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  • Cat Report – System Design Exercise

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    Designing and implementing a scalable and flexible notification delivery solution for AnimalFarm. Background Our company AnimalFarm operates the largest cat management platform worldwide with millions of users sharing awesome updates about their favorite pets day and night. Recently the management decided to focus more on driving user engagement, targeting an ambitious uplift of daily and…

  • Distributed tracing with Dynatrace

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    Showcasing the distributed tracing and topology discovery features of Dynatrace – using a super cool 1990s style website backed by 2010s microservice architecture. AnimalWeb AnimalWeb is a demo project that tries to imitate how websites looked like in the glorious days of 1990s, but more importantly, it is built on a simple microservice architecture to…

  • Handle that load

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    Planning server capacity in environments where demand changes rapidly can be quite challenging. We probably all remember some unpleasant cases where a service behaved rather strangely under load, examples ranging from not being able to log into an online ticket sales system to buy tickets for newly announced tour dates (while thousands of other people…