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Tales of Kafka at Cloudflare: Lessons Learnt on the Way to 1 Trillion Messages

Cloudflare uses Kafka clusters to decouple microservices and communicate the creation, change or deletion of various resources via protobuf, a common data format in a fault-tolerant manner. The authors suggest investing in metrics for problem detection, prioritizing clear SDK documentation, and balancing flexibility and simplicity for standardized pipelines.

Matt Boyle Andrea Medda
on May 29, 2023
Java

Easy Implementation of GDPR with Aspect Oriented Programming

GDPR compliance should be a default feature in every application that handles PII (Personally Identifiable Information). Most organizations have an impression that GDPR is a luxury feature that needs special tools to implement. But, we can see that the frameworks and design patterns we already use in our everyday development can very well be used to implement the GDPR rules.

Harish Kumar
on May 24, 2023
Architecture & Design

API Design Reviews Are Dead. Long Live API Design Reviews!

To design APIs at scale, it takes deliberate effort to create consistency and make several discrete APIs feel like a platform. This requires an efficient and useful API design review process.

Jason Harmon
on May 22, 2023
Cloud

Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s Exabyte-Scale Blob Storage System

A horizontally scalable exabyte-scale blob storage system which operates out of multiple regions, Magic Pocket is used to store all of Dropbox’s data. Adopting SMR technology and erasure codes, the system has extremely high durability guarantees but is cheaper than operating in the cloud.

Facundo Agriel
on May 15, 2023
Culture & Methods

Start Your Architecture Modernization with Domain-Driven Discovery

Successful projects start with robust discovery. What if your project is modernizing your tangled old legacy system or migrating all your workloads to the cloud? This article presents a guided approach to starting your next architecture modernization project with a Domain-Driven Discovery (DDD), illustrated with a medical supply company that is migrating its core systems to the cloud.

Ryan Shriver
on May 12, 2023 2
Architecture & Design

Banking on Thousands of Microservices

Lessons learned building a banking platform, starting from technological choices like using Cassandra and Kubernetes in the early days to maintain the speed of execution through platform engineering and developer experience. With some mistakes and incidents along the way.

Suhail Patel
on May 08, 2023 4
.NET

ASP.NET SPA Templates Proxy Changes from .NET 5 to .NET 6, .NET 7, and on

From .NET 6 the communication between front-end Single Page Applications (SPA) in ASP.NET and back-end .NET API was changed, with the SPA templates using the front end’s proxy solutions. A proxy for the development servers enables readable and debuggable code for both the front and back end, with the new approach resulting in a more independent back end.

Tamás-Márk Furó
on May 04, 2023
Architecture & Design

Agility and Architecture: Balancing Minimum Viable Product and Minimum Viable Architecture

Software architecture and agility are often portrayed as incompatible. In reality, they are mutually reinforcing - a sound architecture helps teams build better solutions in a series of short intervals, and gradually evolving a system’s architecture helps by validating and improving it over time.

Kurt Bittner Pierre Pureur
on Apr 24, 2023
Culture & Methods

The Journey from Underrepresented IC to CTO: How Open Source Helped

This article tells the story of a minority woman's journey from DBA to co-founder & CTO, using open source to overcome gender disparity. It provides insights on career shifting, open-source monetization, and the distinction between IC and CTO. The author shares advice and insights that may be helpful for others.

Trista Pan
on Apr 18, 2023
Architecture & Design

Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report - April 2023

This article provides an overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2023, with a focus on what architects are designing for today.

Thomas Betts Blanca Garcia Gil Daniel Bryant Eran Stiller Vasco Veloso Tanmay Deshpande
on Apr 07, 2023
DevOps

The Silent Platform Revolution: How eBPF Is Fundamentally Transforming Cloud-Native Platforms

There is a silent eBPF revolution reshaping platforms and the cloud-native world in its image, and this is its story.

Bill Mulligan Daniel Borkmann
on Apr 06, 2023
Java

Migrate a RMI-Based Legacy Application to WebSocket

Technical debt, especially in enterprise software, is a relevant problem that developers recurrently have to face. This article provides a use case related to removing technical debt in a large enterprise application based on an old fashioned Remote Method Invocation (RMI) protocol, and migrating it toward modern cloud-aware communication technologies.

Bartolomeo Sorrentino
on Apr 05, 2023