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Contentsquare Uses Microservices and Apache Kafka for Notification Delivery
Contentsquare needed notification functionality for many use cases within its platform. The company created a generic solution spanning multiple services as part of its microservice architecture. During the implementation, the developers had to improve observability and overcome some scalability challenges.
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Uber Migrates 4000+ Microservices to a New Multi-Cloud Platform Running Kubernetes and Mesos
Uber moved most of its containerized microservices from µDeploy to a new multi-cloud platform named Up in preparation for migrating a considerable portion of its compute footprint to the cloud. The company spent two years working on making its many microservices portable so that they can be migrated between different compute infrastructure and container management platforms.
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Distributed Materialized Views: How Airbnb’s Riverbed Processes 2.4 Billion Daily Events
Airbnb created Riverbed, a Lambda-like data framework for producing and managing distributed materialized views. The framework supports over 50 read-heavy use cases where data is sourced from multiple data sources within the company’s service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform. It uses Apache Kafka and Apache Spark for online and offline components, respectively.
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Nomura Leverages HashiCorp Consul for Microservices Discovery on AWS EC2
With the help of AWS and HashiCorp consultants, Nomura created a solution for service discovery for complex microservices environments. The solution leverages HashiCorp Consul and is based on a hierarchical, rule-based algorithm. It supports discovery by service name, DNS latency, and custom tags.
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Implementation of Zero-Configuration Service Mesh at Netflix
In a recent blog post, Netflix described why they engaged the Envoy community and Kinvolk to implement a new feature for Envoy, the open-source proxy developed by Lyft. This new feature called On-Demand Cluster Discovery helped Netflix to implement a zero-configuration service mesh.
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Reddit Adopts Server-Driven UI for Its New Feed Architecture across Mobile Apps
Reddit reworked its feeds functionality in the iOS mobile app and introduced it to the Android app. In both cases, they used the Server-Driven UI (SDUI) as their communication approach, which allows localized content layout changes without mobile app releases.
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Delivery Hero Implements Event-Driven Architecture to Handle Baemin Growth
Baemin, a South Korean food delivery service owned by Delivery Hero, successfully navigated the challenges of rapid customer member growth by moving from a monolithic architecture to a more flexible event-driven microservices-based system.
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Cadence 1.0: Uber Releases Its Scalable Workflow Orchestration Platform
Uber released a major version of its workflow orchestration platform named Cadence after six years in development. Uber and other companies use Cadence to build stateful services at scale using native programming languages.
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LinkedIn Adopts Protocol Buffers for Microservices Integration and Reduces Latency by up to 60%
LinkedIn adopted Protocol Buffers for exchanging data between microservices more efficiently across its platform and integrated it with Rest.li, their open-source REST framework. After the company-wide rollout, they reduced the latency by up to 60% and improved resource utilization at the same time.
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Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) v1.10 Released
Recently, the Dapr maintainers released V1.10 of Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), a developer framework for building cloud-native applications, making it easier to run multiple microservices on Kubernetes and interact with external state stores/databases, secret stores, pub/sub-brokers, and other cloud services and self-hosted solutions.
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Netflix Built a Scalable Annotation Service Using Cassandra, Elasticsearch and Iceberg
Netflix recently published how it built Marken, a scalable annotation service using Cassandra, ElasticSearch and Iceberg. Marken allows storing and querying annotations, or tags, on arbitrary entities. Users define versioned schemas for their annotations, which include out-of-the-box support for temporal and spatial objects.
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Six Essential Tracks at QCon London, March 27-29, 2023: Architecture, FinTech, ML, and More!
QCon London international software conference returns this March 27-29 with its 17th edition. Technical leaders who are driving innovation and change in software will share the latest trends and techniques from their real-world projects to help you solve common challenges. Learn about emerging trends in 2023, how to adopt them, how to avoid pitfalls, and how to embrace the best practices.
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Content Discovery at Scale with Hexagons and Elasticsearch at DoorDash
DoorDash recently published an article on how it is solving scaling challenges with content discovery using Elasticsearch and H3, a geospatial indexing system that partitions the world into hexagonal cells.
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QCon Plus 2022: Join Us Virtually for Quality Content and Connections
QCon Plus, the online software development conference organized by InfoQ, is returning this November 29-December 9, with an international community of senior software engineers, architects, and team leaders joining. Don’t miss your chance to be part of this event!
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QCon Events 2022: Uncover Emerging Trends & Learn From Practitioners Driving Innovation in Software
QCon offers two international software development conference formats, in-person QCon San Francisco (Oct 24-28) and online QCon Plus (Nov 29-Dec 9). Level up on the skills most in demand in the industry by uncovering emerging software trends to solve your complex engineering challenges.