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Ganesh Prasad proposes minimizing service dependencies in a SOA implementation rather than avoiding point-to-point connections in order to obtain a more flexible system that can evolve over time.
Maintaining high availability and resiliency for a system that handles a billion requests a day.
Defining the microservices architectural style by describing their nine common characteristics
I’m increasingly encountering users on Heroku that are encountering the need to shard their data. For most users this is something you delay as long as possible as you can generally go for sometime before you have to worry about it. Additionally scaling up your database is often a reasonable approach early on and something I encourage as a starting point as scaling up is easy to do with regards to databases. However, for the 1% of users that do need to shard when the time comes many are left wondering where to start, hence the fo...
Really Excellent article about queues, overloads, bottlenecks and architecture
As we’ve scaled Instagram to an ever-growing number of active users, Postgres has continued to be our solid foundation and the canonical data storage for most of the data created by our users. While less than a year ago, we blogged about how we “stored a lot of data” at Instagram at 90 likes per second, we’re now pushing over 10,000 likes per second at peak–and our fundamental storage technology hasn’t changed.
Java performance issues are often attributable to bad database access patterns. In this article a top performance field engineer demonstrates his patterns for diagnosing database related issues.
Computer-generated poetry . Contribute to RyanMarcus/EdgarAllanPoetry development by creating an account on GitHub.
A book series on JavaScript. @YDKJS on twitter. Contribute to getify/You-Dont-Know-JS development by creating an account on GitHub.
Salary negotiation advice, mostly for engineers. Running total of raises negotiated due to this essay: $9M+.
To publish iCal through Rails, install iCalendar gem gem install icalendar then in Controller, code to export event ( export to *.ics file) should look like, require ‘icalendar’ class …
Opening the curricular black box
In these series of tutorials I will explain new java concepts of an intermediate level (threads, AWT, Swing, etc.) and basic concepts for game programming (game loop, FPS, sprite, etc). These tutorials are useful both for those who want to program games, as for those who, with a basic or intermediate level in java, want to learn and improve java programming concepts in an entertaining way.
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