Tag: scalability

Episode 409: Joe Kutner on the Twelve-Factor App

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Episode 409: Joe Kutner on the Twelve-Factor App

Joe Kutner, Software Architect for Heroku at Salesforce.com, discusses the twelve-factor app. The twelve-factor app is a methodology that aids development of modern apps that are portable, scalable, and maintainable. Host Kanchan Shringi spoke with Kutner about the origin of these principles; their continued and growing importance with advances in microservices, DevOps, and containerization; and […]

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Episode 369: Derek Collison on Messaging Systems and NATS

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Episode 369: Derek Collison on Messaging Systems and NATS

Derek Collison of Synadia discusses messaging systems and the open source project NATS. Host Jeremy Jung spoke with Collison about different messaging patterns such as request reply, publish subscribe, and queuing.  They discuss how introducing a messaging system can solve problems like routing, load balancing, and security to simplify ops. They also go into how […]

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SE-Radio Episode 362: Simon Riggs on Advanced Features of PostgreSQL

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SE-Radio Episode 362: Simon Riggs on Advanced Features of PostgreSQL

Simon Riggs, founder and CTO of 2nd Quadrant, discusses the advanced features of the Postgres database, that allow developers to focus on applications whilst the database does the heavy lifting of handling large and diverse quantities of data. Host Simon Crossley spoke with Riggs about advanced SQL, indexes, extensibility and scale; using window functions to […]

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SE-Radio Episode 359: Engineering Maturity with Jean-Denis Greze

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SE-Radio Episode 359: Engineering Maturity with Jean-Denis Greze

Jean-Denis Greze of Plaid discusses Engineering Maturity and its importance in maintaining velocity while growing an engineering team grows.  Where engineering managers have not experienced rapid growth, related problems can grow out of hand. Host Nate Black spoke with Jean-Denis about his framework for understanding a team’s current maturity level; how to create a roadmap […]

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SE-Radio Episode 347: Daniel Corbett on Load Balancing and HAProxy

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SE-Radio Episode 347: Daniel Corbett on Load Balancing and HAProxy

Daniel Corbett of HAProxy discusses how load balancers such as HAProxy are used to improve application scalability, reliability, and security. Host Jeremy Jung spoke with Corbett to explain the concept of load and how a load balancer can distribute it across application servers; the open systems interconnection (OSI) model and how it relates to load […]

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