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Agoda’s Unconventional Client-First Transition from a GraphQL Monolith to Microservices
Agoda recently described their innovative approach to transitioning from a monolithic GraphQL API to a microservices architecture. Unlike traditional methods focusing on breaking down server-side components first, Agoda adopted a client-first strategy, preparing their client applications to handle both the monolith and the microservices in parallel using an in-house smart orchestrator library.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Fabric API for GraphQL
Microsoft has launched Fabric API for GraphQL, moving the data access layer from public preview to general availability (GA). This release introduces several enhancements, including support for Azure SQL and Fabric SQL databases, saved credential authentication, detailed monitoring tools, and integration with CI/CD workflows.
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Spring Ecosystem Delivers Numerous Milestone Releases
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of July 15th, 2024, highlighting milestone releases of: Spring Boot 3.4.0-M1; Spring Framework 6.2.0-M6; Spring Security 6.4.0-M1; Spring Session 3.4.0-M1; Spring Integration 6.4.0-M1; and Spring Modulith 1.3.0-M1; Spring AMQP 3.2.0-M1; and Spring for Apache Kafka 3.3.0-M1.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Data API Builder for Azure Cosmos DB
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of the Data API builder for Azure Cosmos DB. The open-source project provides REST and GraphQL endpoints to Azure databases and on-premises stores.
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Netflix Uses Elasticsearch Percolate Queries to Implement Reverse Searches Efficiently
Netflix engineers recently published how they use Elasticsearch Percolate Queries to "reverse search" entities in a connected graph. Reverse search means that instead of searching for documents that match a query, they search for queries that match a document, powering dynamic subscription scenarios where there is no direct association between the subscriber and the subscribed entities.
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Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11-M2, JEPs Targeted for JDK 23, Spring Boot, Hibernate, GlassFish
This week's Java roundup for April 15th, 2024, features news highlighting: the second milestone release of Jakarta EE 11; Stream Gathers (Second Preview) and Vector API (Eighth Incubator) targeted for JDK 23; the first release candidate of Spring Boot 3.3.0; the first alpha release of Hibernate 7.0.0; and the fifth milestone release of GlassFish 8.0.0.
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Decathlon Adopts Backend for Frontend (BFF) Pattern to Empower FE Teams
Decathlon established the Backend For Frontend (BFF) architectural pattern as a company-wide recommendation and provided guidelines for its adoption among engineering teams. The four-part series introduces the pattern and explores its benefits and potential pitfalls. The company also shares available alternatives to using the BFF pattern and reviews architectural considerations.
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Expedia Speeds up Flights Search with Micro Frontends and GraphQL Optimizations
Expedia made flight search faster by up to 52% (page usable time) by applying a range of optimizations to web and mobile applications. To support these improvements, the company improved the observability of its applications. Expedia Flights web application has been migrated to Micro Frontend Architecture (MFA) to allow flexibility, reusability, and better optimization.
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Uber Builds Scalable Chat Using Microservices with GraphQL Subscriptions and Kafka
Uber replaced a legacy architecture built using the WAMP protocol with a new solution that takes advantage of GraphQL subscriptions. The main drivers for creating a new architecture were challenges around reliability, scalability, observability/debugibility, as well as technical debt impeding the team’s ability to maintain the existing solution.
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The Guardian Creates a Newsroom Collaboration Tool Using Serverless, React and GraphQL
The Guardian created Pinboard, a discussion and asset-sharing tool integrated into a variety of content management platforms used by the company. The solution uses a range of technologies, including Typescript for coding the business logic, different serverless services for code execution, API endpoints, and GraphQL server, as well as AWS RDS (PostgreSQL) for storage.
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QCon SF 2023: How Netflix Really Uses Java by Paul Bakker
Paul Bakker, Java Platform at Netflix, Java Champion, and co-author of "Java 9 Modularity," presented How Netflix Really Uses Java at the 2023 QCon San Francisco conference. Bakker described the evolution of the architecture behind their movie application, introduced the GraphQL Federation, and described how Java is used at Netflix that includes plans to support JDK 21.
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Java News Roundup: JNoSQL 1.0, Liberica NIK 23.0, Micronaut 4.0-RC2, Log4j 3.0-Alpha1, KCDC, JCON
This week's Java roundup for June 19th, 2023, features news from JDK 22, JDK 21, updates to: Spring Boot; Spring Security; Spring Vault; Spring for GraphQL; Spring Authorization Server and Spring Modulith; Liberica NIK 23.0, Semeru 20.0.1, Micronaut 4.0-RC2 and 3.9.4, JNoSQL 1.0, Vert.x 4.4.4, updates to: Apache Tomcat, Camel, Log4j and JMeter; JHipster Lite 0.35, KCDC 2023 and JCON Europe 2023.
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AWS Amplify for Swift Reaches 2.0, Brings Async/Await and macOS Support
Previously known as AWS Amplify iOS, AWS Amplify for Swift now offers a rewritten API to support Swift async/await and make concurrency code more idiomatic. Additionally, the new release introduces beta support on macOS for a number of AWS features, including Auth, Storage, Geo, and others.
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Scaling GraphQL Adoption at Netflix: Tejas Shikhare at QCon San Francisco 2022
At QCon San Francisco 2022, Tejas Shikhare, senior software engineer at Netflix, presented Scaling GraphQL Adoption at Netflix. Shikhare has been working at Netflix’s federated GraphQL platform, distributed systems, and, more recently, developer tools and education. This talk is part of the editorial track Modern APIs: Building and Evolving.
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Spring for GraphQL Version 1.0 Released
Less than two years after its inception, Spring for GraphQL 1.0 has been released. The project integrates Spring and GraphQL Java and was developed in collaboration between both teams.