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A collection of awesome things related to architecture

Awesome Architecture

A collection of awesome things related to Architecture

API

• AWS - Best practices for working with the Apache Velocity Template Language in Amazon API Gateway
• AWS - Architecture patterns for consuming private APIs cross-account
• Netflix - How Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation (Part 1, Part 2)

Authentication and authorization

• Auth0 - On The Nature of OAuth2’s Scopes
• Styra - Entitlements: Architecting Authorization
• Frontegg - How to Persist JWT Tokens for Your SaaS Application
• Netflix - Edge Authentication and Token-Agnostic Identity Propagation
• AWS - Introducing Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) user-defined roles for access control
• AWS - Enhancing Amazon DynamoDB single-table design with AWS AppSync access and security features
• IETF - JSON Web Token (JWT) Profile for OAuth 2.0 Access Tokens

CI/CD

• AWS - Automate rollbacks for Amazon ECS rolling deployments with CloudWatch alarms
• Jim Bird - Rolling Forward and other Deployment Myths
• Basecamp - Seamless branch deploys with Kubernetes
• AWS - Continuous Delivery of Amazon EKS Clusters Using AWS CDK and CDK Pipelines
• Amazon - Hands-off: Automating continuous delivery pipelines at Amazon (video, article, podcast)
• AWS - CDK Pipelines: Continuous delivery for AWS CDK applications
• AWS - Building a cross-account continuous delivery pipeline for database migrations
• AWS - Serverless CI/CD for the Enterprise on AWS
• AWS - Best practices for CI/CD using AWS Fargate and Amazon ECS (video, slides)
• Amazon - Amazon CI/CD Practices for Software Development Teams (video, slides)
• AWS - Best Practices for CI/CD with AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway
• Amazon - Ensuring rollback safety during deployments
• AWS - Building and testing polyglot applications using AWS CodeBuild
• AWS - Deploying GitOps with Weave Flux and Amazon EKS
• AWS - Include CloudFormation templates in the CDK
• AWS - Validating AWS CodeCommit Pull Requests with AWS CodeBuild and AWS Lambda
• AWS - Running end-to-end Cypress tests for your fullstack CI/CD deployment with Amplify Console
• AWS - Test Reports with AWS CodeBuild
• AWS - New – Building a Continuous Integration Workflow with Step Functions and AWS CodeBuild
• AWS - Using AWS Step Functions State Machines to Handle Workflow-Driven AWS CodePipeline Actions

Concepts

• Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
• Architecturally significant requirements criteria: business value/risk, stakeholder concern, quality level, external dependencies, cross-cutting, first-of-a-kind, source of problems on past projects.
• Architecture decision records (ADRs): Records that support team alignment, document strategic directions for a project or product, and reduce recurring and time-consuming decision-making efforts
• AWS Well-Architected Framework pillars: 1/ Operational excellence 2/ Security 3/ Reliability 4/ Performance efficiency 5/ Cost optimization
• Coupling: Coupling describes the independent variability of connected systems, i.e., whether a change in System A has an effect on System B. If it does, A and B are coupled.
• Coupling facets: 1/ Technology (Java vs. C++, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL) 2/ Location (IP addresses, DNS) 3/ Data Format (Binary, XML, JSON, protobuf, Avro) 4/ Data Type (int16, int32, string, UTF-8, null, empty) 5/ Semantic (Name, Middlename, ZIP) 6/ Temporal (sync, async) 7/ Interaction Style (messaging, RPC, query, GraphQL) 8/ Conversation (pagination, caching, retries)
• Declarative provisioning not equal to Declarative language
• Event-Driven Architecture patterns: 1/ Event Notification 2/ Event-carried State Transfer 3/ Event Sourcing 4/ Command and Query Responsibility Segregation.
• Software Boundaries or "Fracture Planes": 1/ Business Domain Bounded Context 2/ Regulatory Compliance 3/ Change Cadence 4/ Team Location 5/ Risk 6/ Performance Isolation 7/ Technology 8/ User Personas
• Software delivery performance four key metrics: 1/ Cycle Time (Change Lead Time) 2/ Deployment Frequency 3/ Change Failure Rate (CFR) 4/ Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR)

Data isolation

• AWS - Secure data movement across Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift using role chaining and ASSUMEROLE

Frontend

• Capital One - How Capital One Builds Micro-Frontends At Scale

Hybrid architecture

• AWS - Build a Hybrid Architecture for Local Compliance and Global Scalability

Infrastructure automation

• AWS - Deploy AWS Organizations resources by using CloudFormation
• AWS - Running bash commands in AWS CloudFormation templates
• AWS - Building production-ready prototypes (video, slides)
• AWS - Managing resources using AWS CloudFormation Resource Types

Integration patterns

• AWS - Architecture patterns for consuming private APIs cross-account
• Gregor Hohpe - Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit

