Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2022

Composition-Based Design System In Figma. Composition-Based Design System In Figma. Working as a designer on a design system for a large product has taught me how precious the time you spend on a single task/component is. Is it for consistency, scalability, creativity or maintainability?

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. In this blog post, we will give an overview of the Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix and share some of the learnings we gained along the way.

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Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

DZone

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

While this architectural approach offers scalability, reusability, and adaptability, it also presents a unique challenge: effectively managing communication between these microservices. Successfully coordinating messages among these services is a fundamental aspect of their design.

Systems 285

Systems Virtualization Architecture Scalability 285

DZone

JANUARY 20, 2023

Having a distributed and scalable graph database system is highly sought after in many enterprise scenarios. Do Not Be Misled Designing and implementing a scalable graph database system has never been a trivial task.

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InfoQ

JANUARY 25, 2023

In this article, Rogerio Robetti discusses the challenges in auto-scaling stateful storage systems and proposes an opinionated design solution to automatically scale up (vertical) and scale out (horizontal) from a single node up to several nodes in a cluster with minimum configuration and interference of the operator.

Design 144

Design Systems Storage Data Engineering 144

DZone

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The Scheduler service enables this and is designed to address the performance and scalability improvements on Actor reminders and the Workflow API. In this post, I am going to deep dive into the details of how the Scheduler service was designed and its implementation to give you some background. Prior to v1.14 Prior to v1.14

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Scalability Design Database Processing 317

DZone

OCTOBER 7, 2024

This shift is driven by the need for greater control over costs, data privacy, and system customization. This article explores the essential components of such infrastructure, focusing on the technical considerations for GPU-agnostic design, container optimization, and workload scheduling.

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DZone

JANUARY 24, 2024

These storage alternatives have been designed to meet a range of requirements, including performance, scalability, durability, and price. This comprehensive essay will look at the many storage types that are often used in cloud computing systems.

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Storage Cloud Scalability Design 276

DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

At the heart of this decision lies a crucial question: should these teams lay the groundwork with a microservice architecture, known for its distributed and decentralized nature, or opt for a monolithic design, where the entire application is unified and interdependent?

Architecture 289

Architecture Scalability Design Engineering 289

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In this article, we discuss the concepts of dependability and fault tolerance in detail and explain how the Ably platform is designed with fault tolerant approaches to uphold its dependability guarantees. Fault tolerant design approaches address these shortfalls to provide continuity both to business and to the user experience.

Engineering 215

Engineering Systems Scalability Availability 215

InfoQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Peter Lawrey discusses achieving vertical scalability by minimizing accidental complexity and using an event-driven architecture. By Peter Lawrey

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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 86

Healthcare Architecture Cloud Systems 86

DZone

JULY 10, 2024

In today’s digital landscape, APIs have become the backbone of modern software architecture, enabling seamless integration and communication among disparate systems. Effective API management is critical to ensuring that these interfaces are secure, scalable, and maintainable.

Best Practices 222

Best Practices Software Architecture Strategy Scalability 222

Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

As organizations continue to expand within cloud-native environments using Google Cloud, ensuring scalability becomes a top priority. Visit Dynatrace booth #1141 during the event to explore how its real-time insights and optimization capabilities ensure seamless scalability and performance.

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Google Innovation Cloud Analytics 273

InfoQ

MAY 15, 2023

A horizontally scalable exabyte-scale blob storage system which operates out of multiple regions, Magic Pocket is used to store all of Dropbox’s data. Adopting SMR technology and erasure codes, the system has extremely high durability guarantees but is cheaper than operating in the cloud. By Facundo Agriel

Storage 114

Storage Systems Scalability Cloud 114

DZone

DECEMBER 27, 2023

As organizations increasingly embrace the microservices approach, the need for a resilient testing framework becomes important for the reliability, scalability , and security of these distributed systems. What Is MRTF? In embracing a holistic and collaborative approach, let’s start by explaining the cornerstones of MRTF.

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InfoQ

MAY 14, 2024

By combining smart and meaningful choices for each of these three components, we can build massively scalable, SLO-compliant stateful services at Netflix. Building reliable stateful services at scale isn’t a matter of building reliability into the servers, the clients, or the APIs in isolation. By Joseph Lynch

Systems 109

Systems Scalability Servers Design 109

DZone

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Traditional methods often fall short in managing this kind of volume and scale, leading to bottlenecks impacting the performance of the system. Simple Notification Service (SNS), a native pub/sub messaging service from AWS can be leveraged to design a distributed messaging platform.

