#33 Be Careful: Exploding Costs That Might Kill Your Product
Infrastructure costs can unexpectedly increase and harm your project success. Here are several common issues that repeatedly cause budget problems in software projects.
No EC2 or Kubernetes Allowed: Insights from Building Serverless-Only Architecture at PostNL
PostNL shared insights and guidance from its transition from outsourced IT project delivery to an in-house product delivery capability. By embracing cloud-native technologies, with an emphasis on serverless services, the company achieved significant gains in productivity and market responsiveness while reducing operational costs.
With Email Routing, you can effectively start receiving Emails in any of your domains for any number of custom addresses you want and forward the messages to any existing destination mailboxes
Everything you need to quickly get prepared for FAANG system design interviews. Written by former Meta and Amazon interviewers, this guide breaks down the core concepts, patterns, frameworks, and technologies needed to ace your system design interviews. It also breaks down some of the most commonly asked system design questions and provides detailed answers.
Don’t Believe the Big Database Hype, Stonebraker Warns
How we store and serve data are critical factors in what we can do with data, and today we want to do oh-so much. That big data necessity is the mother of
Caches help reduce latency, scale read-heavy workloads, and save cost. They are literally everywhere. Caches run on your phone and in your browser. For example, CDNs and DNS are essentially geo-rep…
Migrating enterprise apps stuck on legacy technologies
Enterprise applications often have a hefty and complex code base, mission-critical functionality, and a constant influx of feature demands that can result in a slower pace of dependency updates and a tendency to lag behind. This situation can worsen over time, as certain high-profile dependencies become outdated or discontinued, preventing the update of interlocked dependencies and leading to a cascade of technological stagnation. Eventually, this can reach a critical point, requiring big bang migrations to break free from the constraints of problematic legacy technologies.
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