architecture
There may be an undiscovered tribe deep in some jungle somewhere that hasn’t made up their mind on microservices, but I doubt it. People love microservices or love to hate microservices. There’s not much in between. So it means something when even a team at a company like
Linux
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, ‘threads’ were a programming novelty rarely used and seldom trusted. In that environment, the first PostgreSQL developers decided forking a process for each connection to the database is the safest choice. It would be a shame if your database crashed,
high availablilty
HelloFresh keeps growing every single day: our product is always improving, new ideas are popping up from everywhere, our supply chain is being completely automated. All of this is simply amazing us, but of course this constant growth brings many technical challenges. Today I’d like to take you on
Strategy
This is a guest repost of Ben Stopford's epic post on Elements of Scale: Composing and Scaling Data Platforms. A masterful tour through the evolutionary forces that shape how systems adapt to key challenges. As software engineers we are inevitably affected by the tools we surround ourselves with.
Database
“You just can't have it all” is a phrase that most of us are accustomed to hearing and that many still believe to be true when discussing the speed, scale and cost of processing data. To reach high speed data processing, it is necessary to utilize more memory
cloud computing
The introduction of cloud technologies is not a simple evolution of existing ones, but a real revolution. Like all revolutions, it changes the points of views and redefines all the meanings. Nothing is as before. This post wants to analyze some key words and concepts, usually used in traditional architectures,
Java
We have written agents deployed/distributed across the network. Agents sends data every 15 Secs may be even 5 secs. Working on a service/system to which all agent can post data/tuples with marginal payload. Upto 5% drop rate is acceptable. Ultimately the data will be segregated and stored
S3
Authored by Chris Fregly: Former Netflix Streaming Platform Engineer, AWS Certified Solution Architect and Purveyor of fluxcapacitor.com. Ahead of the upcoming 2nd annual re:Invent conference, inspired by Simone Brunozzi’s recent presentation at an AWS Meetup in San Francisco, and collected from a few of my recent Fluxcapacitor.
architecture
Jeremy Edberg, the first paid employee at reddit, teaches us a lot about how to create a successful social site in a really good talk he gave at the RAMP conference. Watch it here at Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion–Pitfalls and Lessons. Jeremy uses a virtue
Strategy
Hidden in every computer is a hardware backplane for moving signals around. Hidden in every application are ways of moving messages around and giving code CPU time to process them. Unhiding those capabilities and making them first class facilities for the programmer to control is the idea behind AppBackplane. This
architecture
Benjamin Erb (@b_erb) from Ulm University recently published his diploma thesis on "Concurrent Programming for Scalable Web Architectures". The thesis provides a comprehensive survey on different concepts and techniques of concurrency inside web architectures, including web servers, application logic and storage backends. It incorporates research publications, hands-on
architecture
The InfoQ article Finding the Right Data Solution for Your Application in the Data Storage Haystack makes a series of concrete recommendations for a user who wants to find the right storage solution for his application. Few years back, there was a time SQL RDBMS were solution for almost all