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Efficiency AWS Scalability Architecture 264

DZone

JUNE 12, 2019

A system that has the ability to easily scale resources to meet the increasing workload without affecting the performance is known as a scalable system. To make an easy-to-scale system, it is crucial to have an evolutionary way of thinking about the software development cycle.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The system I managed was integral to Intuit’s trading networks and money-making capabilities which accounted for over $10 billion in annual revenues.

Best Practices 147

Best Practices Scalability Architecture Network 147

DZone

MARCH 20, 2023

Microservices architecture has gained popularity recently as a technique for creating sophisticated and scalable software systems. Microservices are scalable, independently deployable services that talk to one another across a network. HTTP and messaging are two popular methods for microservices communication.

Scalability 264

Scalability Architecture Network Design 264

High Scalability

APRIL 9, 2020

Google added another book into their excellent SRE series: Building Secure and Reliable Systems. Copy/pasting a few paragraphs: "In this book we talk generally about systems, which is a conceptual way of thinking about the groups of components that cooperate to perform some function. It's free to download, so don't be shy.

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Google Systems Best Practices Strategy 208

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

But DIY projects require extensive planning and careful consideration, including choosing the right technology stack, outlining the application’s framework, selecting a design system for the user interface, and ensuring everything is secure, compliant, and scalable to meet the requirements of large enterprises.

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Government DevOps Azure Scalability 200

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In particular, it’s our job to design and build the systems and protocols that enable customers from all over the world to sign up for Netflix with the plan features and incentives that best suit their needs. Let’s take a deeper look at the architecture, protocols, and systems involved.

Engineering 144

Engineering Scalability Architecture Innovation 144

Particular Software

MAY 22, 2023

When one of those meetings occurs after a carb-heavy lunch, it’s easy for your mind to drift away…back to those university lectures about entity design. Is this the best way to build a system, though? One cart to rule them all As the meeting continues, the design for the shopping cart begins to take shape. It gets worse.

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Systems Cache Strategy Database 98

All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

At AWS, we continue to strive to enable builders to build cutting-edge technologies faster in a secure, reliable, and scalable fashion. While building Amazon SageMaker and applying it for large-scale machine learning problems, we realized that scalability is one of the key aspects that we need to focus on. Streaming algorithms.

Scalability 146

Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 146

DZone

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Enter IoT device management — the suite of tools and practices designed to monitor, maintain, and update these interconnected devices. Why IoT Device Management Matters Scalability : As industries and consumers increasingly adopt IoT, the number of devices can surge into the billions.

IoT 310

IoT Internet Internet Network 310

DZone

MARCH 22, 2023

Then, we will discuss the system's architecture, the problems it solves, and the model employed to manage containerized deployments and scaling. Kubernetes (sometimes called K8s) is an open-source container-orchestration system that simplifies the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. What Is Kubernetes?

Open Source 253

Open Source Scalability Architecture Cloud 253

DZone

MARCH 12, 2024

In the rapidly evolving world of cloud computing, managing resource scalability in response to service demand has emerged as a critical challenge. To address this challenge, we developed Smart Scaler, a tool designed to automate infrastructure and application resource scaling.

Scalability 162

Scalability Cloud Infrastructure Design 162

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). In this article, I want to share ten tips that helped me grow and become a better designer, and I hope these tips will also help you while you’re trying to find more solid ground under your feet. Luis Ouriach.

Design 128

Design Website Social Media Best Practices 128

High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

It's HighScalability time: Have a very scalable Xmas everyone! odrotbohm : I’ve seen microservice based systems more deranged after 2 years than any 1,5 decades old monolith could ever have been. See you in the New Year. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. Me : Nothing special.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 137

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 190

Architecture Software Architecture Scalability Design 190

Percona

OCTOBER 20, 2023

You can read part one here: Scalable Solutions With Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL: Set Up Three PostgreSQL Database Instances. This is how Citus defines sharding: “Sharding is a technique used in database systems and distributed computing to horizontally partition data across multiple servers or nodes. 1ubuntu1~20.04.1)

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Percona

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Welcome to the first installment of our series: Scalable Solutions with Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL. Then, in the upcoming part of this post, Scalable Solutions with Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL (Part 2): Using Citus , we will use these worker nodes to establish a multi-node Citus cluster and implement sharding techniques. .

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Scalability Database Open Source Traffic 91

DZone

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Poorly optimized queries can lead to slow response times and increased load on the database server, negatively impacting user experience and system performance. This process can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, especially if the query is complex or if the database design does not support efficient data retrieval.

Performance 173

Performance Database Strategy Scalability 173

High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

cpeterso : Your quote reminds me of cybernetics' Law of Requisite Variety: "If a system is to be stable, the number of states of its control mechanism must be greater than or equal to the number of states in the system being controlled.". Maybe it's flawed, but the design is absolutely on the right traack. ” -Larry Tesler.

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