{{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/44/images/1055997903.jpg" title="Understanding the significance of cloud | ThoughtWorks" link="https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/articles/understanding-clouds-significance" domain="thoughtworks.com" date="2020-06-29" tags="architecture, cloud, thoughtworks" excerpt="A whistle-stop tour of why cloud became the major platform for modern IT" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/44/images/1055997643.jpg" title="The Architect Elevator — Visiting the upper floors" link="https://martinfowler.com/articles/architect-elevator.html" domain="martinfowler.com" date="2020-06-22" tags="architecture, tech, thoughtworks" excerpt="Architects in traditional organizations need to ride the elevator between executive penthouse and digital engine room." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/44/images/1055997896.png" title="Machine learning makes finding the right tech on the Xero app marketplace e" link="https://devblog.xero.com/machine-learning-helps-small-businesses-find-the-right-tech-on-the-xero-app-marketplace-4867515de66e" domain="devblog.xero.com" date="2020-06-09" tags="architecture, tech, ai" excerpt="At Xero, we’re on a mission to get more apps into the hands of small business owners, because we know when they’re connected to the right technology, they’re more likely to see increased revenue and…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/44/images/1055997890.png" title="Bakedbean.org.uk - Developing Stack Overflow on MacOS" link="https://bakedbean.org.uk/posts/2020-05-stack-overflow-on-macos" domain="bakedbean.org.uk" date="2020-06-09" tags="architecture, code, programming, tech" excerpt="After a whole lot of months in the making we finally finished porting Stack Overflow to .NET Core 3.1 🎉! When you hit any part of Stack Overflow or the wider Stack Exchange network you’re now hitting our main application running on .NET Core behind IIS using the in-process execut" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/44/images/1055997749.png" title="Web Developer Roadmap in 2019 – Yogeswaran" link="https://yogeswaran.home.blog/2019/03/19/web-developer-roadmap-in-2019" domain="yogeswaran.home.blog" date="2020-06-09" tags="architecture, career, programming, tech" excerpt="Introduction to Web Development Front-end Development Roadmap Back-end Development Roadmap DevOps Roadmap" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/44/images/1055997867.webp" title="The System Thinking Change Agent Survival Guide | @johncutlefish's blog" link="https://cutle.fish/blog/the-system-thinking-change-agent-survival-guide" domain="cutle.fish" date="2020-06-09" tags="architecture, career, psychology, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/44/images/1055997881.jpg" title="Rebuilding our tech stack for a new Facebook.com - Facebook Engineering" link="https://engineering.fb.com/web/facebook-redesign" domain="engineering.fb.com" date="2020-05-25" tags="architecture, facebook, programming, tech" excerpt="Building a new web app for today’s browsers, we completely rebuilt our tech stack to achieve our goals for performance and sustainable future growth." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/44/images/1055997806.png" title="Why Atlassian uses an internal PaaS to regulate AWS access - Atlassian Deve" link="https://blog.developer.atlassian.com/why-atlassian-uses-an-internal-paas-to-regulate-aws-access" domain="blog.developer.atlassian.com" date="2020-05-25" tags="architecture, aws, devops, product, tech" excerpt="Unleashing the potential of all teams with tips, tools, and practices" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/44/images/1055997684.png" title="Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt." link="https://lethain.com/migrations" domain="lethain.com" date="2020-05-25" tags="architecture, product, tech" excerpt="Migrations are both essential and frustratingly frequent as your codebase ages and your business grows: most tools and processes only support about one order magnitude of growth before becoming ineffective, so rapid growth makes them a way of life. This post takes a look at why m" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/45/images/1055997868.png" title="What the Heck is Backstage Anyway? | Labs" link="https://engineering.atspotify.com/2020/03/what-the-heck-is-backstage-anyway" domain="engineering.atspotify.com" date="2020-05-25" tags="architecture, devops, product, programming, tech" excerpt="Yesterday, we released the open source version of , our homegrown developer portal. And we learned a thing or two via the feedback we received. So, I wanted to take this opportunity to further explain what we’re trying to do with Backstage — and more importantly, what we want to " >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/45/images/1055997860.jpg" title="Frederick Vanbrabant delirious rantings" link="https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2020-02-07-the-economics-of-clean-code/" domain="frederickvanbrabant.com" date="2020-02-19" tags="architecture, tech" excerpt="Clean code makes projects more comfortable to work with and improves shelf life. Its the antagonist of vile legacy codebases that are unmaintainable. Then why does business always treat it as a secondary objective? Do they just dont get it?" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/46/images/1055997854.webp" title="Anarchitecture - DEV Community ?‍??‍?" link="https://dev.to/risavkarna/anarchitecture-4eng" domain="dev.to" date="2020-01-13" tags="agile, architecture, tech" excerpt="Development in Post-Agile, Managerless Teams Software teams often need a personnel as a br..." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/46/images/1055997848.webp" title="Why Container Devs Need to Care about re:Invent 2019’s Serverless Launches" link="https://medium.com/@timawagner/not-using-serverless-yet-why-you-need-to-care-about-re-invent-2019s-serverless-launches-c26fa0263d77" domain="medium.com" date="2020-01-13" tags="architecture, aws, tech" excerpt="A field guide to the 2019 AWS re:Invent Serverless launches." