In Defense Of Simple Architectures
- Dan Luu tl;dr: Dan discusses the effectiveness of simple architectures in software development, using Wave, a $1.7B company, as an example. Wave's architecture is a Python monolith on top of Postgres, allowing engineers to focus on delivering value to users. The article emphasizes that simple architectures can be created more cheaply and easily than complex ones, even for high-traffic apps. Despite the trend towards complex, microservice-based architectures, Dan argues for the "unreasonable effectiveness" of monoliths, detailing Wave's choices, mistakes, and areas of unavoidable complexity. Simplicity in architecture can lead to success, allowing companies to allocate complexity where it benefits the business.featured in #595
27 Fundamental Techniques For Software Architects
- Patrick Roos tl;dr: “This comprehensive collection gives architects the techniques they need to not only design solid architectures, but to seamlessly align them with business goals. Learn how these techniques enable architects and teams to make informed decisions, minimise risk, and communicate effortlessly with stakeholders.”featured in #595
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How Uber Uses Ray To Optimize The Rides Business
tl;dr: “To manage the health and efficiency of the mobility marketplace, Uber has several levers it can adjust, such as offering incentives for drivers to complete a certain number of trips per week or promotions that provide riders with discounts on their trips. Figuring out how to set these levers to efficiently achieve various targets and maximize outcomes is both a technically challenging task and a high-value opportunity for the company.”featured in #582
27 Fundamental Techniques For Software Architects
- Patrick Roos tl;dr: “This comprehensive collection gives architects the techniques they need to not only design solid architectures, but to seamlessly align them with business goals. Learn how these techniques enable architects and teams to make informed decisions, minimise risk, and communicate effortlessly with stakeholders.”featured in #582
27 Fundamental Techniques For Software Architects
- Patrick Roos tl;dr: “This comprehensive collection gives architects the techniques they need to not only design solid architectures, but to seamlessly align them with business goals. Learn how these techniques enable architects and teams to make informed decisions, minimise risk, and communicate effortlessly with stakeholders.”featured in #581
The Foundations Of Canva’s Continuous Data Platform With Snowpipe Streaming
- Jack Caperon tl;dr: “Over the past 5 years, Canva’s monthly active users have more than tripled from 60 million active users to over 200 million. In that time, Canva has also grown to over 4500 employees. As a result, the multiplicative effect of more questions from more internal customers with our user base generating bigger answers has driven us to find ways of scaling our product analytics platform for the future.”featured in #580
Systems Ideas That Sound Good But Almost Never Work
- Steven Sinofsky tl;dr: “I started my list with “let’s just” because 9 out of 10 times when someone says “let’s just” what follows is going to be ultimately way more complicated than anyone in the room thought it would be. I’m going to say “9 out of 10 times” a lot below on purpose because…experience. I offer an example of two below but for each there are probably a half dozen I lived through.”featured in #580
Systems Ideas That Sound Good But Almost Never Work
- Steven Sinofsky tl;dr: “I started my list with “let’s just” because 9 out of 10 times when someone says “let’s just” what follows is going to be ultimately way more complicated than anyone in the room thought it would be. I’m going to say “9 out of 10 times” a lot below on purpose because…experience. I offer an example of two below but for each there are probably a half dozen I lived through.”featured in #579
Indexing Code At Scale With Glean
- Simon Marlow Pepe Iborra tl;dr: “We’ll talk about why a system like Glean is important, explain the rationale for Glean’s design, and run through some of the ways we’re using Glean to supercharge our developer tooling at Meta.”featured in #578