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Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction

The Netflix TechBlog

However, this category requires near-immediate access to the current count at low latencies, all while keeping infrastructure costs to a minimum. Eventually Consistent : This category needs accurate and durable counts, and is willing to tolerate a slight delay in accuracy and a slightly higher infrastructure cost as a trade-off.

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The Agile Architect: Mastering Architectural Observability To Slay Technical Debt

DZone

It's a story as old as ( UNIX ) time — in scene one, we meet an international online retailer whose software infrastructure is based on a sprawling monolithic application. But with this shift, understanding our software architecture on a deeper level while keeping up with the quick pace of release cycles is becoming more challenging.

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What is distributed tracing and why does it matter?

Dynatrace

Distributed tracing follows an interaction by tagging it with a unique identifier, which stays with it as it interacts with microservices, containers, and infrastructure. It can also offer real-time visibility into user experience, from the top of the stack right down to the application layer and the large-scale infrastructure beneath.

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What is distributed tracing and why does it matter?

Dynatrace

Distributed tracing follows an interaction by tagging it with a unique identifier, which stays with it as it interacts with microservices, containers, and infrastructure. It can also offer real-time visibility into user experience, from the top of the stack right down to the application layer and the large-scale infrastructure beneath.

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Ensure safe and secure releases at scale by providing Golden Paths

Dynatrace

Golden Paths for rapid product development Modern software development aims to streamline development and delivery processes to ensure fast releases to the market without violating quality and security standards. To bring these practices to life within an organization at scale, the discipline of platform engineering has gained popularity.

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How to overcome the cloud observability wall

Dynatrace

In contrast to modern software architecture, which uses distributed microservices, organizations historically structured their applications in a pattern known as “monolithic.” ” A monolithic software application has a few properties that are important to understand. Let’s break it down.

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Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science

The Netflix TechBlog

About two years ago, we, at our newly formed Machine Learning Infrastructure team started asking our data scientists a question: “What is the hardest thing for you as a data scientist at Netflix?” Our job as a Machine Learning Infrastructure team would therefore not be mainly about enabling new technical feats.