuring quality, performance, and scalability too. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done.

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Architected for resiliency: How Dynatrace withstands data center outages

Dynatrace

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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