README.md

architecture-simplification

Code samples to accompany the Architecture Simplification project

Resources

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Table of Contents

001_fragile_data_integrations

• business_transactions
• cdc
• edge_computing
• etl
• polling_clients
• purging_data
• queue_coherence

002_hyper_specialized_dbs

• data_fragmentation
• dual_write

003_failover_region

• database_migration
• database_upgrades
• horizontal_scaling
• predictable_failover_latency

004_unecessary_caching_tier

• cache_coherence
• read_performance

005_unnecessary_dw_workloads

• analytics_in_cockroachdb
• triplicating_data

006_app_silos

• multi_instance_architecture

Dependencies

The following dependencies will allow you to run all of the examples

Major dependencies

• CockroachDB - the runnable binary to launch different kinds of clusters
• Postgres - For its psql CLI
• cqlsh - The Cassandra CQL shell
• gcloud - The Google Cloud CLI
• bq - The BigQuery CLI tool
• Go - The Go programming lanaguage
• Python - The Python programming language
• k6 - To run load tests
• Docker - The Docker runtime (I'm using Rancher Desktop)
• Kubernetes - Local Kubernetes clusters (I'm using k3d)
• Terraform - The IaC tool for creating cloud infrastructure
• kubectl - A CLI for interating with Kubernetes
• kafkactl - A CLI for interacting with Kafka

Minor dependenties

• make - the GNU Make tool
• dg - a simple data generator
• dp - a simple dynamic proxy
• dw - a simple app that waits for a database to become available
• see - a simple cross-platform version of the watch command