#system architecture

[blackmoreops]

Netflix's Chaos Monkey: Embracing Failure for Resilience

Chaos Monkey is an innovative tool developed by Netflix as part of their Simian Army suite of testing tools. It deliberately introduces failures into your cloud infrastructure to test system resilience and recovery capabilities. Chaos Monkey works by randomly terminating instances in your production environment. This might sound counterintuitive, but by forcing failures to occur, it helps…

[leonbasinwriter]

Architecting the Marketplace of Minds: Future Insights

By @leonbasinwriter | Architect of Futures | www.basinleon.com Prologue “In the void between circuits and stars, the builders whispered of futures yet to bloom.” The Architect speaks to the unseen builders: “We have laid the stones. We have etched the designs. But now, a question lingers in the digital ether: what is it we are truly building?” I. The Engine Awakens In the first etching—The…

[avendata85]

Explore the critical role of legacy systems in IT and banking sectors, focusing on their functionality and architectural intricacies. Gain insights into how these longstanding systems continue to support essential operations despite technological advancements.

[aedininsight]

The Windows 10 EOL Dilemma: Upgrade or Migrate?

🔹 Windows 10 EOL is coming. Windows 11 is the last x64-supported OS before Microsoft moves to ARM. Why buy new hardware when Linux keeps your current machine alive? 💻🐧 #Windows10EOL #LinuxMigration #TechStrategy #Microsoft #Linux #IT #Engineering

As a Principal Systems Architect, I don’t just follow trends. I analyze their long-term impact. And with Windows 10 hitting End-of-Life (EOL) on October 14, 2025, Microsoft is nudging users toward Windows 11, which will be the last version to support x64 processors before Microsoft fully embraces ARM architecture—just like Apple did with its M1 chips. For businesses and individuals reliant on x64…

[rhosigmaa]

Understanding System Architecture: The Base of Technology Solutions

Introduction

System architecture is part of systems design and development; it cuts across all levels, from embedded systems to wide enterprise solutions. It is simply a blueprint designed to depict how different elements of a system interact with each other and function. If defined correctly, System architecture ensures that the systems developed are efficient, scalable, and maintainable.

System architecture refers to the structured outline used in the conceptualization of software elements, relationships, and properties. It calls for the definition of the components that will characterize the system, how such components interact with each other, and the general structure. Properly designed architecture gives a clear plan for development as well as scalability in the future.

Components

The building blocks of the system may include hardware, software, and data, among other components:

Relationships: Those aspects of interaction that occur between the entities, such as interactions that occur between data and control flow.

Properties: Those properties of the system in terms of how scalable it is, dependable, and efficient.

Importance of System Architecture

System architecture should never be downplayed because system architecture does define how the system performs, is secure, and can be maintained. Some other valuable benefits include the following:

Improved Performance

A defined system architecture can better enable optimized data flow and resource utilization, thus improving system performance.

Scalability

A good architecture is expandable. That is, if the system is to evolve, using a scalable architecture means that new components can be added smoothly without crippling the system.

Maintainability

Easily maintainable and updateable systems are the result of clear architectural guidelines. This translates to lesser future development costs and effort.

Risk Management

Possible problems can be identified earlier in the design of the architecture. Using this information, risks can be mitigated and expensive failures avoided in the later stages of development.

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Key Features of System Architecture

Hardware Architecture

It refers to the physical hardware components in the system, which include servers, workstations, and network devices. Understanding hardware architecture is required for having better performance with fewer compatibility problems.

Software Architecture

This involves software components and their interactions. It refers to the operating system, middleware, and application software. Structured software architecture helps in organizing codes and reuse.

Data Architecture

Data architecture is the framework as to how data will be collected, stored, and processed. It encompasses ideas of database design, data flow diagrams, and a system of control of the body of data. Data integrity and accessibility can only be guaranteed by a good data architecture.

The System Architecture Design Process

A number of steps are involved in designing a robust system architecture. These are as follows:

Requirements Gathering

The very first step in defining the architecture involves understanding the needs and requirements of the users of the system. This includes both functional and non-functional requirements.

