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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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5 powerful use cases beyond debugging for Dynatrace Live Debugger

Dynatrace

Performance benchmarking Performance benchmarking is one of the unresolved mysteries of software engineering. Modern software practices are notorious for making code extremely hard to debug. Live snapshot includes variables, process, stack trace, and tracing information. In many ways, it’s more of an art than a science.

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Connect your software with the right people: Ownership drives effective collaboration

Dynatrace

Searching for the right people can take time, especially in large and complex software environments. Incident management with clearly defined responsibilities Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) are challenged not only to detect problems and identify the root cause quickly but also to remediate problems immediately.

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Contention, Coherency, and Math Behind Software

DZone

This article is more focused on overall system design and architecture than any other written by me till today — so consider yourself warned. Additionally, I want to show you laws and their mathematical equations that can help you calculate the impact of these 3 mechanics on your application.

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