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Netflix OSS and Spring Boot?—?Coming Full Circle

Netflix Tech

Coming Full Circle Taylor Wicksell, Tom Cellucci, Howard Yuan, Asi Bross, Noel Yap, and David Liu In 2007, Netflix started on a long road towards fully operating in the cloud. Ribbon for load balancing, Eureka for service discovery, and Hystrix for fault tolerance. such as the upcoming Spring Cloud Load Balancer?—?we

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Platform Engineering: The Next Step in Operations

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Unfortunately, we’ve ended up with a different problem: modern software systems can only be operated by the developers who created them. The problem is that software engineers want to do what software engineers do best, and that’s write cool new applications. That’s the challenge of platform engineering.

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Five World-Changing Software Innovations

LeanEssays

The system abstracted a cluster of storage into a single file system running on commodity hardware, used relaxed consistency, and hid the complexity of load balancing and failure recovery from users. It’s not that these strategies are unknown, it’s that they must become common practice for all software engineers in the organization.