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Taking Advantage of Cell-Based Architectures to Build Resilient and Fault-Tolerant Systems

Cell-based architectures offer a robust approach to building resilient systems. They achieve this through the core principles of isolation, autonomy, and replication. Each cell manages its resources and makes decisions autonomously. Observability for cell-based architecture requires a tailored approach to address the unique challenges and opportunities presented by this distributed system design.

Yury Niño Roa
on Oct 21, 2024
Cloud

Optimizing Wellhub Autocomplete Service Latency: a Multi-Region Architecture

Every company wants fast, reliable, and low-latency services. Achieving these goals requires significant investment and effort. In this article, I will share how Wellhub invested in a multi-region architecture to achieve a low-latency autocomplete service.

Matheus Felisberto
on Oct 17, 2024
DevOps

Proactive Approaches to Securing Linux Systems and Engineering Applications

Maintaining a strong security posture is challenging, especially with Linux. An effective approach is proactive and includes patch management, optimized resource allocation, and effective alerting.

Prashanth Ravula
on Oct 07, 2024
Cloud

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.

Amir Souchami
on Sep 25, 2024
DevOps

Building Better Platforms with Empathy: Case Studies and Counter-Examples

Scaling platform development often means absorbing cognitive burdens, but empathy is key. Understanding users beyond their immediate issues leads to better solutions. Platforms help manage growth's complexity, but a product mindset with user-centricity is vital. In his talk at QCon San Francisco 2023, David Stenglein expanded on cultivating empathy through open communication.

David Stenglein
on Sep 23, 2024
Culture & Methods

Curating Developer Experience: Practical Insights from Building a Platform Team

As a platform engineer, how do you help your customers go quicker, which aspects of developer experience should you care about and what do you actually do to curate an experience for them? This article is about curating a developer experience, it shares experiences and learnings from implementing DevEx and ideas on what platform engineers can do for development teams that use platforms.

Andy Burgin
on Sep 19, 2024
DevOps

Mastering Impact Analysis and Optimizing Change Release Processes

Dynamic IT professional with a proven track record in optimizing production processes and analyzing outages in complex systems handling millions of TPS. The recent CrowdStrike outage highlights the importance of continuous improvement and adherence to best practices. Passionate about elevating operational excellence through strategic reviews and effective process enhancements.

Tejas Ghadge
on Sep 11, 2024
DevOps

Efficient DevSecOps Workflows with a Little Help from AI

Michael Friedrich is exploring how teams face varying levels of inefficiency in their DevSecOps processes, hindering progress and innovation. He highlights common issues like excessive debugging time and inefficient workflows, while also demonstrating how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be a powerful tool to streamline these processes and boost efficiency.

Michael Friedrich
on Sep 04, 2024
Cloud

Cloud Waste Management: How to Optimize Your Cloud Resources

The 2024 "State of FinOps" survey results of the FinOps Foundation mentioned that organizations' top priorities have shifted to reducing cloud waste or unused resources. This article delves into understanding how to manage cloud waste.

Abhishek Jain
on Aug 15, 2024
Cloud

Uber's Blueprint for Zero-Downtime Migration of Complex Trip Fulfillment Platform

In large-scale distributed systems, migrating critical systems from one architecture to another is technically challenging and involves a delicate migration process. Uber operates one of the most intricate real-time fulfillment systems globally. This article will cover the techniques to migrate such a workload from on-prem to a hybrid cloud architecture with zero downtime and business impact.

Madan Thangavelu
on Aug 07, 2024
Architecture & Design

The Set Piece Strategy: Tackling Complexity in Serverless Applications

In this article, senior engineering manager and AWS Serverless hero Sheen Brisals examines how the characteristics of serverless such as optimization, robust availability and scalability influence us to think in a new way of architecting and evolving modern applications as set pieces, a concept from moviemaking. The contents of this article were presented during QCon London 2024.

Sheen Brisals
on Jul 02, 2024
Culture & Methods

Platform as a Runtime - the Next Step in Platform Engineering

As systems become larger and more complex we need to take the concepts of platform engineering to a higher level – to the code level – by creating platforms and abstractions that will reduce cognitive load, help simplify and accelerate software development, and allow for easy maintenance and upgrades to the platform. Let’s move from “platform” to “Platform as a Runtime”.

Aviran Mordo
on Jun 28, 2024