Weekend Reading #5

Weekend Reading is a Digest where we share a selection of the most interesting tech articles from different companies found during the week.

The Frugal Architect

The "The Frugal Architect" concept proposed by Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, focuses on sustainable, cost-effective, and resource-efficient architectural design.

A Guide to Evaluating the Infrastructure Costs of Apache Pulsar and Apache Kafka

The article examines the cost components of operating data streaming platforms, with a focus on computing, storage, and networking expenses. It provides a detailed comparison of Apache Pulsar and Apache Kafka, emphasizing Pulsar's cost-efficiency advantages due to its cloud-native architecture and tiered storage capabilities.

Monolithic vs. Microservices Architecture: Everything You Need to Know in 2024

The article compares the traditional monolithic architecture with the modern microservices approach, highlighting their benefits, drawbacks, and ideal use cases. It explains that while monolithic architecture is simpler and easier to manage initially, microservices offer better scalability, fault isolation, and technology flexibility, making them suitable for complex, evolving applications.

Measuring Git Performance with OpenTelemetry

Describe how GitHub engineers leverage OpenTelemetry to monitor and optimize Git performance. It covers integrating OpenTelemetry with Git operations, capturing performance data, and using that data to identify and resolve inefficiencies, ultimately improving the user experience.