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From Dependency to Autonomy: Building an In-House E-signing Service
While many companies rely on third-party services, there’s a growing realization that an in-house solution can offer more control, flexibility, and cost savings. In this article, we’ll delve into how to build an e-signing microservice.
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Domain-Driven Cloud: Aligning Your Cloud Architecture to Your Business Model
Domain-Driven Cloud (DDC) is an approach for creating your organization’s cloud architecture based on your business model. Based on Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and the architecture principle of high cohesion and low coupling, this article introduces DDC including the technical and human benefits of aligning your cloud architecture to the bounded contexts in your business model.
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Monitoring Critical User Journeys in Azure
Flowe explains how they combine metrics from many sources together in Azure to monitor Critical User Journeys and prevent downtime for a critical application.
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A Guide to the Quarkus 3 Azure Functions Extension: Bootstrap Java Microservices with Ease
A guide to using Azure Functions with Quarkus 3, for HTTP and non-HTTP functions. Covers newer native integration for serverless functions.
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Migrating to the Cloud: Is It as Intimidating as It Appears?
Being Cloud Native is often considered crucial for business success in the current business landscape. However, the perception of becoming “Cloud Native” as a drastic change for a business might not necessarily be accurate. In this article, we will delve into the concept of Cloud Migration and its effects on the IT support infrastructure of your business.
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Step One to Successfully Building Your Platform: Building It Together
You may feel that investing in an internal platform is a win, but the business may need more convincing. This article covers how to frame your case in a way that the business can understand and support.
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Containers and Serverless—Rivals or Cohorts?
This article will try to decode these technologies and explore how developers should consider containers or serverless functions within their tech stack. For example, if your application has a longer startup time, then a container would suit the need better. Highly efficient stateless functions that need to scale up and down massively would benefit from running serverless functions.
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Hard-Won Lessons from the Trenches: Failure Modes of Platform Engineering — and How to Avoid Them
Platform Engineering is a hot topic with many orgs hoping to reap the benefits. However, it is easy to go astray. This article reviews the common pitfalls of building a platform and how to avoid them.
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Platform Engineering 101: What You Need to Know about This Hot New Trend
Platform engineering is a current hot topic with a rapidly growing tooling ecosystem and landscape. This article reviews many of the important trends in platform engineering.
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The Challenge of Cognitive Load in Platform Engineering: a Discussion with Paula Kennedy
In a recent article, Paula Kennedy shared her thoughts on the ever-increasing cognitive load being saddled onto development teams. Although platform engineering is touted as a solution to this challenge, a poorly designed platform will increase the cognitive burden on developers utilizing it. We must also be careful that we are not just transferring that cognitive load onto the platform teams.
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Build, Test, and Deploy Scalable REST APIs in Go
In this article, we'll look at how to use the gin framework to create a simple Go application. We will also learn how to use CircleCI, a continuous deployment tool, to automate testing and deployment.
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Polyglot Microservices Communication Using Dapr on AKS
Dapr is a useful tool for solving several challenges engineers might face. It allows engineering organizations to gain productivity by training developers on a common set of tools and techniques. It also helps adopt standardization in development, deployment, and debugging.