Architectural Patterns

To begin with, appropriate architectural patterns need to be chosen. Very popular patterns are layered architecture, microservices, and event-driven architecture. Each pattern has its pros and cons in accordance with the goals pursued in the project.

Component Design

It is necessary to define individual components and how they will interact. That includes specifications of interfaces, protocols, and data exchanges.

Documentation

Documentation of the architecture is fundamental and will be useful later in the maintenance and production chain. Clear documentation helps developers understand the system structure and functions of the system.

System Architecture Challenges

Complexity Management

It becomes problematic as such systems grow complex to manage. Robust architecture is challenging to balance with simplicity.

Integration Issues

It may be hard to ensure they all work together, especially when integrating legacy systems with new technologies.

Evolving Requirements

Requirements tend to evolve during the design process. Adaptation of architecture to satisfy changing requirements can involve a great deal of rework.

Future of System Architecture

Advances in technology are fast changing the future of system architecture. Concepts like cloud computing, IoT, and artificial intelligence are shaping the general approach toward system design. As these technologies advance, architects must be able to shape their strategies around using new capabilities while facing the demands of modern applications.

Conclusion

System architecture, in summary, plays a very important role in system design based on performance, scalability, and maintainability. With this full understanding of all components and practice of best practices, efficient and adaptable systems to the best needs of organizations can be developed.

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[mihirjaiswal]

A System Architect’s Perspective on Quantum Computing: An Interview with Dr. Gokul Subramanian Ravi

Dr. Gokul Subramanian Ravi has been a career computer scientist. He is an assistant professor and active researcher in quantum computing at the University of Michigan. In this interview, we talked about the philosophy and technology of quantum computers. Dr. Ravi talked about quantum computers, its need, current state, architecture, and quantum advantage at length. While this interview is more technical than previous ones in quantum chats, it is very enjoyable and informative.

Mihir: Why do we need quantum computers? Classical computers are getting better every day. Can’t we just use classical computers for everything?

Dr. Ravi: That’s a good question. The classical computers’ capability is not increasing as fast as it used to be. We all have heard about Moore’s law failing. Thus, there is a fundamental need for new technology. We want more computing capabilities in any form, not specifically quantum computing. Today, computing and computers are the most fundamental driver of innovation. We want to keep pushing for new innovations. That reason motivates us towards emerging technologies, quantum computing being one of them. Some problems are exponentially hard to solve. That means the computational resources required to solve such problems increase exponentially with the increase in problem size. Classical computers quickly reach their limitations in addressing this kind of problem. For example, to discover new medicines, you want to understand chemistry between two chemical molecules. You can’t mix thousands to chemicals together in the lab and study them, so computer simulations are done. Computational models for solving such problems represent each molecule as some numerical interaction and perform calculations to predict the molecular interactions. As the size of molecule increases, the numerical equations become exponentially complicated and soon reach the limits of classical computers. The reason for that is at the molecular level, when we are considering electrons; we cannot ignore some of the non-trivial forces, which we generally ignore in day to day calculations like gravity. With number of electrons, these forces become very large in numbers, hence the exponential growth of the problem. These are called quantum mechanical properties.

When Richard Feynman proposed quantum computing, the idea was that we needed a device that was able to simulate quantum mechanical properties and such a device would be quantum computing machine. Thus, quantum computer is specifically of interest for solving large-scale scientific problems in physics, chemistry etc. Other problems, like factoring, also have important application of quantum computing. If you are able to factor a number quickly, that has implication in security and cryptography. Factoring is a classical problem, not quantum, but there is a method that can solve factoring faster than a classical computer can. Quantum computer has a long way to do. However, in theory, there are quantum, classical as well as scientific problems that can be solved more efficiently using quantum computer than any classical computer.

Mihir: As you said, classical computers are reaching its capacity and no longer growing as fast as they were. As a result, we need new technologies to fill that gap and continue expanding our computational power. Is quantum computing one such new technology or are we calling a group of technologies quantum computing? Are we able to define quantum computer today?

