Category: System Architecture
How to build fault-tolerant software systems
A brief introduction to the fundamental concepts of Erlang and Elixir Ever since the first electronic systems have been created, engineers and developers have strived to provide solutions to guarantee their robustness and fault-tolerance. Thereof arose the understanding that developing and building a fault-tolerant system is not an easy task, because it requires a deep…
Creating an Email Server Environment with Docker and Kubernetes
As a part of the lecture “Software Development for Cloud Computing” our task was to bring an application into a cloud environment. When we presented our software project MUM at the Media Night in our 4th semester, we talked with a few people about dockerizing MUM together with a whole email server configuration. While brainstorming…
Production Monitoring – Industry 4.0
When I was invited to a design thinking workshop of the summer school of Lucerne – University of Applied Sciences and Arts, I made my first experience with the end user interaction part of Industry 4.0. It was an awesome week with a lot of great people and made me interested in the whole Industry…
How to create a K8s cluster with custom nodes in Rancher
Don’t you find it annoying not to be able to manage all your Kubernetes clusters at a glance? Ranger 2.0 offers an ideal solution. The following article is less a scientific post than a how-to guide to creating a new Kubernetes cluster with custom nodes in Ranger 2.0. But before we drift into the practical…
How internet giants deliver their data to the world
In the course of attending the lecture “Ultra Large Scale Systems” I was intrigued by the subject of traffic load balancing in ultra-large-scale systems. Out of this large topic I decided to look at traffic distribution at the frontend in detail and held a presentation about it as part of this lecture. As this subject…
Consensus protocols – A key to cluster management?
blogpost In these times, applications require increasing robustness and scalability, since otherwise they will collapse under the burden of the vast number of users. Cluster managers like kubernetes, Nomad or Apache Marathon are a central factor of this resilience and scalability. A closer look at the insides of cluster managers reveals consensus protocols to be…
Apache Kafka – The one Stream Processor to rule them all?
If there is one statement that can be made about the current developments in the realm of distributed systems, it would probably be how most developers are turning away from a centralised, monolithic architecture and move towards a microservice architecture. This type of architecture proved itself as much more flexible and robust for the modern…
Reproducibility in Machine Learning
The rise of Machine Learning has led to changes across all areas of computer science. From a very abstract point of view, heuristics are replaced by black-box machine-learning algorithms providing “better results”. But how do we actually quantify better results? ML-based solutions tend to focus more on absolute performance improvements (measured by metrics) instead of…
Experiences from breaking down a monolith (3)
Written by Verena Barth, Marcel Heisler, Florian Rupp, & Tim Tenckhoff DevOps Code Sharing Building multiple services hold in separated code repositories, we headed the problem of code duplication. Multiple times a piece of code is used twice, for example data models. As the services grow larger, just copying is no option. This makes it…
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Building a fully scalable architecture with AWS
What I learned in building the StateOfVeganism ? By now, we all know that news and media shape our viewson these discussed topics. Of course, this is different from person to person. Some might be influenced a little more than others, but there always is some opinion communicated. Considering this, it would be really interesting…