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Analyzing Codebases for Fun and Profit

Jordan Bragg discusses using entry-points, breadth-first scanning, and operation tagging to demystify the domain, see where to dive deeper, and uncover what technical debt may exist.

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Location, Location, Location: MVA Considerations for Distributed Processing and Data

Even when designing a Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA), developers must consider resource location, especially when mobile apps are part of a distributed system. Distributing the data and processing can introduce new challenges if location is not part of the decision-making criteria.

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Migrating Netflix's Viewing History from Synchronous Request-Response to Async Events

In a web-based service, a slowdown in request processing can eventually make your service unavailable. Chances are, not all requests need to be processed right away. Some of them just need an acknowledgement of receipt. Have you ever asked yourself: “Would I benefit from asynchronous processing of requests? If so, how would I make such a change in a live, large-scale mission critical system?”

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Observability for Speed & Flow

Jessica Kerr considers that we should be looking at the software as part of the team, and observability in the software becomes an asset to organizing teams.

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The Hows and Whys of Effective Production-Readiness Reviews

At QCon Plus November 2021, Nora Jones, CEO and founder of Jeli, talked about how to build production readiness reviews (PRR) with emphasis on context and psychological safety. Her talk focused on the particulars of a PRR process that relates to incidents.

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Microsoft Announces Preview Service for Building Real-Time Web Applications Called Azure Web PubSub

Recently Microsoft announced a preview of Azure Web PubSub, a new service for building real-time web applications. Azure Web PubSub is a fully-managed service that supports native and serverless WebSockets.

Steef-Jan Wiggers
on May 07, 2021
Architecture & Design

Hortonworks Addresses the IoAT with DataFlow Based on NiFi

Hortonworks has quietly made available the DataFlow platform which is based on Apache NiFi and attempts to solve the processing needs of the IoAT.

Abel Avram
on Sep 25, 2015
Twitter Has Replaced Storm with Heron

Twitter has replaced Storm with Heron which provides up to 14 times more throughput and up to 10 times less latency on a word count topology, and helped them reduce the needed hardware to a third.

Abel Avram
on Jun 12, 2015
Streaming Big Data With Amazon Kinesis

Amazon recently announced Kinesis, a service that allows developers to stream large amounts of data from different sources and process it. The service is currently in limited preview.

Roopesh Shenoy
on Nov 25, 2013 1

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