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Engineering for Scale at VMTurbo
Sylvia Isler presents a microservices case study and lessons learnt - how VMTurbo took the plunge to evolve its monolithic system architecture into a system based on composable microservices.
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Distributed Scheduling with Apache Mesos in the Cloud
Diptanu Choudhury discusses the design of Netflix’ distributed scheduler based on Mesos and Titan, focusing on bin packing algorithms, scaling in and out of clusters, fault tolerance, and redundancy.
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Resilience, Service Discovery and Zero Downtime Deployment in Microservice Architectures
York Xyander, Bodo Junglas discuss strategies for service discoverability and transparent failover in a microservices architecture, how to achieve zero downtime and an auto-scaling architecture.
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Spotify Audio Delivery at Scale
Niklas Gustavsson presents Spotify's 2-layer services, and how the UNIX philosophy of composing components that does a single thing well works on a greater scale.
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Service Architectures at Scale: Lessons from Google and eBay
Randy Shoup discusses modern service architectures at scale, using specific examples from both Google and eBay. He covers some interesting lessons learned in building and operating these sites.
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Programming with GUTs
Kevlin Henney advises on writing Good Unit Tests (GUTs) by treating testing as a form of communication with multiple levels and forms of feedback.
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How SoundCloud Uses Cassandra
Emily Green is taking a look at how SoundCloud uses Cassandra. She describes a couple of Cassandra instances, from the point of view of the products and functionality they support.
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Thinking in a Highly Concurrent, Mostly-functional Language
Francesco Cesarini illustrates how the Erlang way of thinking about problems leads to scalable and fault-tolerant designs, describing 3 ways of clustering Erlang nodes within the server side domain.
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Cluster Management at Google
John Wilkes shares lessons learned managing clusters at the scale of Google.
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Deis + Mesos: Docker PaaS at Scale
Gabriel Monroy demonstrates using Deis to orchestrate Docker deployments, as well as Deis' integration with popular schedulers like Fleet, Mesos, and Kubernetes.
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Cloud-scale Event Processing using Rx
Bart De Smet explains what it took to bring the concepts of Reactive Extensions (Rx) to the cloud to deal with latency, scale, reliability, and other concerns.
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The Disciplined Agile Enterprise: Harmonizing Agile and Lean
Scott Ambler describes how to evolve from today’s vision of agile to a truly disciplined agile enterprise, exploring what it means to scale strategies at the project level and across an organization.