Tag: Software architecture
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AWS NoSQL: Choosing the best option for you
Posted on September 15, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
NoSQL databases enable you to store data with flexible schema and a variety of data models. These databases are relatively easy for developers to use, and have the high performance and functionality needed for modern applications. NoSQL databases can hold large volumes of data while still providing low latency. By Yifat Perry.
Tags nosql cloud cio database software-architecture
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Multi-Cluster service mesh failover and fallback routing
Posted on September 10, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this blog series, we will dig into specific challenge areas for multi-cluster Kubernetes and service mesh architecture, considerations and approaches in solving them. In our first post, we looked at service discovery and in this post we'll look at failover and fallback routing across multiple clusters. By Denis Jannot.
Tags kubernetes containers cloud software-architecture containers
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Apple is pouring resources & money into a new search engine
Posted on September 3, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Changes in Spotlight Search on iOS and iPadOS 14 beta, a significant update to its Applebot support page, and an increase in crawling from AppleBot signify that Apple may be launching a search engine soon. By Jon Henshaw.
Tags software miscellaneous software-architecture cio data-science
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Succeeding with microservices
Posted on August 23, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
How to succeed with microservices through principles, domain driven design concepts, and coding best practices.By Tiffany Jachja.
Tags microservices devops apis cio software-architecture
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OTP as the core of your application
Posted on August 21, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this two part series, we'll be taking a deep dive into what exactly the Actor Model is, how exactly the Actor Model is implemented in Elixir/Erlang and how we can leverage this pattern in pragmatic way from within our applications. By Alex Koutmos.
Tags software-architecture performance frameworks elixir web-development functional-programming
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Handling slow queries in MongoDB: Investigation
Posted on August 17, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Article by Justin Liu about one of the most essential factors of performance in any application -- latency. Faster application response times have been proven to increase user interaction and engagement as systems appear more natural and fluid with lower latencies.
Tags nosql miscellaneous performance devops software-architecture
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IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Posted on August 8, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Fully Homomorphic Encryptio (FHE) allows computation of still-encrypted data, without sharing the secrets. We're already accustomed to data being encrypted while at rest or in flight—FHE offers the possibility of doing computations on it as well, without ever actually decrypting it. By Jim Salter.
Tags ibm performance infosec software-architecture linux
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Introduction to crun, a fast and low-memory footprint container runtime
Posted on August 4, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Check out crun, an OCI-compliant alternative to runc for Linux container runtime. By Dan Walsh (Red Hat), Valentin Rothberg (Red Hat), Giuseppe Scrivano (Red Hat).
Tags containers open-source software-architecture devops linux
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Quantum computing: A key ally for meeting business objectives
Posted on August 2, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Quantum computing provides a new way of optimizing business processes with use cases spanning finance, logistics, telecommunications, and transport operations. An article by Reply, published on MIT technology review.
Tags miscellaneous machine-learning software-architecture learning management
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Railway oriented programming in Scala
Posted on August 1, 2020, Level advanced Resource Length long
An article by Pierre Jambet about his discovery of Railway Oriented Programming (ROP).
Tags scala software-architecture functional-programming code-refactoring software java
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Traffic Director and gRPC—proxyless services for your service mesh
Posted on July 22, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
Lots of organizations turn to service mesh because it solves tedious and complicated networking problems, especially in environments that make heavy use of microservices. It also allows them to manage application networking policies, like load balancing and traffic management policies, in a centralized place. By Stewart Reichling and Srini Polavarapu @Google.
Tags devops software-architecture kubernetes containers
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Singleton design pattern in java
Posted on July 21, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
Singleton pattern is one of the most commonly used software design pattern. It comes under creational pattern. By Manoj Singh Saun.
Tags java software-architecture programming