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AoAD2 Practice: Evolutionary System Architecture

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Evolutionary System Architecture. What about your system architecture? By system architecture, I mean all the components that make up your deployed system. Your network gateways and load balancers. Your feedback is appreciated!

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The Good and the Bad of Kubernetes Container Orchestration

Altexsoft

Containers have become the preferred way to run microservices — independent, portable software components, each responsible for a specific business task (say, adding new items to a shopping cart). Modern apps include dozens to hundreds of individual modules running across multiple machines— for example, eBay uses nearly 1,000 microservices.

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Data Gravity in Cloud Networks: Achieving Escape Velocity

Kentik

In an ideal world, organizations can establish a single, citadel-like data center that accumulates data and hosts their applications and all associated services, all while enjoying a customer base that is also geographically close. They do, however, represent an architectural response to the central problem of data gravity.

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eBPF Explained: Why it's Important for Observability

Kentik

eBPF is a lightweight runtime environment that gives you the ability to run programs inside the kernel of an operating system, usually a recent version of Linux. Those calls could be for kernel services, network services, accessing the file system, and so on. This could be due to congestion or even errors on the remote NIC.

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Infrastructure Engineer: Key Duties, Skills, and Background

Altexsoft

The hardware layer includes everything you can touch — servers, data centers, storage devices, and personal computers. The software layer can consist of operating systems, virtual machines, web servers, and enterprise applications. The infrastructure engineer supervises all three layers making sure that the entire system.

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The Road to Hyper-Efficient Alerting

LogicMonitor

Nowadays a user’s experience is likely to be dependent on a variety of microservices and applications, distributed among public cloud and private data center environments. About 90% of cloud apps share data with on-premises applications.) To this end, we are working towards hyper-efficient alerting with AIOps.

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ApacheCon, 9-12 September 2019, USA (Las Vegas) Report—a Look Back at Core, Complementary, and Competing Technologies

Instaclustr

has taken 2 years to develop (and the focus has now shifted to testing as the project approaches an official release), and due to a variety of improvements (e.g. Instagram is a big user of Cassandra, with 1000s of nodes, 10s of millions of queries per second, 100s of production use cases, and Petabytes of data over 5 data centers.