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How should you go about structuring your project? We have two general paradigms that I'll characterize as flowing from the Etsy coaching tree, emphasising the monolith, and from the Netflix coaching tree, emphasizing microservices. This is of course an over simplification, but it's for instructional purposes
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Jean Dagenais published a great response on a mechanical-sympathy thread to Gil Tene's article, The Black Magic Of Systematically Reducing Linux OS Jitter. It's full of helpful tools for tracking down jitter problems. I apologize for the incomplete attribution. I did not find a web presence
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by AreteStock Removing friction. That’s what the Apple Watch is good at. Many think watches are a category flop because they don’t have that obvious killer app. Like hot sauce, maybe a watch isn’t something you eat all by itself, but it gives whatever you sprinkle it
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This is a guest post by Toby Matejovsky, Director of Engineering at Tapad (@TapadEng). Here at Tapad, scaling our technology strategically has been crucial to our immense growth. Over the last four years we’ve scaled our real-time bidding system to handle hundreds of thousands of queries per second. We’
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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.
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We must be able to create better complex software systems. That’s that message from Mary Poppendieck in a wonderful far ranging talk she gave at the Craft Conference: New New Software Development Game: Containers, Micro Services. The driving insight is complexity grows nonlinearly with size. The type of system
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A world that wants full stack developers also needs full stack tuners. That tuning process, or at least the outline of a full stack tuning process is something Ronald Bradford describes in not quite enough detail in Improving performance – A full stack problem. The general philosophy is: * Understanding were to
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This is guest post by John Piekos, VP Engineering at VoltDB. I understand this is a little PRish, but I think the ideas are solid. The focus of many developers and architects in the past few years has been on Big Data, specifically mining historical intelligence from the Data Lake
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How do you systematically identify the sources of jitter and remove them one by one in a low-latency trading system? That was the question asked on the mechanical-sympathy email list. Gil Tene, Vice President of Technology and CTO, Co-Founder, Azul Systems gave the sort of answer that comes from the
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Phalanx Weapon System by EumenesOfCardia For every new weapon there’s an often unexpected move made to counter it. You develop a rock, I develop a shield. You develop a castle, I develop a cannon. You develop a knight in shining armor, I develop a long bow. You develop nukes
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What will change everything this time? * Data Gravity (move compute to data) + * Containers (lightweight computation) + * Microservices (composable compute modules) That’s according to John Willis and Damon Edwards on a highly recommended recent DevOps Cafe Episode. The high concept goes something like: Containers are the killer app for microservices. Data
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Tim Trefren is one of the founders at Mixpanel, the most advanced analytics platform for web & mobile applications. He has many years of experience building compelling, accessible interfaces to data. To learn more, check out the Mixpanel engineering blog. Building data products is not easy. Many people are uncomfortable