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Articles tagged with #architecture
Building distributed systems requires putting a lot of attention on communication between components. These components often need to exchange information asynchronously, and that's where message queues and pub/sub systems are the go-to solution. AWS ...
Database failures are inevitable. Even with the most reliable hardware and software, something will eventually break. AWS RDS Multi-AZ deployments promise to handle these failures gracefully, automatically failing over to a standby database when prob...
Imagine this scenario: You successfully replicated your data to another region, so if your AWS region fails you can still access the data. However, all your servers are still down! You'd like to continue operating even in the event of a disaster. Dis...
Note: This content was originally published at the Simple AWS newsletter. Imagine this scenario: You have some data that's absolutely critical to your business. If you lose it, it's a disaster! How do you recover? Data Loss Scenarios First, we need t...
Note: This content was originally published at the Simple AWS newsletter. As you probably know, DynamoDB is a NoSQL database. It's a managed, serverless service, meaning you just create a Table (that's the equivalent of a Database in Postgres), and A...
The first rule about microservices is that you don't need microservices (for 99% of applications). They were invented as a REST-based implementation of Service-Oriented Architectures, which is an XML-based Enterprise Architecture pattern so complex t...
