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…a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.\u00a0 —William Strunk Jr.<\/a>, Elements of Style<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems<\/a>, Martin Kleppmann has written about traits and trade-offs of elements of data infrastructure for modern applications.\u00a0 In that book, he has drawn “Figure 1-1. One possible architecture for a data system that combines several components”.\u00a0 This is an exploration that example and possible architecture with Couchbase.<\/p>\n

Example 1: <\/span><\/p>\n

Figure 1 below is the architecture from the book.<\/span><\/span>\"Figure<\/a><\/p>\n

Let’s use a modern database like Couchbase<\/a> which simplifies the infrastructure by providing scalable Cache<\/a>, Database<\/a>, Search<\/a>, and Event processing<\/a> within the same product. One bye one, we can replace each independent component with a scalable feature in Couchbase<\/a> feature (in red<\/span><\/del>).\"Figure<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Let’s remove the unnecessary parts to get the new architecture.\"Example<\/a><\/p>\n

Example 2:\u00a0 \u00a0I’ve added an additional common use case: data analysis and DataViz.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After using the same technique to use Couchbase and remove unnecessary components, we get this:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Again, let’s remove the unnecessary parts to get the new architecture.\u00a0 Here, we’ve exploited the Analytics service<\/a> available within Couchbase.
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This doesn’t mean everything can be simply rearchitected to use one or two products. The tendency of any infrastructure is to increase complexity. More components will increase complexity. This is a guide to continuously add, remove, and refactor the components to meet your business objective and to fight complexity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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