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Building a Global Caching System at Netflix: a Deep Dive to Global Replication
Netflix's EVCache system handles 400M ops/second across 22,000 servers, managing 14.3 PB of data. This infrastructure ensures global availability and resilience through intelligent data routing and flexible replication strategies. By implementing batch compression and switching to DNS-based discovery, Netflix optimizes efficiency, reduces bandwidth usage and significantly lowers operational costs.
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How to Minimize Latency and Cost in Distributed Systems
Explore the benefits and challenges of microservices architecture in cloud environments, focusing on achieving resilience and high availability while managing costs and performance issues.
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Java Virtual Threads: a Case Study
This article explores JDK 21's virtual threads, comparing their performance with Open Liberty's thread pool. It covers key findings like throughput, ramp-up times, and memory footprint. Despite advantages, virtual threads showed unexpected performance issues, especially in CPU-intensive workloads. This analysis guides Java developers on when and how to use virtual threads in their applications.
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Elevating Kubernetes Logging for Enhanced Observability
In this article, we will explore the challenges, strategies, and best practices that will help you achieve seamless log management in your Kubernetes environment.
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Unraveling the Enigma: Debunking Myths Surrounding Lambda Cold Starts
This insightful InfoQ article dispels the common myths surrounding Lambda Cold Starts, a widely discussed topic in the serverless computing community. As serverless architectures continue to gain popularity, misconceptions about Lambda Cold Starts have proliferated, often leading to confusion and misguided optimization strategies.
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Multi-Cloud Observability Using Fluent Bit
Explore the benefits and challenges of observability in multi-cloud deployments. See how Fluent Bit, a lightweight log collection and distribution tool, can enhance multi-cloud observability by improving cloud neutrality, cutting egress costs, and tackling compliance challenges.
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Architecting for High Availability in the Cloud with Cellular Architecture
Cellular architecture is a design pattern that helps achieve high availability in multi-tenant applications. The goal is to design your application so that you can deploy all of its components into an isolated "cell" that is fully self-sufficient. It can benefit your customers regarding availability and ensure you hit your SLAs.
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Orchestrating Resilience Building Modern Asynchronous Systems
In this article, we will discuss what problems we had to solve at Twilio to efficiently build a resilient and scalable asynchronous system to handle a complex workflow and the advantages we got from adopting a Workflow Orchestration solution, including abstracting away state management and out-of-the-box support for retries, observability, and audibility.
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InfoQ AI, ML, and Data Engineering Trends Report - September 2023
In this annual report, the InfoQ editors discuss the current state of AI, ML, and data engineering and what emerging trends you as a software engineer, architect, or data scientist should watch. We curate our discussions into a technology adoption curve with supporting commentary to help you understand how things are evolving.
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Debugging Production: eBPF Chaos
This article shares insights into learning eBPF as a new cloud-native technology which aims to improve Observability and Security workflows. You’ll learn how chaos engineering can help, and get an insight into eBPF based observability and security use cases. Breaking them in a professional way also inspires new ideas for chaos engineering itself.
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Learning eBPF for Better Observability
This article shares insights into learning eBPF as a new cloud-native technology which aims to improve Observability and Security workflows. Learn how to practice using the tools, and dive into your own development. Iterate on your knowledge step-by-step, and follow-up with more advanced use cases later.
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Unleash the Power of Open Source Java Profilers: Comparing VisualVM, JMC, and async-profiler
This article conveys the foundational concepts and different types of Open Source Java profilers. It allows you to choose the best-suited profiler for your needs and comprehend how these tools work in principle. The aim of a profiler is to obtain information on the program execution so that a developer can see how much time a method executed in a given period.