Everything I know about good system design
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…
Posts tagged architecture
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We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes
Like the pdp-10 had
Some possible reasons for 8-bit bytes
An interesting walk down history lane… of computers
Radical Simplicity in Technology | Join the movement
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 – Bring visibility to your codebase
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.
The Basics of Database Sharding - Brent Ozar Unlimited®
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...
Scalable architecture without magic (and how to build it if you’re not Google)
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 ...
ferd.ca -> Queues Don't Fix Overload
Really Excellent article about queues, overloads, bottlenecks and architecture