ByteByteGo·3yEP76: Netflix's Tech Stack
In this CEO-approved slide deck, you’ll find simple ways to communicate how your team is increasing engineering efficiency. For too many engineering leaders, the most stressful part of their job isn’t a bug or a system crash. The CTO Board Deck is your secret weapon for owning any boardroom you enter.
ByteByteGo·3yEP56: System Design Blueprint: The Ultimate Guide
Amazon has created a unique build system, known as Brazil, to enhance productivity and empower Amazon’s micro-repo driven collaboration. McDonald's standardizes events using the following components: an event registry to define a standardized schema. An event gateway that performs identity authentication and authorization.
David Heinemeier Hansson·3yEven Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices
The Prime Video team at Amazon has published a rather remarkable case study on their decision to dump their serverless, microservices architecture and replace it with a monolith instead. This move saved them a staggering 90% on operating costs, and simplified the system too. But beyond celebrating their good sense, I think there's a bigger point here.
freeCodeCamp·3yFull-Stack Development with Next.js, TypeScript, and AWS
Full-Stack Development with Next.js, TypeScript, and AWS Amplify is a new full stack app course. The course goes deeper into backend development. It's a great chance to enhance your skills. Watch the full course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel.
AWS Tip·3yMicroservices design
The application is deployed in Amazon ECS as a single service that’s scalable and highly available. As the app has grown, we’ve noticed that content delivery becomes a bottleneck during normal operations. To deal with these issues, we decided to split the app into three microservices: Course Catalog, Content Delivery and Progress Tracking.
Community Picks·3yBackends for Frontends Pattern
Backend for Frontend pattern allows frontend clients to load UI-ready data projections and to refresh the UI with event-driven notifications. The BFF pattern has been adopted by companies like Netflix, where their Android team seamlessly swapped the API backend of the Netflix Android app, enabling them to work with their endpoint.
gitconnected·3y10 Best Coding and Programming Interview Books in 2023
10 Best Coding and Programming Interview Books in 2023. In the past, I have hared some of the best online courses to prepare coding interviews. These books are enough to crack even the toughest of the job interviews at Amazon, or Microsoft. They provide excellent coverage of all essential topics for programming job interviews.
AWS Tip·3yNextJS: Data Fetching Strategies for Server Side Components
NextJS is an extension of ReactJS that provides features like Server Side components, Client and Server Rendering, Data fetching with revalidation and built in optimizations. NextJS gives us freedom to decide if we want a component to be rendered at client or server.
DZone·3yWeb Application Architecture: The Latest Guide
Web Application Architecture is an underlying web application architecture that makes this process possible. Choosing the right design defines your company growth, reliability and interoperability and future IT needs. A web app architecture presents a layout with all the software components (such as databases, applications and middleware) and how they interact with each other.
Pointer·3yDovAmir/awesome-design-patterns: A curated list of software and architecture related design patterns.
Software design pattern- A general, reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design. It is a description or template for how to solve a problem that can be used in many different situations. This website accompanies the book Reactive Design Patterns by Roland Kuhn.
ByteByteGo·3yEP54: Cache Systems Every Developer Should Know
Become a better tech leader in 10 mins a week (Sponsored) Refactoring is a weekly newsletter about writing great software and working well together. Receive a new essay every Thursday with practical advice about your work. Join a private community of tech leaders, founders, and engineers.
KDnuggets·3yHow Hard is it to Get into FAANG Companies
In the last two years, FAANG companies alone were responsible for over 50,000 layoffs. The acronym was coined by CNBC’s Jim Cramer in 2013. FAANG is a stand in for tech companies at large – think Microsoft, AirBnb, and Spotify. After 60k layoffs, these companies probably have tons of talented applicants.
Hacker Noon·3yThe Easiest and Hardest Programming Languages to Learn
The Easiest and Hardest Programming Languages to Learn are called programming languages. Computer systems are completely dependent on human beings to train them to take decisions. High-level languages have been developed which consist of English language words to help human beings program the computer systems.
