Architecture & Design Round-Up

A Collection of Top Architecture & Design News, Articles, Presentations May 2024 [InfoQ] Architecture & Design Round-Up Sponsored by [Curity] [Latest Content](#latest-content), [Top Viewed Content](#top-viewed-content), [Top News](#news), [Top Presentations](#top-presentations), [Top Podcasts](#top-podcasts) In this special newsletter we bring you up to date on all the new content and news related to Architecture & Design on InfoQ. We are also maintaining a portal page for this content on InfoQ at: [(. [] Latest Content on InfoQ [9 Steps towards an Agile Architecture]( (articles, May 02, 2024) [API Access with Amazon Verified Permissions and Amazon Cognito]( (news, May 01, 2024) [Security Requires Traveling the Unhappy Path - a Conversation with Robert Hurlbut]( (podcasts, May 01, 2024) [Netflix Uses Elasticsearch Percolate Queries to Implement Reverse Searches Efficiently]( (news, Apr 29, 2024) [Reliable Web App Pattern Now Optimizes Azure Migration with Enhanced Infrastructure and Security]( (news, Apr 28, 2024) [[eBook] API Security for the Modern Enterprise]( This eBook covers the most critical aspects of securing APIs and microservices, managing identities, and utilizing standards like OAuth 2, OpenID Connect, and SCIM. [Download now](. Sponsored content [[eBook] API Security for the Modern Enterprise - Sponsored by Curity]( [] Top Viewed Content on InfoQ [InfoQ Software Architecture and Design Trends Report - April 2024]( (articles, Apr 05, 2024) [QCon London: Meta Used Monolithic Architecture to Ship Threads in Only Five Months]( (news, Apr 09, 2024) [Sleeping at Scale - Delivering 10k Timers per Second per Node with Rust, Tokio, Kafka, and Scylla]( (presentations, Apr 26, 2024) [Yelp Overhauls Its Streaming Architecture with Apache Beam and Apache Flink]( (news, Apr 22, 2024) [Effective Performance Engineering at Twitter-Scale]( (presentations, Apr 12, 2024) [] Top News [Allegro Reduces Kafka Producer Latency Outliers by 82% after Switching to XFS]( Allegro experimented with different performance optimization options to improve Apache Kafka producer tail latency and eventually switched all its clusters to the XFS filesystem. The company used Kafka protocol sniffing, JVM profiling, and eBPF, which proved instrumental in identifying and eliminating performance bottlenecks. [Microsoft Announces Garnet: a New Open-Source Cache-Store and Redis Alternative]( Microsoft Research has recently announced Garnet, an open-source cache-store designed to accelerate applications and services. Using the RESP wire protocol, Garnet is a faster alternative to cache-stores and is compatible with existing Redis clients. [QCon London: Mastering Long-Running Processes in Modern Architectures]( At QCon London 2024, Bernd Ruecker recommended implementing long-running tasks asynchronously with a process-orchestration platform. Such a platform provides better service boundaries and efficiencies and reduces accidental system complexity and risk. Organizing the platform centrally in an organization eases orchestration adoption by applications. [Single Page Application Security 101]( Learn how to solve the SPA security problem by exploring various web architectures, threats, and a standards-based solution called The Token Handler Pattern. Upon reading, you will get a stronger understanding of web security architecture design and the use of URLs and domains. [Read now](. Sponsored content [Single Page Application Security 101 - Sponsored by Curity]( [Azure Virtual Network Flow Logs for Enhanced Network Monitoring and Security Analysis]( Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Virtual Network flow logs, a new capability of the Network Watcher service in Azure. [.NET Aspire Preview 6: Enhanced Security and Testing, New Features, and More]( This week Microsoft released Preview 6 of the .NET Aspire project. Significant changes have been implemented to enhance the security and reliability of the platform. This release, version 8.0.0-preview.6.24214.1, introduces several noteworthy additions, like changes related to templates, components, dashboard, testing and more. [] Top Presentations [Several Components are Rendering: Client Performance at Slack-Scale]( Jenna Zeigen discusses front-end performance issues encountered by Slack as they continue to grow and evolve the desktop app. [Jenna Zeigen]( [Durable Execution for Control Planes: Building Temporal Cloud on Temporal]( Sergey Bykov discusses the concept of Durable Execution, with a real world example of how they used it to build the Control Plane for Temporal Cloud. [Sergey Bykov]( [Protecting APIs in Financial Services with Zero Trust Overlay Mesh Networks]( Clint Dovholuk reviews the three components of OpenZiti's architecture: controller, edge routers, and SDKs, in addition to diving into the internal physical and logical architecture of OpenZiti. [Clint Dovholuk]( [Architecting for High Availability in the Cloud with Cellular Architecture]( Chris Price discusses cellular architecture, its merits, design options with cellularization, and how to effectively isolate at the level of an AWS account. [Chris Price]( [From Smoothie Architecture to Layer Cake with Durable Execution]( Sergey Bykov shows how Durable Execution of Temporal enables a transition and makes building scalable distributed applications qualitatively easier. [Sergey Bykov]( [Cloud Native Data Security with OAuth: A Scalable Zero Trust Architecture]( Get early access to the first chapters of O’Reilly’s upcoming book on realizing the full benefits of OAuth to strengthen security. Upon reading, you’ll learn how to secure API access in cloud-native environments and update your zero-trust security architecture. [Read now](. Sponsored content [Cloud Native Data Security with OAuth: A Scalable Zero Trust Architecture - Sponsored by Curity]( [] Top Podcasts [Object-Oriented UX (OOUX) with Sophia Prater]( Thomas Betts talks with Sophia Prater about Object-Oriented UX (OOUX). OOUX focuses on identifying the objects and relationships within a system, allowing for better communication and collaboration. [podcast]( [Navigating AI, Platform Engineering, and Staff-Plus: InfoQ Dev Summit Boston Preview]( In this InfoQ podcast, host Daniel Bryant sat down with speakers from the InfoQ Dev Summit Boston (June 24-25) and discussed the critical challenges and decisions developers are currently facing. [podcast]( [Architecture Does Not Emerge - a Conversation with Tracy Bannon]( In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke to Tracy Bannon about what software architecture really is, and what an architect needs to be able to do. [podcast]( [InfoQ Architecture and Design Trends in 2024]( The panel discussion in this episode is around the annual InfoQ Architecture and Design Trends Report. Our trends reports provide you with an overview of the topics to pay attention to this year. [podcast]( [Connect with InfoQ on Twitter]( [Connect with InfoQ on Facebook]( [Connect with InfoQ on LinkedIn]( [Connect with InfoQ on Youtube]( You have received this message because you are subscribed to the “Special Reports Newsletter”. To stop receiving this email, please click the following link: [Unsubscribe]( C4Media Inc. (InfoQ.com), 2275 Lake Shore Boulevard West, Suite #325, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M8V 3Y3