Tags: Architecture

The cost-cutting imperative has triggered a reevaluation of all technologies, including databases. This series critiques hot DB technologies and poses fundamental questions about their trade-offs: Are cloud databases, distributed databases, microservices, and containerization real needs or false hype?

Even Amazon's SOA team admits that microservices and serverless have problems. The Prime Video team switched to a monolith, saving 90% in operational costs.

Concepts and their naming are very important. Naming style reflects an engineer's understanding of system architecture. Poorly defined concepts lead to communication confusion, while carelessly set names create unexpected additional burden. Therefore, they need careful design.

Replication is one of the core issues in system architecture.

UUID properties, principles and applications, and how to manipulate UUIDs using PostgreSQL stored procedures.