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Designing Resilient Event-Driven Systems at Scale
Learn how to design resilient event-driven systems that scale. Explore key patterns like shuffle sharding and decoupling queues to handle load spikes and failures. Understand common pitfalls like over-relying on retries and neglecting observability for robust, scalable architectures.
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Distributed Cloud Computing: Enhancing Privacy with AI-Driven Solutions
Distributed cloud, PETs, and AI enable secure, private data processing. This integration enhances collaboration, security, and compliance across marketing, finance, and healthcare, addressing the growing need for data protection.
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DiRMA: Measuring How Your Organization Manages Chaos
Elevate your disaster recovery strategy with DiRMA—an innovative framework for assessing and enhancing Disaster Recovery Testing (DiRT) maturity across people, processes, and tools. As chaos engineering becomes essential for resilience, DiRMA guides organizations through structured improvement, addressing cultural hurdles and ensuring robust recovery readiness in the face of modern challenges.
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Checklist for Kubernetes in Production: Best Practices for SREs
This article provides SREs with a checklist for managing Kubernetes in production environments. It identifies common challenges including resource management, workload placement, high availability, health probes, storage, monitoring, and cost optimization. By implementing consistent GitOps automation across these areas, teams can significantly reduce complexity, and prevent downtime.
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2025 Article Contest: Win Your Conference Ticket
The InfoQ Team is excited to invite you to participate in our annual article writing competition. Authors of top-rated articles will win complimentary tickets to prominent software development conferences such as QCon and InfoQ Dev Summit.
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Being Functionless: How to Develop a Serverless Mindset to Write Less Code!
Dynamic cloud services like AWS Lambda have revolutionized computing, leading to rapid deployment and innovation in serverless technology. However, over-reliance on Functions as a Service (FaaS) can create complex architectures and increase costs. Adopting a functionless mindset and leveraging native service integrations fosters simplicity, enhances sustainability, and optimizes efficiency.
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Transforming Legacy Healthcare Systems: a Journey to Cloud-Native Architecture
Discover how Livi navigated the complexities of transitioning MJog, a legacy healthcare system, to a cloud-native architecture, sharing valuable insights for successful tech modernization. Our experience illustrates that transitioning from legacy systems to cloud-based microservices is not a one-time project, but an ongoing journey.
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Optimizing Wellhub Autocomplete Service Latency: a Multi-Region Architecture
Every company wants fast, reliable, and low-latency services. Achieving these goals requires significant investment and effort. In this article, I will share how Wellhub invested in a multi-region architecture to achieve a low-latency autocomplete service.
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How to Minimize Latency and Cost in Distributed Systems
Explore the benefits and challenges of microservices architecture in cloud environments, focusing on achieving resilience and high availability while managing costs and performance issues.
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Llama 3 in Action: Deployment Strategies and Advanced Functionality for Real-World Applications
This article details the enhanced capabilities of the open-source Llama 3 LLM, and how businesses can adopt the model in their applications. The author gives step-by-step instructions for deploying Llama 3 in the cloud or on-premise, and how to leverage fine-tuned versions for specific tasks.
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Cloud Waste Management: How to Optimize Your Cloud Resources
The 2024 "State of FinOps" survey results of the FinOps Foundation mentioned that organizations' top priorities have shifted to reducing cloud waste or unused resources. This article delves into understanding how to manage cloud waste.
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Uber's Blueprint for Zero-Downtime Migration of Complex Trip Fulfillment Platform
In large-scale distributed systems, migrating critical systems from one architecture to another is technically challenging and involves a delicate migration process. Uber operates one of the most intricate real-time fulfillment systems globally. This article will cover the techniques to migrate such a workload from on-prem to a hybrid cloud architecture with zero downtime and business impact.