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Fermyon Built a WebAssembly Cloud to Push Serverless Microservices Beyond Containers
At KubeCon/CloudNativeCon 2022, Fermyon launched its microservice-oriented platform for WebAssembly apps, called Fermyon Cloud, which is now available in open beta.
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Cloudflare Open-Source Workerd Nanoservice Runtime Now in Beta
Recently open-sourced Cloudflare workerd is a new Web runtime for JavaScript/Wasm applications that shares most of its code with the runtime used by Cloudflare Workers. Workerd is based on standardized Web APIs and aims to enable a new approach to microservices removing their intrinsic latency, says Cloudflare.
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Atlassian Exceeds 99.9999% of Availability Using Sidecars and Highly Fault-Tolerant Design
Atlassian recently published how it exceeded 99.9999% of availability with its Tenant Context Service. Atlassian achieved this high availability by implementing highly-autonomous client sidecars, able to proactively shield themselves from complete AWS region failures. Sidecars query multiple services concurrently to accomplish this goal and ensure that requests are entirely isolated internally.
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Wave: a Case Study for Low Architectural Complexity
Dan Luu published an article presenting Wave as a case study for a business model where a simple and boring architecture fits best. Instead of a state-of-the-art service-based asynchronous architecture, they employ a synchronous monolith backed by a database and serving a unified API.
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Integrating Continuous Load Testing into Slack Pipeline
Slack has been working on making load testing a core concern for all engineers, not only those focusing on performance, and moving from a reactive approach to performance to a more integrated effort, say Slack engineers Shreya Ramesh and Melissa Khuat.
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Netflix’s RENO Keeps Experience Consistent across Devices
Netflix has developed the Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to create a consistent user experience across various platforms and devices. RENO reacts more quickly and consistently than the traditional request/response model to user-generated actions ranging from watching a title to changing profile information.
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Zesty Disk Provides Automatic Scaling for AWS EBS
Zesty recently released Zesty Disk, an automated scaling solution for AWS EBS. Zesty Disk monitors EBS performance metrics and can automatically scale the cluster size based on those metrics. This is done by creating a cluster of EBS volumes that can be attached or detached as needed based on system usage.
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Google Meet’s Scaling Challenges during COVID-19
Google wrote about their challenges in scaling Google Meet due to increased usage since the COVID-19 pandemic led to more people using it. The SRE team at Google used their existing incident management framework with modifications to tackle the challenge of increased traffic that started earlier this year.
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Khan Academy's Scaling Story to 2.5x Traffic Using a Serverless Architecture and CDN
Khan Academy’s engineering team shared their story of scaling to 2.5x their usual traffic by leveraging a serverless architecture on Google App Engine and their static content delivery providers Fastly and Youtube.
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An Incremental Architecture Approach to Building Systems
Of most of the applications we have globally, maybe 90% of them are perfectly served by a monolithic approach. To avoid overengineering, we should start with a simple architecture and evolve it as needs arise, Randy Shoup recently declared in a presentation where he described his experience with companies that started small and then grew into large global internet companies.
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Plaid.com’s Monitoring System for 9600+ Integrations
Plaid.com has integrations with over 9600 financial institutions, and their monitoring challenges arise from the heterogeneous nature of these integrations and as well as their large number. They rebuilt their monitoring system on Kinesis, Prometheus, Alertmanager and Grafana to solve the challenges of scalability and low latency.
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How SendGrid Scales Its Email Delivery Systems
SendGrid, a cloud based email service, has seen its backend architecture evolve from a small Postfix installation to a system hosted on their own data-centers as well as on the public cloud. Rewriting of services in Go, a gradual move to AWS, and a distributed Ceph-based queue allows the team to hand over 40 billion emails per month.
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GitHub Engineering Adopts New Architecture for MySQL High Availability
Github.com uses MySQL as a backbone for many of its critical services like the API, authentication and the Github.com website itself. Github’s engineering team replaced its previous DNS and VIP based setup with one based on Orchestrator, Consul and the Github Load Balancer to get around split brain and DNS caching issues.
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How Edgemesh Rolled out Its P2P Web Acceleration Service to Production
Edgemesh is a P2P web acceleration service based on the WebRTC protocol suite that offloads some of the the traffic normally handled by traditional CDNs to browser-based caches shared over a P2P network. They rolled out their release to production in the last few months and shared some of their experiences.
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Data Preparation Pipelines: Strategy, Options and Tools
Data preparation is an important aspect of data processing and analytics use cases. Business analysts and data scientists spend about 80% of their time gathering and preparing the data rather than analyzing it or developing machine learning models. Kelly Stirman spoke last week at Enterprise Data World 2017 Conference about the data preparation best practices.