Architecture Weekly Issue #183. Articles, books, and playlists on architecture and related topics. Split by sections, highlighted with complexity: 🤟 means hardcore, 👷♂️ is technically applicable right away, 🍼 - is an introduction to the topic or an overview. Now in telegram and Substack as well.
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Highlights
The Cost of Logging in 2022 👷♂️
You added winston library to your Node.js app; how much of a hit your througput took? Do you think 1%? More like 50%! Yes, logging is expensive. Although Matteo offers their own Pino library for logging, this post shows the real price you pay in terms of performance for observability.
Matteo Collina
#observability #performance
Breaking free from rising observability costs 👷♂️
Finally somebody broke down the explanation of the "You pay 3 times for the same observability data" notion which was discussed multiple times. See the evolution of observability tooling, 3 pillars of signals and how columnar dbs and OpenTelemetry unlocked the the solution to observability cost.
Mike Shi
#observability #cost
Your AI Product Needs Evals 👷♂️
Recently I was explaining a playbook to a set of managers how to run AI-driven projects(let me know if you're interested too!); feedback is a crucial part of it! Hamel Husain explains why ai results evaluation is so important and how to implement it.
#ai #qa
Follow-Up
Autoscaling Kubernetes Pods based on HTTP Traffic 👷♂️
One of the performance tactic is horizontal scaling. However, it should rely on certain signals, and traffic is one of them. Grab a practical guide how to configure Horizontal Auto-Scaler in Kubernetes,
#kubernetes
PostgreSQL FOR UPDATE vs FOR NO KEY Update 👷♂️
SELECT FOR UPDATE is the common mechanism to serialize update; but in some cases it can be too strict. Updating the post in a social network should not prevent you from writing comments to this post. For such a case there is SELECT FOR NO KEY UPDATE. Find the deep dive in this Vlad Mihalcea's post.
vladmihalcea
#db #performance
The CTO's Todo list 🍼
One of the challenge of every technical manager is the work visibility; CTO is the ultimate case. Etienne de Bruin wrote an awesome piece on how you're seen by CEO, investors, clients and your own technical team and advise what to change in your behavior to change the narrative.
Etienne de Bruin
#cto
Data fabrics and data lakes 👷♂️
In order to create a compliance-related report like DAC7 at Supplied we had to build a data architecture which allows to import data from different sources, combine them in a particular measure and then use for report generation itself. Apparently we were right in our architecture approach(no surprise though given the team 😄 ). Fivetran basically calls what we create a data fabric, where universal data storage is a corner stone.
Casey Karst
#dataarchitecture
Harvest, Yield and Scalable Tolerant Systems 🤟
The best practical application of CAP theorem that everyone sees literally everyday is the sacrifice of correctness and fulness of data in favor of availability. To really understand why it is so, read the paper on the Harvest, Yield and their measure in partial tolerant systems.
#distributedsystems #paper
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