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Optimizing Database Performance in Middleware Applications

DZone

In the realm of modern software architecture, middleware plays a pivotal role in connecting various components of distributed systems. This is crucial because middleware often serves as the bridge between client applications and backend databases, handling a high volume of requests and data processing tasks.

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Process Debt Is Something You Should Care About

DZone

Early this year, the book Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to Improve the Quality of Your Architecture was published. He wrote a chapter that is particularly useful in contexts where the architecture and environment still have many opportunities for improvement. Intro and Problem Statement.

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Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction

The Netflix TechBlog

Introducing sufficient jitter to the flush process can further reduce contention. By creating multiple topic partitions and hashing the counter key to a specific partition, we ensure that the same set of counters are processed by the same set of consumers. This process can also be used to track the provenance of increments.

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The Agile Architect: Mastering Architectural Observability To Slay Technical Debt

DZone

One of those beautiful complications was the introduction of Agile methodologies, which have become a standard in software development by shifting how we develop software into a more responsive and collaborative process.

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Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

Dynatrace

This involves new software delivery models, adapting to complex software architectures, and embracing automation for analysis and testing. In this visual, you can see the whole processing of Keptn deploying, testing, and evaluating performance tests against defined SLIs is automated. Performance-as-a-self-service .

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Why applying chaos engineering to data-intensive applications matters

Dynatrace

Stream processing One approach to such a challenging scenario is stream processing, a computing paradigm and software architectural style for data-intensive software systems that emerged to cope with requirements for near real-time processing of massive amounts of data.

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The Relationship Between Software Architecture And Business Models (and more)

Strategic Tech

If every significant architecture decision has business consequences, then knowing the business model and which trade-offs to choose is maybe the most important skill of architects. But what is the actual relationship between a business model and a software architecture? A software system is a model of a domain.