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Microservices: Software that Fits in Your Head
Dan North describes a model for thinking about the age of code and argues for replaceability as a first class concern, ending up with something that looks a lot like microservices.
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Practical Insights when Designing an API from Scratch
Paul Glavich discusses design decisions to be made when building a new API regarding versioning, hypermedia usage, authentication and other aspects.
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Beautiful Structure
Chris Chedgey explores how “locality of relationship” affects coupling, cohesion, and the width of interfaces, showing structural patterns that increase or decrease complexity.
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Microservices Are (Conceptually) Too Big
Philip Wills believes that thinking about independent services and single responsibility applications rather than microservices can help to clarify the architectural complexity trade-offs.
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Mini-talks: Machine Intelligence, Algorithms for Anti-Money Laundering, Blockchain
Mini-talks: The Machine Intelligence Landscape: A Venture Capital Perspective. The future of global, trustless transactions on the largest graph: blockchain. Algorithms for Anti-Money Laundering
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Distributed Scheduling with Apache Mesos in the Cloud
Diptanu Choudhury discusses the design of Netflix’ distributed scheduler based on Mesos and Titan, focusing on bin packing algorithms, scaling in and out of clusters, fault tolerance, and redundancy.
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Resilience, Service Discovery and Zero Downtime Deployment in Microservice Architectures
York Xyander, Bodo Junglas discuss strategies for service discoverability and transparent failover in a microservices architecture, how to achieve zero downtime and an auto-scaling architecture.
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Mini-talks: Seven Deadly Sins, Nanoservices, Protocol-Layer Semantics
Mini-talks on: The Seven Deadly Sins of Microservices. The Importance of Wise Protocol-Layer Semantics in the Design of Microservices. HTTP Nanoservices.
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Mini-talks: Deterministic Testing, Typesafe Config, Spreads v Probe, & Real-Time Event-Driven
Small sessions on: Deterministic testing in a non-deterministic world. Hash Spreads and Probe Functions. Typesafe Config on Steroids. Real-Time Distributed Event-Driven Computing at Credit Suisse.
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API Design Methodology
Mike Amundsen describes a methodology for designing Web APIs (based on the book "RESTful Web APIs") that allows to map key aspects of a business into a usable, scalable, and flexible interface.
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Creating An Incremental Architecture For Your System
Giovanni Asproni shows how to create a software architecture with just the right amount of design that can be incrementally evolved (or changed) as the system grows and changes.
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The Dos and Don'ts of Multithreading
Hubert Matthews describes some of the problems encountered in multithreading and discusses how to avoid them through appropriate design choices.