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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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Scaling Is Not Just About Products – It’s About Teams, Too

DZone

We are well aware of what is meant by system scalability. System scalability is about maintaining the SLA of the system as the user base continues to grow and as the user activity continues to rise. However, to build highly successful products, this is not the only type of scalability that we should worry about. Introduction.

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Incremental Processing using Netflix Maestro and Apache Iceberg

The Netflix TechBlog

by Jun He , Yingyi Zhang , and Pawan Dixit Incremental processing is an approach to process new or changed data in workflows. The key advantage is that it only incrementally processes data that are newly added or updated to a dataset, instead of re-processing the complete dataset.

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What is platform engineering?

Dynatrace

With growing multicloud complexity and the need for organization-wide scalability, self-service and automation capabilities have become increasingly essential for developer productivity. In response to this shift, platform engineering is growing in popularity. The result is a cloud-native approach to software delivery.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 5th, 2018

High Scalability

Because the device in question is a high-speed unit designed to process a high volume of ballots for an entire county, hacking just one of these machines could enable anattacker to flip the Electoral College and determine the outcome of a presidential election?. I used to comment sparingly. Comments tell you about the state, not the code.

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SRE vs DevOps: What you need to know

Dynatrace

DevOps is focused on optimizing software development and delivery, and SRE is focused on operations processes. DevOps is not a specific process, but rather a general collection of flexible software creation and delivery practices that looks to close the gap between software development and IT operations.

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Beyond “Prompt and Pray”

O'Reilly

Your companys AI assistant confidently tells a customer its processed their urgent withdrawal requestexcept it hasnt, because it misinterpreted the API documentation. 90% accuracy for software will often be a deal-breaker, but the promise of agents rests on the ability to chain them together: even five in a row will fail over 40% of the time!