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/46/images/1055997720.jpg" title="Defining SLOs for services with dependencies - CRE life lessons | Google Cl" link="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/defining-slos-for-services-with-dependencies-cre-life-lessons" domain="cloud.google.com" date="2020-01-10" tags="architecture, devops, distributed systems, tech" excerpt="Learn how to define and manage SLOs for services with dependencies, each of which may have their own SLOs." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/46/images/1055997642.webp" title="The Calculus of Service Availability: You’re only as available as the sum of your dependencies." link="https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3096459" domain="queue.acm.org" date="2020-01-10" tags="architecture, devops, distributed systems, tech" excerpt="Most services offered by Google aim to offer 99.99 percent (sometimes referred to as the \"four 9s\") availability to users. Some services contractually commit to a lower figure externally but set a 99.99 percent target internally. This more stringent target accounts for situatio" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/46/images/1055997826.png" title="We Overengineered a Teapot - Better Programming - Medium" link="https://medium.com/better-programming/we-overengineered-a-teapot-c718251ce897" domain="medium.com" date="2019-12-06" tags="architecture, programming, tech" excerpt="Overengineering is fun, but it can trick you and your team into thinking actual value is delivered." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/46/images/1055997651.webp" title="The Service Mesh: What Every Software Engineer Needs to Know about the Worl" link="https://servicemesh.io" domain="servicemesh.io" date="2019-12-04" tags="architecture, microservices, tech" excerpt="Architecturally, a service mesh is nothing more than a bunch of userspace proxies stuck next to your services plus a set of management processes" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Applying systems thinking in product design" link="https://www.intercom.com/blog/applying-systems-thinking-in-product-design" domain="intercom.com" date="2019-11-18" tags="architecture, design, product, tech" excerpt="Tips for using system thinking to prioritize problems when designing a product's foundation before tackling the specific interactions." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/46/images/1055997843.jpg" title="Are Your Microservices Overly Chatty? - The New Stack" link="https://thenewstack.io/are-your-microservices-overly-chatty" domain="thenewstack.io" date="2019-11-14" tags="architecture, tech" excerpt="Using synchronous communications, like REST, across an entire system makes it behave like a monolith. ironSource describes a different approach." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997729.webp" title="An Honest Review of AWS Managed Apache Kafka: Amazon MSK" link="https://medium.com/@stephane.maarek/an-honest-review-of-aws-managed-apache-kafka-amazon-msk-94b1ff9459d8" domain="medium.com" date="2019-11-07" tags="architecture, aws, tech" excerpt="This article was written when Amazon MSK was released in beta form and since then MSK has tremendously improved. I have created an online course in partnership with AWS to help you learn it and I’ve…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997837.png" title="Automated Continuous Deployment at Heroku | Heroku" link="https://blog.heroku.com/automated-continuous-deployment-at-heroku" domain="blog.heroku.com" date="2019-10-23" tags="architecture, devops, tech" excerpt="Over the past four years, the Heroku Runtime team has transitioned from occasional, manual deployments to continuous, automated deployments. Changes are now rolled out globally within a few hours of merging any change—without any human intervention. It's been an overwhelmingly po" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997831.png" title="Delta: A Data Synchronization and Enrichment Platform" link="https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/delta-a-data-synchronization-and-enrichment-platform-e82c36a79aee" domain="medium.com" date="2019-10-23" tags="architecture, data, tech" excerpt="Delta is an eventual consistent, event driven, data synchronization and enrichment platform built at Netflix." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997835.png" title="Open Sourcing Mantis: A Platform For Building Cost-Effective, Realtime, Ope" link="https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/open-sourcing-mantis-a-platform-for-building-cost-effective-realtime-operations-focused-5b8ff387813a" domain="medium.com" date="2019-10-23" tags="architecture, devops, tech" excerpt="Learn more about how Mantis provides on-demand data fetching, aggressive data reuse, and native autoscaling to help you minimize the costs of observing microservices without compromising on required a" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997827.png" title="How LinkedIn customizes Apache Kafka for 7 trillion messages per day | Link" link="https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/apache-kafka-trillion-messages" domain="engineering.linkedin.com" date="2019-10-21" tags="architecture, data, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997663.png" title="Big Data Processing at Spotify: The Road to Scio (Part 1) | Labs" link="https://engineering.atspotify.com/2017/10/big-data-processing-at-spotify-the-road-to-scio-part-1" domain="engineering.atspotify.com" date="2019-10-21" tags="architecture, data, tech" excerpt="This is the first part of a 2 part blog series. In this series we will talk about , a Scala API for and , and how we built the majority of our new data pipelines on Google Cloud with Scio." >}}