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From Smoothie Architecture to Layer Cake with Durable Execution
Sergey Bykov shows how Durable Execution of Temporal enables a transition and makes building scalable distributed applications qualitatively easier.
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Examining the Past to Try to Predict a Future for Building Distributed Applications
Mark Little looks at some core concepts, components and techniques in reliable distributed systems and application building over the years and tries to predict what that might mean for the future.
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A Distributed Systems Approach to Decarbonizing the Grid
Astrid Atkinson walks through how technologies like real time monitoring, software load balancing and fleet orchestration can help address one of the greatest challenges of our lifetimes.
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Embracing Observability in Distributed Systems
Michael Hausenblas discusses good practices and current developments around CNCF open source projects and specifications including OpenTelemetry and FluentBit.
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InfoQ Roundtable: Embracing Production: Make Yourself at Home
The panelists discuss operating distributed systems in production, how they embrace production, and ways to make it easier for others to onboard and keep the system up and running.
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Essential Complexity in Systems Architecture
Laura Nolan looks at some real distributed system architectures and examines the tradeoffs made, showing how simple systems can create complex and difficult to understand behaviors.
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The Medieval Census Problem
Andy Walker discusses the principles of distributed computing used in medieval times, and the need to understand high latency, low reliability systems, bad actors, data migration, and abstraction.
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InfoQ Live Roundtable: Observability Patterns for Distributed Systems
The panelists explore how a sound observability strategy can help mitigate operational costs and avoid common pitfalls in monitoring distributed systems.
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Distributed Programming, Hash Tables, and Fun!
Thomas Gebert and Nick Misturak demonstrate how they built a distributed hash-table video-sharing system, the technical hurdles encountered, and the pros/cons of using functional languages to do so.
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Why Distributed Systems Are Hard
Denise Yu talks about the complexity of distributed systems and why one needs to account for the human factor when designing a complex system.
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The Evolution of Distributed Systems on Kubernetes
Bilgin Ibryam takes us on a journey exploring Kubernetes primitives, design patterns and new workload types.
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Kafka: A Modern Distributed System
Tim Berglund covers Kafka's distributed system fundamentals: the role of the Controller, the mechanics of leader election, and the role of Zookeeper today and in the future.
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