10 items tagged “architecture”
2024
(Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup (via) Absolutely fascinating post by Jack Lindamood talking about services, tools and processes used by his startup and which ones turned out to work well v.s. which ones are now regretted.
I’d love to see more companies produce lists like this.
2022
Architecture Notes: Datasette (via) I was interviewed for the first edition of Architecture Notes—a new publication (website and newsletter) about software architecture created by Mahdi Yusuf. We covered a bunch of topics in detail: ASGI, SQLIte and asyncio, Baked Data, plugin hook design, Python in WebAssembly, Python in an Electron app and more. Mahdi also turned my scrappy diagrams into beautiful illustrations for the piece.
2020
If microservices are implemented incorrectly or used as a band-aid without addressing some of the root flaws in your system, you'll be unable to do new product development because you're drowning in the complexity.
2019
Serverless Microservice Patterns for AWS (via) A handy collection of 19 architectural patterns for AWS Lambda collected by Jeremy Daly.
2018
How the Citus distributed database rebalances your data. Citus is a fascinating implementation of database sharding built on top of PostgreSQL primitives. PostgreSQL 10 introduced extremely flexible logical replication—in this post Craig Kerstiens explains how Citus use this new ability to re-balance shards (e.g. when you move from two to four physical PostgreSQL nodes) without downtime.
2017
The denormalized query engine design pattern
I presented this talk at DjangoCon 2017 in Spokane, Washington. Below is the abstract, the slides and the YouTube video of the talk.
[... 356 words]2010
The easiest way to have no-downtime upgrades is have an architecture that can tolerate some subset of their processes to be down at any time. De-SPOF and this gets easier (not that de-SPOFing is always trivial).
2009
Twitter, an Evolving Architecture. The most detailed write-up of Twitter’s current architecture I’ve seen, explaining the four layers of cache (all memcached) used by the Twitter API.
2008
Twitter, or Architecture Will Not Save You. Kellan is not an armchair architect. He also doesn’t mention Rails once. Well worth reading.
The GigaOM Interview: Mark Zuckerberg. Some interesting titbits on Facebook’s architecture.