Dr. Ravi: Again a very good question. In general, we would define quantum computer as a technology that is able to exploit quantum mechanical properties towards computing. Within that definition, all different technologies like supercomputing qubit, trapped ion qubit, neutral atoms, and photonic qubits are quantum technology. In their own way they all are exploiting quantum mechanics. If we are being very specific than you are absolutely right that quantum computing is an umbrella term. However, broadly they all fall within the same scope of exploitation of quantum mechanics.

Mihir: In my understanding, a problem has to be converted to a mathematical formula to make an algorithm that can be computed by a classical computer. Is that true for quantum computing also?

Dr. Ravi: I would say yes and no. I would approach this question in two different ways. Think of a problem which can be solved 90% on a classical computer and only last 10% needs a quantum computer because that last part is really exponentially hard. In classical computer, we would use an approximation and perhaps accept a 90% solution. We still need mathematical formula to reach that 90% solution and then improve beyond 90% using a quantum computer. We want to continue to use classical computer to go as far as we can, because quantum computer is always going to be an expensive resource. Now the other question: is the quantum computing also based on a mathematical formula? I would argue, yes to some extent. Let’s take an example of a classical computer. In designing a complex machine learning algorithm, the algorithm would have complex metrics, its addition, multiplication and many complex mathematical operations. When coded onto a classical computer, a compiler would take that and through multiple steps ultimately pass down to transistors. Transistors would always work in a series of 0 and 1, no mathematical formula there. Thus, classical computer is formulas up to transistors and then it is just transistors’ natural property of 0 and 1. Quantum computer is not much different. Let’s take example of chemistry. Let’s assume that we are trying to find energy of some chemical molecule, a common problem in chemistry. There are techniques like Jordan Wigner method, which converts fermionic (chemistry) form to the qubit form. There would be cleaning and optimization steps to remove non-important components from the molecular formula and properties. Finally, the qubit form is run on a quantum computer. If we assume there are twenty steps in calculating molecular energy, than nineteen of them are mathematical like cleaning, optimization, Jordan Wigner transformation and so on. Only the twentieth step is quantum computing, similar to going to the transistors in classical computing. Mathematics and software gets less focus in quantum computing, because everybody is focused on qubits. Whereas in classical computing, we don’t think about transistors anymore.

Mihir: Let’s pivot now to system architecture. What is the simplest way to define system architecture irrespective of technology?

Dr. Ravi: Entire system is made up of multiple layers known as abstraction layers. One layer is an application like zoom or software doing chemistry calculations. Second layer is algorithm that application runs on. Then you have instruction layer like instruction set architecture which runs your device. To convert algorithm to instructions, you need a compiler. You may also have an operating system that is doing resource management. Another layer is micro architecture of the computer, which is how the computer is designed. This micro architecture has components like circuits and circuits are made up of transistors for classical bits or qubits. System architecture is interactions between these different layers. Hardware architects focus on interactions between circuits, transistors and qubits like hardware components. Architects working at micro-architecture levels organize components within a processor. Other types of system architects deal with interaction between compiler and hardware, or compiler and algorithm, or stacking servers to build complex super-computing architecture. System architect is a broadly defined term for a group of experts working anywhere among different layers of hardware and software and they understand the pathway from application to technology. It is a complex pathway and system architects usually work on only a subset of different layers.

Mihir: How has the role of system architect evolved over the year?

Dr. Ravi: Yes, the role has definitely changed over the years. That change has come based on the needs. During the seventies, there were so many opportunities and needs in a single layer of the stack that a person can focus on being expert of just one layer like on micro-architecture or compiler. Early 2000s, computers started to reach limits of computational power within a single core and multi-core systems became a norm. That prompted change in the role of some system architects. They asked questions about parallelization of processes, dependencies between applications and different cores and other questions that system architects did not think about before. Because the capacity of processors was not increasing rapidly, the focus shifted to building accelerators. Again that had an impact on role of system architects. The architects needed to look at multiple layers from application to processors, but they were focusing on just one application. Earlier system architect’s role was broad within a layer or two. Modern system architect’s role has become deeper than broader.

