Building a Scalable and Resilient Architecture

This article is a summery of my DevoxxUK talk about microservices. Like many startups before us, Wix.com started as a…

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Looking for your aaS? (IaaS vs. PaaS vs. SaaS vs. BaaS)

Our API is getting a lot of traction these days.  We enable our customers to perform lookups against our masterfile…

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Multi-tier application + database deadlock or why databases aren’t queues (part1)

Databases aren’t queues. And despite the ubiquitous presence of queuing technology out there (ActiveMQ, MSMQ, MSSQL Service Broker, Oracle Advanced…

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5′ on IT-Architecture: the modern software architect

Before I start writing about this let me adjust something right at the beginning: Yes of course, there is the…

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Application Scalability: Still elusive for Enterprises Apps

The advent of the Consumer Business application like Facebook, Twitter has changed the definition of Application Scalability. Decade back 10…

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How to build a DIY Service Repository

Every Jedi faces the moment in their life when their Lightsaber simply fails to perform as expected and he or…

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Top 5 SOA gotchas and how to avoid them

After 5 years of designing and building award winning service oriented architectures, I thought I’d share my top 5 SOA…

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5′ on IT-Architecture: root concepts explained by the pioneers of software architecture

The last couple of weeks I am working on a new software architecture course specifically for the insurance and financial…

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Applying Back Pressure When Overloaded

How should a system respond when under sustained load? Should it keep accepting requests until its response times follow the…

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