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Tips for designing distributed systems

CircleCI

While SOA architecture gave us the added benefit of business value and reusable, loosely-coupled services, they still relied on monolithic systems with limited scaling. Microservice architecture. Distributed systems best practices. In a microservice, the constituting services are out-of-process components.

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AoAD2 Practice: Evolutionary System Architecture

James Shore

Evolutionary System Architecture. What about your system architecture? By system architecture, I mean all the components that make up your deployed system. When you do, you get evolutionary system architecture. Netflix shut down their data centers and moved everything to the cloud!

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Building Modern Enterprise Architecture: How To Turn An Elephant Into A Streak Of Cheetahs

Crunchbase News

Lightbulb moment Most enterprise applications are built like elephants: Giant databases, high CPU machines, an inside data center, blocking architecture, heavy contracts and more. Will you take a monolithic approach to building, like most enterprise-focused companies adopt? Or will you embrace change?

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CloudBank’s Journey from Mainframe to Streaming with Confluent Cloud

Confluent

And while microservices and stateless applications are great candidates for leveraging the power of Kubernetes, which would ultimately solve this problem, stateful software such as Apache Kafka requires a whole new level of expertise, one that CloudBank didn’t have as their business is core banking.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

They combine this feedback with data-driven approaches to adapt their offerings. They leverage redundancy and automation make sure their code – and data centers – remain stable, secure, and resilient. That’s when newly minted internet companies tried to grow systems many times larger than any enterprise could manage.