Engineering Decisions
Documentation¶
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Design Docs at Google | Anatomy of a good design doc |
Architecture decision record (ADR) | An architectural decision record (ADR) is a document that captures an important architectural decision made along with its context and consequences |
What is the best way to write a PRD? |
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Scaling Engineering Teams via RFCs: Writing Things Down | The power of writing things down, and spreading knowledge across the organization |
Technical Writing Courses for Engineers from Google | |
S.P.A.D.E. Toolkit: How to implement Square's famous decision-making framework | A decision-making framework, alternative to consensus built on accountability and clarity, where the person responsible for executing the decision is the one who decides |
Cloud¶
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AWS App-Layer Encryption in AWS | |
AWS Network access for private clusters | Very interesting article going into the problem of providing network connectivity between Kubernetes clusters and other internal tools (like deployment pipelines) |
AWSSquare Adopting AWS VPC Endpoints at Square | Secure communication between data centers and the cloud |
AWSSquare Providing mTLS Identities to Lambdas | Writeup on how Square added support for mutual TLS calls from AWS Lambda into their data center |
AWS Cloud Encryption is worthless! Click here to see why... | When evaluating your cloud security posture priorities, encryption should be at the bottom of your list. First, get your IAM house in order |
AWS Building the Next Evolution of Cloud Networks at Slack | How Slack has gone through an evolution of their AWS infrastructure from running a few hand-built EC2, all the way to provisioning thousands of them across multiple AWS regions |
Infrastructure¶
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Automating Our Infrastructure to Empower Engineers |
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Why We Leverage Multi-tenancy in Uber's Microservice Architecture |
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Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not part of our stack | Container technologies also create a large set of challenges that must be overcome to prevent failures |
How we use HashiCorp Nomad | Reliability model of services running in our more than 200 edge cities worldwide |
Uber Introducing Domain-Oriented Microservice Architecture | |
Design Considerations at the Edge of the ServiceMesh | Set of design patterns around inbound and outbound traffic to and from a service mesh |