Distributed systems have unlocked high performance at a large scale and low latency. You can run your applications worldwide from the comfort of your Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform in California, but the user adding an item to their shopping cart in Japan will not notice any delay or system faults. However, distributed systems - and specifically distributed database systems - also malfunction.

In the modern age, everything runs on the cloud. The majority of modern applications are written with cloud technologies - they use public cloud providers for DNS, distributed caching, and distributed data stores. Cloud solutions are so popular among engineers because of their many advantages: But distributed systems are not impervious to breaking. Foursquare’s example is testimony that even the great and mighty experience failure within distributed systems.

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North Star metrics can be an effective strategy for aligning all teams around one goal. Here’s how 20+ companies selected their North Stars.

With the growing demand for online communication, there has been a noticeable increase in platforms to provide just that. With such service comes high expectations in quality and usability to become the best! We hear about those high expectations quite often, some people developing video calling applications that use CPaaS expect them to work and scale perfectly and don’t load test their own applications.

For most of my software engineering career, my experience with DevOps was all about configuration management. But after many years of experience with some key mentors, I began to see DevOps as so much more. In this article, I’ll summarize my DevOps evolution from a high level. If you’d like to go further in-depth, check out the recording from my Destination: Automation presentation below. ​​

The global increase of realtime data is spurred on by the steady rise of user demand for realtime digital experiences - from virtual events, news, and financial information to IoT devices. The Ably platform has been providing realtime infrastructure for over 5 years now , and we’ve seen, and helped, the demand increase first-hand. A few years ago, our customers only had realtime requirements for one or two specific features, usually around firing updates and notifications.

Excellent developers are the lifeblood of software companies. Therefore, organizations and HR teams must think hard about the values that make an individual the best fit for their teams. Different organizations follow different practices and working styles, and have unique preferences regarding a good candidate.

To paraphrase a popular Chinese proverb: “It is better to light a log line than to curse the darkness”. And yet it’s 2021, and many of us are still lost in the dark, struggling to find a match, praying for that one missing log line that would have pointed us in the right direction. How did things get this bad? Since time immemorial, we have relied on logging as the first trustworthy, intuitive, and straightforward debugging method.

Cloud native API Testing comes with a lot of challenges. In this video see how to overcome these challenges with the novel approach of traffic replay.