InfoQ Homepage Architecture & Design Content on InfoQ
-
Kubernetes Usage Expanding in Large and Small Companies, CNCF Survey Shows
Survey results from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) revealed accelerating adoption of Kubernetes and containers, especially in production environments. This echoed the findings from the new, enterprise-focused, State of Kubernetes 2020 report from VMware.
-
OpenSilver: Open-Source Silverlight via WebAssembly
Earlier this month, Userware released the first version of OpenSilver, an open-source reimplementation of Silverlight. OpenSilver runs on current browsers via WebAssembly, without requiring any additional plug-ins. The current version of OpenSilver is available as "Technology Preview." It covers about 60% of the original Silverlight API and is available as a Visual Studio 2019 extension.
-
Exploring Costs of Coordination During Outages with Laura Maguire at QCon London
Laura Maguire talked at QCon London about how the coordinative efforts during outages cause a high cognitive cost. Maguire found out that coordination during anomaly response is difficult, that existing models can undermine speedy resolution, and that the strategies to control the cost of coordination are adaptive to the type of incident. Moreover, tooling has additional costs of coordination.
-
How to Debug Your Team: QCon London Q&A
Lisa van Gelder spoke about debugging your team at QCon London 2020, where she presented her toolkit for how to diagnose and address issues with a team’s pace of delivery. “It is all about ensuring they have mastery, autonomy, purpose and psychological safety”, she said. She uses that toolkit to introduce change to teams in a way that gets the buy-in from the team.
-
Tailwind CSS 1.2 Release Adds CSS Grid Support
Tailwind CSS, a low-level CSS framework, recently released Tailwind CSS version 1.2, adding support for CSS Grid Layout, CSS Transitions, and CSS Transforms.
-
What Comes after Microservices? Multi-Runtime Microservices with Bilgin Ibryam at QCon London
Bilgin Ibryam talked at QCon London about the evolution of distributed systems on Kubernetes and the future architecture trends. Ibryam said that the next trend would be to decouple infrastructure concerns from microservices. Ibryam calls this multi-runtime microservices, a service with business logic along with a sidecar in charge of state management, networking, binding, and lifecycle.
-
Fastify Node.js Web Framework
Fastify is an open-source Node.js web framework that remains focused on providing excellent developer experience, minimal performance overhead, and a flexible plugin architecture.
-
Tone.js Interactive Music Web Framework
Tone.js leverages the Web Audio API to provide a framework for creating interactive music in the browser.
-
Confluent Offers Apache Kafka as a Service on the Azure Marketplace
In a recent blog post, Confluent announced the general availability of Confluent Cloud on Microsoft Azure. Confluent Cloud is a fully managed Apache Kafka service that removes the burden of operationally managing Kafka for engineers.
-
Microsoft Ships Preview of Cluster-Friendly Cloud Disks
Storage is one of the more mature services in the public cloud, but rarely supports traditional clustered systems. To attract those on-premises workloads, the Microsoft Azure team released a preview of Azure Shared Disks, a block storage option for attaching managed disks to multiple virtual machines.
-
How to Embrace “You Build It, You Run It” with Paul Hammant at QCon London
Paul Hammant talked at QCon London about having developers responsible for the first line of support in production, as the saying goes, “if you build it, you run it.” Hammant recommends following this practice only if there are proper support levels and escalation policies defined. As a result, companies could reduce the chances of burnout or staff quitting.
-
Tenko ES2020 JavaScript Parser
Tenko is a 100% specification compliant JavaScript parser authored in JavaScript. Tenko fully supports parsing for ES6 through ES2020 syntax and language features.
-
How N26 Scales Technology through Hypergrowth
As N26 grew fast, they had to scale their technology to keep up. This meant scaling not only their infrastructure, but also their teams; for instance, they had to decide how to distribute work over teams and what technology to use or not use. Folger Fonseca, software engineer and Tech Lead at N26, shared his experience from scaling technology at N26 at QCon London 2020.
-
DevOps beyond Development and Operations with Patrick Debois at QCon London
Patrick Debois talked at QCon London about thinking of DevOps beyond development and operation silos. DevOps is inherently complex, and there are other risks, challenges, and bottlenecks outside the software delivery pipeline where collaboration is vital, for instance, when collaborating with other groups like suppliers, HR, marketing, sales, finance, or legal.
-
Splice Machine Data Platform 3.0 Supports Kubernetes Managed Service and New ML Manager
The latest version of distributed SQL data platform Splice Machine supports a new Kubernetes managed service, new version of Machine Learning Manager (v2.0), and automatic in-database model deployment.