AWS Tip·3yDesigning Event-Driven Architecture
Serverless represents abstracting your computing infrastructure to the point that you have no responsibilities for the servers on which your code runs. The idea behind Event-Driven Architectures is use of events to communicate between decoupled services, use events to trigger or invoke the service.
Semaphore·3y10 Best Alternatives To ChatGPT: Developer Edition
Semaphore ChatGPT has been on the rise since its introduction. It completely changed how everyone, including developers, uses AI. This chatbot has significantly improved numerous areas, such as precise search results, enhanced human skills, and coding.
Discover .NET·3yBiggest scam in software dev? Best Practices.
CodeOpinion Sponsor: Do you build complex software systems? See how NServiceBus makes it easier to design, build, and manage software systems that use message queues to achieve loose coupling. Get started for free. What’s the biggest scam in tech that is deemed acceptable?
DZone·3yMastering Node.js: The Ultimate Guide
Node.js has become immensely popular and widely adopted for web development due to its speed, scalability, and flexibility. It allows developers to run JavaScript code outside of a web browser, making it possible to use JavaScript for server-side scripting and building scalable network applications. Join the DZone community and get the full member experience.
Medium·3yDesigning a Fault-Tolerant Web Application: Building a Highly Available 3-Tier Architecture
A 3-tier architecture is a type of software architecture that is commonly used to develop web-based applications. The architecture consists of three layers or tiers, each responsible for different functions. The three tiers are interconnected and communicate with each other through well-defined interfaces.
Python in Plain English·3yThis Book is “Perfect” for Learning Python
The book is written in a clear and concise style, making it easy to follow along with the examples and exercises. The author has done an excellent job of breaking down complex concepts into simple, easy-to-understand language that even a beginner can comprehend. The book includes several practical projects, including data visualization and app development.
DZone·3yDocker Alternatives
DZone will explore the Docker alternatives to your SaaS application. Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. Join For Free Docker technology has revolutionized the infrastructure management landscape in such a way that Docker has now become a synonym for containers.
Community Picks·3yAnimation Is Eating The World
Animation is the highest form of art because it involves nearly every creative process and discipline to create a final product. The history of animation teaches us lessons in evolving creation, technology, distribution, and scale that breeds new business models. The earliest animation platforms started as crude hardware implementations such as the Thamutrope, and Zoetrope.
Redis·3yBuild an Ecommerce Chatbot With Redis, LangChain, and OpenAI
Build an Ecommerce Chatbot with Redis, LangChain, and OpenAI. Build an ecommerce chatbot. Build a conversational retail shopping assistant that helps customers find items of interest that are buried in a product catalog. For the retail chatbot, we chose to work with the Amazon Berkeley Objects dataset.
Amplication·3yAmazon Ditches Microservices for Monolith: Decoding Prime Video's Architectural Shift
Amazon Ditches Microservices for Monolith: Decoding Prime Video's Architectural Shift. This all stemmed from a blog post they published in March, sharing how they cut 90% of their costs by migrating their microservices architecture to a monolith. Amazon's tool was broken into three main components: the media converter, defect detectors, and orchestration.
ByteByteGo·3yEP59: 90% Cost Slash: From Serverless to Monolith
New Relic Grok is the World’s First Generative AI Observability Assistant. This week's system design refresher: Top 7 Most-Used Distributed System Patterns. The two most expensive operations are: 1. The orchestration workflow - AWS step functions charge users by state transitions and the orchestration performs multiple state transitions every second.
AWS in Plain English·3yAWS DevOps: Continuous Docker Deployment to AWS Fargate from GitHub using Terraform
AWS DevOps: Continuous Docker Deployment to AWS Fargate from GitHub using Terraform. This DevOps pipeline will allow developers to push code changes to a GitHub repository and have them automatically deployed to anAWF cluster. The provided Terraform code leverages these services to create an automated deployment pipeline for your application.