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Stripe replaced its observability platform, which used a third-party vendor solution, with a new architecture utilizing managed services on AWS. The company made the move due to scalability limits, reliability issues, and increasing costs while transitioning to microservices. The migration involved dual-writing metrics, translating assets, validation, and user training. After adopting microservices, Stripe’s architecture generated […]
By: Rajiv Shringi, Oleksii Tkachuk, Kartik Sathyanarayanan In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction, a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction. This counting service, built on top of the TimeSeries Abstraction, enables […]
Blockchain networks face a major hurdle: they’re slow and expensive when lots of people use them. Here’s a quick rundown on how experts are trying to fix this: Layer 1 Solutions: Tweaking the base blockchain Bigger blocks New consensus methods Sharding (splitting the network) Layer 2 Solutions: Building on top of existing blockchains State channels […]