The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

Netflix is always looking for security, ergonomic, or efficiency improvements, and this extends to authorization tools. 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?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

by Damir Svrtan and Sergii Makagon As the production of Netflix Originals grows each year, so does our need to build apps that enable efficiency throughout the entire creative process. We decided to build our app based on principles behind Hexagonal Architecture and Uncle Bob’s Clean Architecture.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 7, 2024

In this article, we will explore what RabbitMQ is, its mechanisms to facilitate message queueing, its role within software architectures, and the tangible benefits it delivers in real-world scenarios. Queues designated as durable maintain their configuration and stored messages even after the broker restarts.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 28, 2024

It offers benefits like increased reliability, efficient resource utilization, decoupling of components, and support for multiple programming languages. RabbitMQ allows consumer programs to wait and receive messages from producers, ensuring efficient message delivery and processing.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

Over the past few years I have focused much of my learning and work choices around learning about the design of sociotechnical systems?—?how how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. As part of good design, we should consider the effects of changing all of these variables.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

These trade-offs have even impacted the way the lowest level building blocks in our computer architectures have been designed. Modern CPUs strongly favor lower latency of operations with clock cycles in the nanoseconds and we have built general purpose software architectures that can exploit these low latencies very well.Â

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Let’s start by considering the job of a non-ML software engineer: writing traditional software deals with well-defined, narrowly-scoped inputs, which the engineer can exhaustively and cleanly model in the code. In effect, the engineer designs and builds the world wherein the software operates. Software Architecture.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It’s one thing to identify bottlenecks and implement optimizations for a specific website or a few similar websites, and quite another when dealing with many millions of websites, having such a wide variety of functionality, and an almost total freedom of design. Instead, we have to accommodate all of this variability, mostly on-demand.

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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. Take observability , for example.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 2, 2018

To address this challenge, I’d like to introduce you to the concept of Alignment Efficiency. I’ll show you some example scenarios to help you understand this concept, and I’ll demonstrate sociotechnical architecture patterns you can apply in your organisation to optimise your alignment efficiency. Aligned Autonomy ?—?which

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Domain-Driven Design’s Aggregate pattern is used to bridge the gap. It acts as a collaboration tool to balance the need for business correctness, user experience, and technical efficiency. Evolving Your Aggregates Over Time The initial criteria on which you base your aggregate design is likely to change over time.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 4, 2019

One of the key decisions we need to make in software architecture and in our organisations is when and where to create shared services and organise teams to build them. But there are a series of heuristics, or questions we can ask ourselves, to improve our chances of making the right sociotechnical design decision.

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

It's a given that we must design a system, including a local software architecture, that actually runs, that is "solid." This is supported in real terms through standards and consistent application of conventions, both in the information architecture (i.e., It must be useful, have utility. Solid doesn't mean inflexible.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Two particularly relevant patterns are Efficiency Enables Evolution and Higher Order Systems Create New Sources of Worth. In Wardley lingo, Google Maps is so efficient that it acts as a building block for higher-order systems (e.g. map-based property search) which deliver new type of value (e.g.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery performance and organizational scaling. Decoupling Streams of Work Our goal when designing systems is to maximise the speed of delivery and value of the work we deliver.

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