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Agile Book Club: System Architecture

James Shore

Teams that practice evolutionary design start with “the simplest thing that could possibly work” and evolve their design from there. But what about the components that make up a deployed system? Applications and services, network gateways and load balancers, and even third-party services? Reading: ??

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How to Prepare for Tech Interviews? Essential Steps for Success in 2023

The Crazy Programmer

This includes reviewing computer science fundamentals like DBMS, Operating Systems, practicing data structures and algorithms (DSA), front-end languages and frameworks, back-end languages and frameworks, system design, database design and SQL, computer networks, and object-oriented programming (OOP).

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Engineering dependability and fault tolerance in a distributed system

High Scalability

This means a system that is not merely available but is also engineered with extensive redundant measures to continue to work as its users expect. Fault tolerance The ability of a system to continue to be dependable (both available and reliable) in the presence of certain component or subsystem failures.

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Cluster Management in Cassandra: Achieving Scalability and High Availability

Datavail

Apache Cassandra is a highly scalable and distributed NoSQL database management system designed to handle massive amounts of data across multiple commodity servers. Start the Cassandra service on the new node: Monitor the system logs to ensure the new node successfully joins the cluster.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Insights on Hive Ransomware, Supply Chain Security, Risk Metrics, Cloud Security

Tenable

In the past 18 months, cybercriminals have used the Hive ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) to hijack the systems of 1,300-plus companies and shake down victims for around $100 million in ransom payments, with the healthcare sector especially impacted. System vulnerabilities . 1 - Ransomware attackers pocket over $100M with Hive.

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Sponsored Post: Etleap, PerfOps, InMemory.Net, Triplebyte, Stream, Scalyr

High Scalability

Leverage this data across your monitoring efforts and integrate with PerfOps’ other tools such as Alerts, Health Monitors and FlexBalancer – a smart approach to load balancing. Take Triplebyte's multiple-choice quiz (system design and coding questions) to see if they can help you scale your career faster.

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The History of Pets vs Cattle and How to Use the Analogy Properly

CloudScaling

Servers or server pairs that are treated as indispensable or unique systems that can never be down. Examples include mainframes, solitary servers, HA loadbalancers/firewalls (active/active or active/passive), database systems designed as master/slave (active/passive), and so on. It matters. Getting Value from Pets vs Cattle.

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