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YCSB with Transactions — Measuring the Costs of Distributed Consensus

Co-Author: Yingyi Tong, Northeastern University

Mar 4

YCSB with Transactions — Measuring the Costs of Distributed Consensus

Mar 4

Ian Gorton

Scaling up REST versus gRPC Benchmark Tests

TL:DR

Jun 19, 2023

Scaling up REST versus gRPC Benchmark Tests

Jun 19, 2023

Ian Gorton

Agile Dead Trees Monolith: Architecture Kata Implementation in Spring

Ian Gorton and Yingyi Tong

Apr 27, 2023

Agile Dead Trees Monolith: Architecture Kata Implementation in Spring

Apr 27, 2023

Ian Gorton

Technical Credit. The Other Side of the Technical Debt Coin.

Technical debt is an established concept in the world of software engineering. It essentially encompasses an inevitable side effect of…

Mar 28, 2023

Technical Credit. The Other Side of the Technical Debt Coin.

Mar 28, 2023

Ian Gorton
in
The Startup

Building Scalable Distributed Systems: Part 2 — Distributed System Architecture Blueprint: A…

In this article, we’ll introduce some of the fundamental approaches to scaling a software system. The type of systems this series of…

Aug 9, 2020

Basic system architecture

Aug 9, 2020

Ian Gorton
in
Level Up Coding

Don’t Accept the Defaults! How to Reduce Costs with Google App Engine Autoscaling

Serverless technologies such as Google App Engine (GAE) and AWS Lambda are powerful platforms for cloud-based software systems. The ease…

Jul 3, 2020

GAE Scheduler for Autoscaling an application as load increases

Jul 3, 2020

Ian Gorton
in
Dev Genius

Scalability and Cost Analysis for Cloud-Based Software Systems (Part 1)

The transition of major organizational IT systems from on-premise to public cloud platforms deployments seems inexorable. Here are some…

Jun 19, 2020

Performance results for each different language implementation.

Jun 19, 2020

Ian Gorton
in
The Startup

Building Scalable Distributed Systems: Part 1 — Introduction to Scalable Systems

The last 20 years have seen unprecedented growth in the size, complexity, and capacity of software systems. This rate of growth is hardly…

May 10, 2020

With one server we can process 100 requests per second. If we deploy 3 servers, we can process 300 requests per second.

May 10, 2020

Ian Gorton

Code has Defects. It Doesn’t F*?^-ing Smell!!

Imagine a civil engineer examining the detailed plans for a new office tower. They see a fancy, aesthetically pleasing structural design…

Apr 16, 2020

Apr 16, 2020

Ian Gorton

Six Rules of Thumb for Scaling Software Architectures

We live in an age where massive scale, Internet-facing systems like Google, Amazon, Facebook and the like are engineering icons. They…

Apr 3, 2020

Shows how increased server capacity can lead to a bottleneck in a shared database

Apr 3, 2020

Ian Gorton

Ian Gorton

Software architect, author, professor, teacher. Fascinated by the principles and technologies for building scalable distributed systems.

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