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6 Crucial Issues for Legacy.NET App Modernization

Datavail

This should include asking questions like: What is the system architecture? This could include changes to the database’s software, architecture, data schema, or security practices. Selecting the right metrics. Data security, too, can be a crucial business metric. Establishing an IT culture.

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Observability for New Teams: Part 1

Honeycomb

Any significant shift in an organization’s software engineering culture has the potential to feel tectonic, and observability (o11y for short)—or more specifically, Observability Driven Development —is no different. Reliability and availability don’t have to be the sole metrics you use to measure system robustness.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

While Charity has deep experience in the domains of infrastructure & operations, databases, and backend engineering, I come originally from design, frontend, and product engineering, and I take a particular joy in collaborating with product management and ux design.

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The Future of Observability is Bright as Honeycomb Announces $50M in Series D Funding

Honeycomb

We can do this by finding ways to make our powerful query experience more intuitive, accessible, and human for a broader population, whether you’re a seasoned platform engineer or a new frontend hire. Better solutions for modern architectures. The three pillars are nonsense.

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Making the Internet faster at Netflix

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

What are some of those key design and architecture philosophies that engineers at Netflix follow to handle such a scale in terms of network acceleration, as well as content delivery? And for me, the big part of the success of growth was actually a step above the pure engineering architecture. Makes sense.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

As the company outgrew its traditional cathedral-style software architecture in the early 2000’s, the leadership team felt that the growing pains could be addressed with better communication between teams. In other words, a bazaar-style hardware architecture was vastly superior to a cathedral-style architecture.)

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Technical Health Isn’t Optional

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In a modern software architecture, a lot of the work will be performed by services that access other services, and each service needs its own identity and its own set of privileges. Similarly, Tim Hope said that open source is critical in building an engineering culture and developing systems. That’s an important statement.