Posts tagged #architecture

I see a lot of bad system design advice. One classic is the LinkedIn-optimized “bet you never heard of queues” style of post, presumably aimed at people who are…

Like the pdp-10 had

An interesting walk down history lane… of computers

For me, a very provocative set of arguments. Novel insights on how to remove complexity. Or recognizing that you may not need that additional service or technology. The author: “Radical Simplicity is a startup development method to make development faster and more fun that plays well with lean startups”

CodeSee is the world’s first solution for Continuous Code Understanding. CodeSee helps development teams visually understand how your large-scale codebase works, document it, and collaborate continuously.

There are many ways to scale out your database; many of these techniques require advanced management and expensive add-ons or editions. Database sharding is a flexible way of scaling out a database. In this presentation, Jeremiah Peschka explains how to scale out using database sharding, covers basic techniques, and shares some of the pitfalls. This...

Scalability is considered a hard problem to tackle. It’s always presented like it’s something magical done with secret, special tools that only big, million ...

Really Excellent article about queues, overloads, bottlenecks and architecture