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I wrote a new book that has been in the works for years. It is called Root Cause, and it is for those who enjoy the art of backend engineering.Early in my career, 20 years ago, I built backend and database applications without fully grasping their inner mechanics. Performance iss ...  Show more

In this video I introduce 5 different design patterns for building backend applications. Each mode explains how a socket listener is established, a connections are established and how threads and connections are managed to read, write and process requests. 

As InfoQ previously reported in March 2016, Dropbox announced that they had migrated away from Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this week's podcast Robert Bluman talks to Preslav Le. Preslav has been a software engineer at Dropbox for the past three years, contributing to various as ...  Show more

Many people have heard the names "redis" or "memcached" but fewer people know what these tools are good for or why we need them so badly. In this show, Patrick and I explain why caching is so important and how these systems work under the hood. 

Ever wondered about the origin of certain storage or IT administrative tasks? Because of legacy architectures, IT practitioners have been forced to worry about and repeatedly carry out certain administrative tasks because, well, "that's how it's always been with this product." Jo ...  Show more

C’est dans un communiqué diffusé mi-avril que Western Digital, le spécialiste des cartes SD et des disques durs, a évoqué l'arrivée prochaine de cartes SD de 4 To. Jusqu’à présent, seules des cartes de 1 To étaient disponibles dans la gamme SanDisk Extreme Pro. Mais en quadrup ...