Mihir: While systems architecture was evolving for classical computing we had opportunities to try and fail. Now that we have all these knowledge about computing, we have to use our knowledge in quantum computing. We do not have enough opportunity to try new things and fail, isn’t it?

Dr. Ravi: Again, a very good question. On one hand it has been a huge positive that we have learned to build a full stack in classical computing and we can apply that knowledge to quantum computing. For example, IBM has been at the forefront of building system architecture for classical computing; it is applying that knowledge to the quantum computing and doing very well. On the other hand some of the strategies and habits that work in classical computing may not work in quantum computing. In emerging technology you can’t start with being broadly expert in one layer like how classical computing started. We have to be flexible. As other layers are evolving, system architect in quantum computing needs more depth and flexibility in their knowledge and approach.

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by @mr.roofpot

[iamhereinthebg]

Let's talk about the clock keepers boundary!

(warning: spoilers until chapter 124!!)

I've had some guess on where they could be from so let's look at what we have in the manga for now. I will keep things on surface level for the most part but it's just some things I noticed!

The first mention of the town is in chapter 111, where we finally have a view on their boundary.

A lot of fans already guessed from their clothes that they were not from Japan, this panel definitely confirms it and even points more precizely to a European country, mostly Western Europe. And also a country where Winter with snow exist.

It's also not an English speaking country, since Akane cannot understand the language and we know he has english classes at school.

Now there are several things we can look at to have more clues!

First, the architecture.

This type of house is called Timbered framed houses. It’s important to note that the roofs on those houses are really really sharp here. Which means theywere built for snow, so it can slide off the roofs more easily. The trees are also pines, something that can be found in a lot of Europe. (wood was needed to be able to create houses made of wood/with visible Framework( Little note: I know Italy was a guess for a lot of person because of the link to Pinocchio, but Italy main material for houses is stone not wood. And it is also not known for its winter.)

Here we can also see bricks which is something more associated to countries like Germany, Belgium or the Nertherlands, we don't have the colors so we can't guess from which minerals it was made for now.

But we have even more informations when we look at chapter 124!

The bridge and tower may be inspired by a fortified city, something that you could find A LOT in Western Europe during the middle age, not a lot of cities still have their entire walls but you can still see it if you go into old medieval towns. We can also see something that looks like a Belfry on several panels. Towers used mostly to indicate each passing hour of the day (may be a campanile or a bell tower (the difference is wether it's linked to religion or not basically)

Second! Let's do a little bit of clock making history!

I won't go into details, but there are some countries to point for this. England, The Netherlands and Germany. We already took out England before and we can easily erase Nertherlands from the list with the next step (my favorite one).

The food! I already had my suspicions confirmed with this bonus art from volume 22.

First of all, they have tea which is not something that was in Europe before the XVII century. But let's look at the sweets they have here.

Chocolates which look close to Belgian chocolate ( I say Belgian but other countries' chocolate is pretty close to it) , Christstollen Cake, and Spiztbuden.

We have even more to look at with the new chapter! And they confirm that it's indeed a stollen cake.

With all these foods it's now pretty obvious which area the clock keepers are inspired from.

Stollen cakes are German cakes, ginger cookies are from Germany too. I will also add that there is a chance the crescent moon cookies are VanilleKipferl. We have another panel showing Sausages and bread. Only the Almond is something not typical from Germany but which clearly was all over Western Europe with trades.

Their city already looked like the 'perfect christmas city' you can see in movies, inspired by German culture. And they also mention Mulled Wine which is THE beverage to take in any chritmas market in Europe.

Chritmas markets are inspired and coming from Germany first, but I wanna point something more.

My main guess was, Nuremberg, the city where the ancestor of the pocket watch was created, the Nuremberg Egg. It's also a Fortified city and it has forests around it. It's also known for its Ginger cookies!

So Germany would be a great pic, but the more I think about it the more I can also see the link to another region: Alsace.

Alsace is a region from France right now BUT it's a mixt of german and french culture (I will not make a history lesson but it is a place that always switched between France and Germany basically, now it's French).

All the food mentionned before are also made in the Alsace region!