Internet of Things (IoT)

• BISSELL - How BISSELL migrated a million vacuum devices to a scalable IoT Platform on AWS

Learning from failures

• 37signals - Accounting for the Basecamp 3 outage on June 27, 2022

Migrations

• Spotify - Changing the Wheels on a Moving Bus — Spotify’s Event Delivery Migration
• Amazon - Amazon CISO Jeff Carter - Securing Amazon.com and Migrating Databases to the Cloud

Methodology

• Gregor Hohpe - Would you like architects with your architecture?
• CIO - 7 tell-tale signs of fake DevOps
• Yan Cui - This is why you should keep stateful and stateless resources together
• Neward & Associates - You Want Modules, Not Microservices
• Chris Richardson - Minimizing Design Time Coupling in a Microservice Architecture
• James Hamilton - On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services
• Amazon - Operational Readiness Reviews (ORR)
• SoundCloud - How we ended up with microservices
• Carlos Arguelles - Amazon’s Not So Secret Weapon - The magic of Working Backwards: a real-world case study
• martinfowler.com - Building Infrastructure Platforms
• martinfowler.com - Compliance in a DevOps Culture
• Pedro Del Gallego - The Away Team Model at Amazon
• martinfowler.com - The Practical Test Pyramid
• AWS - Overview of Deployment Options on AWS
• AWS - Practicing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery on AWS
• The Twelve-Factor App.
• AWS - Applying the Twelve-Factor App Methodology to Serverless Applications
• Trunk-Based Development. Amazon encourages this development model - see “before we begin” section in Implementing GitFlow Using AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS CodeDeploy
• Branch by Abstraction for major changes that take time
• LaunchDarkly - Feature Flags for deciding when to release new capabilities
• ThoughtWorks - Technology Radar
• AWS - Establishing your best practice AWS environment
• AWS - Two-pizza teams: Organizing for innovation (video, slides)
• Continuous Configuration at the Speed of Sound
• Towards Operational Excellence blog post series:
  • Part 1 — Customers, Culture, and why you should care
  • Part 2 —On the importance of tools
  • Part 3 — Mechanisms
• Amazon - Amazon’s approach to failing successfully (video, slides)
• AWS - Leadership Session: Developer Tools on AWS (video, slides)
• Amazon - Amazon's approach to high-availability deployment (video, slides)
• AWS - Failing successfully: The AWS approach to resilient design
• Amazon - Releasing Mission-Critical Software at Amazon (video, slides)
• Amazon - DevOps at Amazon: A Look at Our Tools and Processes
• Amazon - Fireside Chat: DevOps at Amazon with Ken Exner, GM of AWS Developer Tools - AWS Online Tech Talks

Multi-region architecture and disaster recovery

• AWS - Implement Multi-Region Serverless (and Functionless) WebSocket Pub/Sub APIs with AWS AppSync and Amazon EventBridge

Networking

• AWS - Designing hyperscale Amazon VPC networks
• AWS - Addressing latency and data transfer costs on EKS using Istio
• AWS - VPC sharing: key considerations and best practices
• FactSet - How FactSet handles networking for 1000+ AWS accounts
• Slack - Building the Next Evolution of Cloud Networks at Slack – A Retrospective

Observability

• Amazon - Building dashboards for operational visibility
• AWS - AWS X-Ray (see also Integrating AWS X-Ray with Other AWS Services)
• AWS - AWS X-Ray Now Supports Amazon API Gateway and New Sampling Rules API
• AWS - Visualize and Monitor Highly Distributed Applications with Amazon CloudWatch ServiceLens
• AWS - Debugging with Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics and AWS X-Ray
• AWS - Amazon CloudWatch Now Includes Contributor Insights - in Preview
• AWS - Container monitoring for Amazon ECS, EKS, and Kubernetes is now available in Amazon CloudWatch
• AWS - Using Prometheus Metrics in Amazon CloudWatch
• AWS - One observability workshop

Operations

• TheFork - Kubernetes cluster upgrade: the blue-green deployment strategy
• AWS - Resolve IT Incidents Faster with Incident Manager, a New Capability of AWS Systems Manager

Platforms

• DAZN - Integrating Backstage at DAZN

Reliability

• Zendesk - ZEN and the art of Reliability

Sharding and partitioning data

• Slack - Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess
• AWS - Improve performance and manageability of large PostgreSQL tables by migrating to partitioned tables on Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS
• GitHub - Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale
• GitLab - Decomposing the GitLab backend database: Part 1: Designing and planning, Part 2: Final migration and results, Part 3: Challenges and surprises
• Notion - Herding elephants: Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion
• Shopify - E-Commerce at Scale: Inside Shopify's Tech Stack - Stackshare.io

Shipping

• 37signals - HEY Bubble Up: From kickoff to launch
• 37signals - Seven Shipping Principles