Category: System Designs
Improve your storage I/O performance today
an article by Lucas Crämer and Jannik Smidt DISCLAIMER This post tries to keep the complexity manageable while making a point clear. We are not systems engineers/kernel developers, so feel free to point out any mistakes/misunderstandings. This post probably does not present anything new for people who are working in systems engineering and/or kernel development.…
TLA+ and PlusCal Appetizer
Short appetizer for TLA+ and PlusCal.
Allgemein, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, System Architecture, System Designs, System Engineering, Ultra Large Scale SystemsAn overview of Large Scale Deep Learning
article by Annika Strauß (as426) and Maximilian Kaiser (mk374) Introduction Improving Deep Learning with ULS for superior model training Single Instance Single Device (SISD) Multi Instance Single Device (MISD) Multi Instance Multi Device (MIMD) Single Instance Multi Device (SIMD) Model parallelism Data parallelism Improving ULS and its components with the aid of Deep Learning Understanding…
Security Strategies and Best Practices for Microservices Architecture
Microservices architectures seem to be the new trend in the approach to application development. However, one should always keep in mind that microservices architectures are always closely associated with a specific environment: Companies want to develop faster and faster, but resources are also becoming more limited, so they now want to use multiple languages and approaches.…
Cascading failures in large-scale distributed systems
Internet service providers face the challenge of growing rapidly while managing increasing system distribution. Although the reliable operation of services is of great importance to companies such as Google, Amazon and Co., their systems fail time and again, resulting in extensive outages and a poor customer experience. In this context, one often encounters so-called cascading…
“Himbeer Tarte und harte Fakten”: Im Interview mit Ansible, k3s, Infrastructure as Code und Raspberry Pi
Why so serious? – Ein Artikel von Sarah Schwab und Aliena Leonhard im Rahmen der Vorlesung Systems Engineering and Management. Die Idee, ein fiktives Interview zu erstellen, entstammt daraus komplexe Sachverhalte unterhaltsam und verständlich zu machen. Wir sind heute zu Gast in der Tech-Sendung “Himbeer Tarte und harte Fakten”. Heute geht es unter Anderem um…
Applikationsinfrastruktur einer modernen Web-Anwendung
ein Artikel von Nicolas Wyderka, Niklas Schildhauer, Lucas Crämer und Jannik Smidt Projektbeschreibung In diesem Blogeintrag wird die Entwicklung der Applikation- und Infrastruktur des Studienprojekts sharetopia beschrieben. Als Teil der Vorlesung System Engineering and Management wurde besonders darauf geachtet, die Anwendung nach heutigen Best Practices zu entwickeln und dabei kosteneffizient zu agieren
Software Dependencies – Die Gefahr aus der Tiefe
“Unbekannte infiltrieren Paketmanager npm und verseuchen Tools mit Schadcode” heißt es am 08.11.2021 auf heise online. Die Nutzeraccounts der Maintainer von coa und rc wurden gehackt und neue Versionen dieser Pakete hochgeladen (inklusive Malware). Zwar denken sich bestimmt viele bei coa und rc: “Aha toll”, aber spätestens bei React oder Angular sollte man hellhörig werden.…
- Allgemein, DevOps, Interactive Media, Rich Media Systems, Scalable Systems, System Designs, System Engineering
Designing the framework for a scalable CI/CD supported web application
Documentation of our approaches to the project, our experiences and finally the lessons we learned. The development team approaches the project with little knowledge of cloud services and infrastructure. Furthermore, no one has significant experience with containers and/or containerized applications. However, the team is well experienced in web development and has good knowledge of technologies…
Scaling a Basic Chat
Authors: Max Merz — merzmax.de, @MrMaxMerzMartin Bock — martin-bock.com, @martbock