It's situated in the Vosges, a chain of mountains known to have a lot of forets of pines and which is known to have villages like this:

Which were also the main inspirations for movies like Howl's moving castle for example. You can see the similarities between the artchitectures

The first ever Chritmas Market was in Strasbourg, the capital of Alsace, when it was German and it spread accross Europe after.

I will now look at something I usually don't do because I exclude Aus from canon but it's just a funny thing to point out.

This au shows a snow town inspired by ginger bread houses. I just find it funny because Aoi is shown as a baker, with bread (which are not baguette I think, it's way larger here) but with some croissant on her table (disclaimer: Croissant are not french at first, this form here is, but it's from Austria otherwise) And Kako clearly has something similar to a Wine bottle in his hands. This au is the only one featuring them, was given with their volumes and the vibes are really similar to their boundary.

I would say no matter what it's definitely closer to German culture but I wanted to point out this region which is known for it's Christmas season and its typical houses.

I will mostly say that it's an inspiration from this region of Europe, I don't know if a real country is the reference for it since we don't even know where tbhk takes place, but it's always funny to look at those things :DD

Little bonus:

In a more messy note, the clothes. I put them at the end because besides their hats, I had no idea how to describe it, since it seems pretty typical of what people could wear in winter.

I did the research in the other way, to look for German and Alsacian clothing to see if it match and it kinda does but I don't think it's speficific to this region. The girls wear classic white Charlotte and big clothes with layers for Winter.

The clock keepers clothes are different, it looks like a mixt of Japanese and western European clothing (especially from england).

Their main outfits for Akane and Kako really just look like a typical waistcoast/costume you can find in the XIXth century in Europe and Mirai's seems more inspired by a mixt of a Kimono with several layers(she also has sandals and frills) and a coat? The little knots Kako and Akane have on their coats look like something inspired from Mizuhiki knots too (I actually saw a costume with those exact same knots in a museum but I didn't take a picture rip)

So I would say they probably changed slowly their attire when they arrived in Japan, we don't know since how many times they are here, but we know that what is happening in the deeper place of the boundary is linked to memories previous to their arrival. According to their origin I think we can say that it's pretty sure they arrived after the Meiji/during the Meiji Era in Japan (1868/1912), since it's a this time Japan mostly imported Western culture (for clothing here, the first contact was before this. And note: it was mostly rich people who dressed like this). And If we look at some others dates like the things they are eating, used to have or even their clothes, I would say it's more probably the Meiji Era and not in the XVs.

Another note is that their clocks have the numbers written in japanese on it (in the og version but it maye just be so it's readable for the japanese readers? idk if it's a choice or not).

I haven't searched much on their clothes but it was still something I wanted to note here ^^

[fairsweetlonging]

just saw a comment on tiktok saying that the bamboo house is called that because it's set in the bamboo forest, and not because it's made of bamboo, and i uh. i feel betrayed. and very dumb

[vieformidable]

The picture of earth from space that we will rarely be shown

[pomefioredove]

I’m studying international law in college and finished in the summer a class about genocide. My autism will NOT allow me to shut up about the horrors of mankind so I know if I were in Yuu’s place I would be constantly disturbing those around me.

Riddle and Azul would find the issues with the legal system fascinating though. Everybody would be confused on why I would want to go back.

I can't tell you how many times I think about the actual political/historical world of twisted wonderland. I want to understand everything about it. I would live in trein's classroom. bc if lilia's dream in book 7 is any indication, this world is just as fucked as ours, we/yuu just hasn't learned the full extent of that yet. I wanna knowww

[hippiebohostyle]

[science70]

"The University Library of the Future" envisioned in an Armstrong C-60 Luminaire Ceiling System ad, 1966.

[robertocastigliaphotography]

Milky Way. Rocca Calascio. Abruzzo, Italy.

[otherside-wanderer]

The vaults of St. Isidore's Cathedral

[2001hz]

Selfridges (2003) Designed By: Future Systems Location: Birmingham, England United Kingdom

Heavily inspired by Paco Rabanne’s 1964-1966 sequin dress.