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Solving The Von Neumann Bottleneck With FPGAs

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

As in all things, there needs to be a balance, so I am reviewing some of the innovations that we have made in our infrastructure portfolio which contribute to operational excellence. It can be upgraded easily with a new firmware image in the same fashion as for switches or routers today.

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Book Review: Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Henrik Warne

What a great book Designing Data-Intensive Applications is! It covers databases and distributed systems in clear language, great detail and without any fluff. I particularly like that the author Martin Kleppmann knows the theory very well, but also seems to have a lot of practical experience of the types of systems he describes.

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Distributed systems: A quick and simple definition

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Get a basic understanding of distributed systems and then go deeper with recommended resources. These always-on and always-available expectations are handled by distributed systems, which manage the inevitable fluctuations and failures of complex computing behind the scenes. “The Benefits of distributed systems.

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Journey to Event Driven – Part 3: The Affinity Between Events, Streams and Serverless

Confluent

In part 1 of this series, we developed an understanding of event-driven architectures and determined that the event-first approach allows us to model the domain in addition to building decoupled, scalable and enterprise-wide systems that can evolve. The first call is where database connections (and the like) should be initialized.

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Journey to Event Driven – Part 4: Four Pillars of Event Streaming Microservices

Confluent

This model is completely free form, we can build anything provided that we apply mechanical sympathy with the underlying system behavior. All of these, and more, lead to design patterns that can be used and reused. All of these, and more, lead to design patterns that can be used and reused. Building the KPay payment system.