Modern Architecture 101 for New Engineers & Forgetful Experts
summary
Overview of concrete choices: walks through putting the API next to SQL Server to remove drivers, using a service bus plus an event hub to push DB changes to clients, and trading latency for scale with read replicas and column store tables (benchmarks claim ~100x faster for aggregates). Covers retry, durable queues, level‑1/level‑2 cache (one‑second cache transform), APIM for versioning, and Data API Builder as a replacement for boilerplate data APIs.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Modern architecture intro
- 8:55Architect's role
- 15:54Modern architecture diagram
- 23:11Eventual consistency vs performance
- 32:14Caching for faster APIs
- 45:51CDNs for static content
- 56:25Data lakes & ML integration
- 1:00:40Final takeaways
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