Distributed Systems Observability

By Cindy Sridharan

Observability has been a hot topic in the context of distributed systems for the last few years. In this report, Cindy Sridharan offers an overview of what observability is, along with tips on how you can use these ideas on your own systems.

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“Don’t Get Locked Up into Avoiding Lock-In”

By Gregor Hohpe

In this article, Gregor Hohpe shares some incredibly useful tools for architects to reason about the perils of vendor lock-in. It’s essential reading if you’re thinking of adopting a cloud platform.

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Designing Event-Driven Systems

By Ben Stopford

This report by Ben Stopford explores how streaming technology like Kafka can fundamentally change the way we think about storing, and sharing, data.

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“1968”

By Kevlin Henney

So many of the ideas that are popular now build upon the foundations of the work that came before. This talk by Kevlin Henney looks at the ideas that came to the fore in a very important year for software engineering: 1968.

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Cloud Native Transformation

By Michelle Gienow, Jamie Dobson, and Pini Reznik

Many organizations struggle to properly embrace the power of the cloud. This book by Pini Reznik, Michelle Gienow, and Jamie Dobson outlines the patterns you can bring to bear to make this transformation a reality.

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