A benchmark and cost analysis of Bufstream, with a comparison to Apache Kafka.

The blog post will share the four phases of Real-time Data Infrastructure’s iterative journey in Netflix (2015-2021). For each phase, we will go over the evolving business motivations, the team’s unique challenges, the strategy bets, and the use case patterns we discovered along the way.

Two chapters from the book Understanding Distributed Systems by Roberto Vitillo

Sometimes developers only care about speed. Ignoring all the other advantages messaging has, they’ll ask us the following question: “But isn’t RPC faster than messaging?” In place of RPC, 1 they may…

By Jennifer Shin, Tejas Shikhare, Will Emmanuel

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Why software fails and how you can practically address it with a six-step plan

Back of the napkin math to estimate what cloud software will cost as you're building it.

Three distinct perspectives on scale that come along with building and operating a storage system the size of S3.

Learn everything you want to know about logging. Go from basics to best practices in no time.

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This blog post covers AWS Lambda layers basics, the pros and cons, and my recommended best practices.

Normalizing standards for building microservices provide strong, consistent software anyone can pick up and maintain

A practical, goal based approach to studying DevOps from scratch

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