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Design Patterns for Serverless Systems

After shortly introducing design patterns at different levels of abstractions, this article will present a few patterns specifically suited to serverless systems, including the Pipes and Filters pattern and show a POC implementation using AWS EventBridge.

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Architecture & Design

Co-Designing Raft + Thread-per-Core Execution Model for the Kafka-API

Alex Gallego discusses the lessons learned building a new storage engine from scratch with no virtual memory, no page cache, with purpose-built read-ahead and write-behind strategies.

Joe, Florian and Sebastian on the Indy Autonomous Challenge

The Technical University of Munich has won the Indy Autonomous Challenge. A competition for self-racing vehicles. In this we discussies the the event itself, what makes it challenging, and the approach the TU Munich took. We discuss the importance of simulation, the limits of hardware, how Docker helps crossing this gap, and the role of open source software when taking on such a challenge.

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Culture & Methods

You’re Doing it Wrong: It’s Not About Data and Applications – It’s About Processes

Classic developer thinking tends to approach application design from a data-centric point of view. When the domain is process management, that often leads to excess complexity and work; it also (wrongly) over-reduces proactive processes to quick bursts of automation triggered by data changes. There’s a better way to do this: start with the process

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DevOps

More More More! Why the Most Resilient Companies Want More Incidents

John Egan discusses how companies of any scale can improve their understandability by lowering their barriers to incident reporting and simplifying their processes for documenting postmortems.