Architecture Weekly Issue #68. 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 as well.
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Highlights
Datadog long-awaited postmortem 👷♂️
Datadog had a 24 hours long outage on March, 8th. Datadog being an observability company was kinda expected to publish the postmortem soon enough, but 2 months later there was nothing published. Some researchers ever tried to write their own version, but luckily the company decided to publish the PM themselves. Read a fascinating story on how Linux upgrades can get you down even if you're deployed to 3 different cloud providers for reliability.
Datadog
#pm #reliability #upgrade
What Happens When You Type an URL Into Your Browser?
I remember several years ago I was going through an interview in Amazon. After the questions about the cloud advantages, the interviewer asked the questions in the title. And I think I managed to do pretty well: I described the 21h interruption, the events in the operating system, the DNS stuff including local caches, HTTP protocol... There was no second interview. So in case you get the same question - get the answer below!
NK
#systemdesign
How to run a Decision-Making Architecture Board 🍼
The autonomy of decisions in team is a good thing; however if the organization just allows everybody to do whatever they want, it soon will face a zoo of technologies and approaches. So at some point it makes sense to have a board where at least those decisions can be discussed. How to create and run one? Read a guest post in the blog of Olad Zommermann!
#adr #architectureboard
Follow-up
Raft does not guarantee liveness in the face of Network Faults 🍼
Well, Raft as one of the consensus algorithms should guarantee the leader election during network faults. This post(but rather old one) showcased the 2 cases where the leader will not be able to be elected. The fixes suggested in article as well, so take a closer look.
#distributedsystem #raft #consensus
Core Solution Architecture Methods 👷♂️
I am sharing an article from the Solution Architecture training. In this chapter the shared vision is considered: what you actually need to do in order to share the understanding of the system including defining boundaries, external interfaces, internal components etc. Get more details inside!
Karandeep Kaur
#architecture #documentation
Hotspot performance engineering fails 🍼
Some companies believe that software can be fast, if you find some hotspots in the code and optimize those. But as an architect, you can easily guess that enormous performance problems happen from inappropriate architecture. Daniel Lemire explains it in little more detail.
View all posts by Daniel Lemire
#performance #pareto
Postgres Superpowers in Practice 👷♂️
Postgres being a universal database for the majority of small and medium enterprises gets supported by the post of Oskar Dudycz, where he demonstrates how you can turn PostgreSQL into a multimodal database using the extensions. Look, how easy to convert it for example into a time-series db!
#db #postgres #timeseries
I built an AI Avatars Generator using Stable Diffusion 👷♂️
AI is on hype here. My colleague from Bolt wrote a blog post about how he made his own AI Avatars Generator. He describes the request ingestion, cron jobs, model deployment and training and provides the architecture he used. Follow the post!
Dias Sadykov
#ai #ml
Connecting Block Business Units with AWS API Gateway 🤟
Company acquisition or merging can be a tricky process from a technical perspective. Different ecosystems, programming languages, deployment and runtime approaches are among those complexities. However, Block(which is an owning company for Square and Cash App) does it almost on a regular basis. Find a very thorough post on how AWS API Gateway and Fargate help them integrate new companies into their infrastructure with minimal possible effort.
mweissbacher
#integration #cloud #aws