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Thinking Like an Architect
By explaining the roles of an architect and the concept of connecting levels, Gregor Hohpe delves into the importance of metaphors for making complex technical concepts more relatable and sketches for abstracting and capturing the essence of complex systems.
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Scaling Challenges: Productivity, Cost Efficiency, and Microservice Management
The main objective of this article is to delve into the technical complexities and strategic adjustments undertaken by Trainline. By examining challenges such as managing peak transaction volumes and orchestrating microservice architectures, we aim to uncover the valuable lessons learned and insights gained from Trainline's journey through the dynamic landscape of digital transportation platforms.
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Are You Done Yet? Mastering Long-Running Processes in Modern Architectures
In this article, Bernd Ruecker explores the importance of long-running processes in various applications, particularly in distributed systems. He emphasizes the value of asynchronous communication and explores strategies like Centers of Excellence, along with visual tools like BPMN for enhancing communication and understanding. The contents of this article were presented during QCon London 2024.
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How to Architect Software for a Greener Future
In this article, Sara Bergman shares tips, tricks, and advice on architecting software for a greener future. Bergman has been discussing this topic for several years.
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The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized
Large language models have significantly transformed the field of artificial intelligence. The fundamental innovation behind this change is surprisingly straightforward: make the models a lot bigger. With each new iteration, the capabilities of these models expand, prompting a critical question: are we moving toward a black box era where AI is controlled by a few tech monopolies?
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The Set Piece Strategy: Tackling Complexity in Serverless Applications
In this article, senior engineering manager and AWS Serverless hero Sheen Brisals examines how the characteristics of serverless such as optimization, robust availability and scalability influence us to think in a new way of architecting and evolving modern applications as set pieces, a concept from moviemaking. The contents of this article were presented during QCon London 2024.
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Platform as a Runtime - the Next Step in Platform Engineering
As systems become larger and more complex we need to take the concepts of platform engineering to a higher level – to the code level – by creating platforms and abstractions that will reduce cognitive load, help simplify and accelerate software development, and allow for easy maintenance and upgrades to the platform. Let’s move from “platform” to “Platform as a Runtime”.
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Delivering Great Developer Experiences with Platform Engineering
Companies increasingly turn to platform engineering to help scale their development teams and increase developer experience for engineer efficiency. In this virtual panel, we’ll discuss how teams build platforms, set others up for success, work with developers who use their platform, measure their progress, and adapt to new challenges.
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Million Dollar Lines of Code - an Engineering Perspective on Cloud Cost Optimization
A single line of code can shape an organization's financial future. Erik Peterson, the CTO and founder at CloudZero, presented an engineering perspective on cloud cost optimization at QCon San Francisco.
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Accelerating Technical Decision-Making by Empowering ICs with Engineering Strategy
Carta harnesses the power of a small group of senior engineers called navigators to bridge the gap between global strategy and local decision-making, using a written engineering strategy. Navigators replace a need for consensus and boost velocity by combining technical context, domain context, strategic alignment, and judgment to make engineering decisions quickly.
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The Three As of Building A+ Platforms: Acceleration, Autonomy, and Accountability
Platform engineering is not just a technical problem to solve nor an end in itself. In this article, I will share key lessons I have learned while building and delivering three platforms over the last two decades from VMware and Stripe to Apollo GraphQL, including where we got stuck, how we unblocked ourselves, and what ultimately led to the right outcomes for our users and the business.
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How Netflix Ensures Highly-Reliable Online Stateful Systems
Building reliable stateful services at scale isn’t a matter of building reliability into the servers, the clients, or the APIs in isolation. By combining smart and meaningful choices for each of these three components, we can build massively scalable, SLO-compliant stateful services at Netflix.