Welcome to the 62nd edition of the Software Architecture Newsletter!
In this edition - Multi-cloud challenges, over caching, SEO tools, .NET 10, December sale and more.
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Scaling the BBC Design System - Supporting the BBC website is a huge fit, with over 10 brands and 25 teams, handling 4.8 billion requests monthly. How can you scale a system to support all this?
Read about it in this excellent InfoQ presentation.
Why Over-Caching Can Be Just as Bad as No Caching? - Caching is one of the fundamentals building blocks of almost every system, especially a highly-loaded one.
But it turns out that the more is not always the merrier, and there is, in fact, a "too much caching".
Read about it here.
Monolithic vs Microservices - Yep, the never ending battle is still here. So here's another take on the dilemma each and every architect faces somewhere along their careers - should we go for microservices or stay with monolith?
Read this article for more.
Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Challenges and Solutions - Many organizations are going to multi-cloud environments in order to enjoy the diversity of services and improved reliability. However, multi-cloud also has its own challenges, and it's really important to be aware of them and know how to overcome them.
This article describes these challenges and offers some methods for handling them.
Azure Open AI vs Azure AI Services vs Azure AI Foundry - These days Azure offers quite a few AI-branded services, and it's not always easy to differentiate between them
This helpful article explains what these services are, and when you should use which.
How Waze is Using Memorystore - How do you scale your in-memory database to support millions of concurrent users' real-time data worldwide, while making sure service to one of the most popular navigation apps in the planet is not dsrupted?
Read this fascinating case study to find out.
The Role of Inference Router in AI Systems - Usually, when working with AI model, we decide on a specific model and work against this one. But what if we cloud choose the best model for each request? Well, just for that we have the Inference Router, which functions as a load balancer between models and automatically chooses the model that will fit best to the capabilities required and will help us get cost optimization.
Read about it here.
How AI Agents Will disrupt Software Engineering - AI Agents are the hottest trend in the AI world right now, and it looks like everyone are trying to create one. But what would be their effect on software engineering in the long run? Are they going to change the way we design and build our systems?
This Gartner article tries to answer this question.
Deep Dive into PHP 8.5's Next Generation Features - A new version of a popular development language is always something to explore, and PHP is no different.
PHP v8.5 was just released, and it brings with it a slew of very interesting updates, most of them around developer experience.
Read about these updates here.
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So, that was the Dec 20205 edition of theVar.
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Cheers,
Memi