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Distributed Monoliths

Posted on December 6, 2024 by way0utwest

I was watching a video called Microservices are Technical Debt. In it, the person being interviewed said that a lot of people really have a distributed monolith. That caught my eye since I’ve worked with a number of customers who … Continue reading →

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Separate Reads

Posted on November 13, 2024 by way0utwest

Recently I was watching a presentation on how to scale performance in your SQL Server environment and one of the suggestions was setting up Availability Groups (AGs) and having read-intent connections that would query the secondary and not the primary. … Continue reading →

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What Metrics Do You Collect?

Posted on June 28, 2024 by way0utwest

One of the hot terms in software these days is observability. There are a few definitions (Splunk, RadixWeb), but essentially this is the insight into how your software runs and performs using metrics, logs, traces, etc. In DevOps, we do … Continue reading →

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Polyglot Persistence

Posted on June 17, 2024 by way0utwest

I’ve seen the term polyglot persistence floating around Redgate a bit recently in the marketing department. I haven’t really seen this term anywhere, and I wonder if you have. If you have, drop a comment. The definition is based on … Continue reading →

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