Service Oriented Architecture for Robust and Scalable Systems
Explore Service Oriented Architecture for robust, scalable systems. Learn design principles, benefits, and real-world examples to enhance software maintainability and team efficiency.
Message Processing Failed! But What's the Root Cause?
Explore techniques for investigating failures in distributed systems, including modeling, integration testing, and OpenTelemetry instrumentation to enhance system observability.
Knowledge is Imperfect - Acting on Stale, Inconsistent or Missing Data
Explore strategies for handling imperfect data in decision support, disaster response, and connected devices. Learn to address challenges in distributed systems and improve data quality.
The Smallest Distributed System
Explore lessons learned from building Travis CI's distributed system, focusing on simplicity, resilience, and handling failures. Gain insights on evolving from a monolithic to a distributed architecture.
Reactive Systems - 21st Architecture for 21st Century Systems
Explore reactive systems architecture for modern software design. Learn about asynchronous messaging, isolation, back-pressure, and microservices to build scalable, resilient applications suited for 21st-century challenges.
Jepsen IV - Hope Springs Eternal
Explore distributed systems' reliability challenges and Jepsen's role in uncovering hidden flaws. Learn about recent findings in databases and coordination services.
Mythbusting Remote Procedure Calls
Debunking myths about Remote Procedure Calls in distributed systems. Explores origins, evolution, and limitations of RPC, highlighting challenges in networked applications and alternative approaches.
It's All a Numbers Game - The Dirty Little Secret of Scalable Systems
Explore high-performance computing and scalable systems design, focusing on cost-effective solutions, performance optimization, and practical strategies for handling increased transaction volumes.
Riak & Dynamo, Five Years Later
Reflection on Riak and distributed databases, discussing successes, challenges, and future prospects. Insights into NoSQL evolution since Amazon's Dynamo paper, with focus on Riak's journey and innovations.
Introduction to NoSQL
Comprehensive overview of NoSQL databases, covering history, data models, consistency, and use cases. Explores key-value, document, column-family, and graph models, discussing their strengths and applications.
40 Years of Pretending
Explores issues with Remote Procedure Call (RPC) in distributed systems, its resurgence in modern development, and actionable alternatives for more robust network communication.
Navigating Unstructured Data - Availability vs Analytics in NoSQL
Explore factors affecting database technology choices, focusing on distributed systems and prioritizing availability vs. analytics in NoSQL environments for unstructured data workloads.
Beyond the Data Grid - Fast Data Processing with Apache Ignite
Explore Apache Ignite's high-performance distributed in-memory data management capabilities for boosting application performance and scalability in this insightful presentation by co-founder Dmitriy Setrakyan.
Easy Scaling with Open Source Data Structures
Explore distributed programming with Hazelcast, an open-source solution for easy scaling. Learn about data structures, partitioning, and practical applications in this informative talk.
Don't Give Up on Serializability Just Yet
Explore serializability in distributed databases, its benefits, and challenges. Learn about consistency models, transaction execution, and the balance between consistency and performance in modern systems.
Applying the Saga Pattern
Explore the Saga Pattern for managing distributed transactions in complex systems. Learn about compensating transactions, failure management, and implementation strategies for building robust distributed applications.
Coordination-Free Computations
Explore distributed query execution in Dynamo-style systems, focusing on achieving high availability and fault tolerance through commutative and idempotent operations in replication systems.
The 7 Quests of Resilient Software Design
Explore key obstacles and pitfalls in creating resilient systems, learning to identify and address them for improved robustness in software design and architecture.
Bringing Magic to Microservice Architecture Development
Explore solutions for streamlining microservice development in Kubernetes, addressing challenges like feedback loops and multi-service testing to enhance developer productivity and system complexity management.
The Do's and Don'ts of Error Handling
Explore error handling best practices for fault-tolerant systems, focusing on Erlang principles like "Let It Crash" and concurrent programming techniques for robust software design.
Achieving Consensus in Blockchain-based Systems
Explore blockchain consensus mechanisms, from Bitcoin's proof-of-work to alternatives like proof-of-stake, examining their strengths and challenges in decentralized systems.