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WASM in the Enterprise: Secure, Portable, and Ready for Business
Andrea Peruffo discusses WebAssembly's role on the server, showcasing how Chicory enables secure, portable, and performant polyglot applications, sharing key enterprise use cases.
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Test Smarter, Not Harder: Achieving Confidence in Complex Distributed Systems
Elias Nogueira explains how to build robust test suites for microservices by solving three common problems: testing with multiple databases, mocking dependencies, and managing asynchronous events.
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Timeouts, Retries and Idempotency In Distributed Systems
Sam Newman explains the three foundational principles of distributed systems: timeouts, retries, and idempotency. He shares practical advice on how to implement each to build more resilient software.
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Beyond Durability: Database Resilience and Entropy Reduction with Write-Ahead Logging at Netflix
Prudhviraj Karumanchi and Vidhya Arvind share how Netflix built a Write-Ahead Log to guarantee data durability and reliability, tackling issues like data loss, corruption, and replication at scale.
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From Smoothie Architecture to Layer Cake with Durable Execution
Sergey Bykov shows how Durable Execution of Temporal enables a transition and makes building scalable distributed applications qualitatively easier.
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Examining the Past to Try to Predict a Future for Building Distributed Applications
Mark Little looks at some core concepts, components and techniques in reliable distributed systems and application building over the years and tries to predict what that might mean for the future.
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A Distributed Systems Approach to Decarbonizing the Grid
Astrid Atkinson walks through how technologies like real time monitoring, software load balancing and fleet orchestration can help address one of the greatest challenges of our lifetimes.
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Embracing Observability in Distributed Systems
Michael Hausenblas discusses good practices and current developments around CNCF open source projects and specifications including OpenTelemetry and FluentBit.
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InfoQ Roundtable: Embracing Production: Make Yourself at Home
The panelists discuss operating distributed systems in production, how they embrace production, and ways to make it easier for others to onboard and keep the system up and running.
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Essential Complexity in Systems Architecture
Laura Nolan looks at some real distributed system architectures and examines the tradeoffs made, showing how simple systems can create complex and difficult to understand behaviors.
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The Medieval Census Problem
Andy Walker discusses the principles of distributed computing used in medieval times, and the need to understand high latency, low reliability systems, bad actors, data migration, and abstraction.
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InfoQ Live Roundtable: Observability Patterns for Distributed Systems
The panelists explore how a sound observability strategy can help mitigate operational costs and avoid common pitfalls in monitoring distributed systems.
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