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Billions of Messages Per Minute Over TCP/IP
Chronicle Wire offers an alternative way of transferring data between systems, delivering more messages, faster, than common JSON/XML approaches. This approach to data serialization improves both latency and throughput.
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A Simple Framework for Architectural Decisions
This article describes a framework for making architectural decisions using three building blocks: The company's own Technology Radar; Technology Standards; and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs). The framework clarifies decision-making, team involvement, and information on already made decisions and aligns with the company's needs and culture.
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Using ASP.NET Core 7 Minimal APIs: Request Filters, Parameter Mapping, and More
Several features have been added to Minimal APIs with the .NET 7 release. This tutorial shows how they are now almost as powerful as traditional controller-based APIs while being far less verbose.
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The Future of Istio: Sidecar-Less and Sidecar with Ambient Mesh
Istio's new ambient mesh allows for a sidecar-less data plane. This article discusses the advantages of that approach and the work that went into making it a reality.
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Contract-Driven Development – a Real-World Adoption Journey
Contract-driven development adoption is not just about tooling or practices, it involves changing how people work with each other and in order to influence such changes, the roadmap for adoption should account for the learning curve and demonstrate value incrementally at each stage to individual team members and the organization as a whole.
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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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The Wonders of Postgres Logical Decoding Messages
In this article, author Gunnar Morling discusses Postgres database's logical decoding function to retrieve the messages from write-ahead log, process them, and relay them to external consumers, with help of use cases like outbox, audit logs and replication slots.
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How to Have More Effective Conversations with Business Stakeholders About Software Architecture
Technical leaders must be able to communicate with business stakeholders to effectively design software solutions that meet the business needs and stay within an established cost threshold. Making architectural decisions requires understanding the desired quality attributes that will affect trade-off discussions between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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The Future of Service Mesh is Networking
On this journey, we will discover that, to quote David Mooter, “The future of service mesh is as a networking feature, not a product category, as far out of sight and mind from developers as possible—and that is a good thing.”
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The Process of Creating Decentralized Apps (dApps)
A decentralized application has a different architectural approach; they are working on distributed ledger technology called blockchain, where there is no central point of failure nor third parties involved. A revolutionary and attractive technology for new opportunities. This article covers creating such applications and why they are needed, as well as challenges during implementation.
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Moving Past Simple Incident Metrics: Courtney Nash on the VOID
The Verica Open Incident Database (VOID) is assembling publically available software-related incident reports. InfoQ talks with Courtney Nash about their recent findings including how MTT* metrics may not be beneficial, the average time to incident resolution, and the importance of studying near-miss reports.
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Your Tech Stack Doesn’t Do What Everyone Needs It To. What Next?
Stack extensibility is an essential trait of well-designed IT ecosystems. Low-code BPA (Business Process Automation) has advantages that puts it at the forefront of approaches to stack extensibility. Learn how low-code software increases process resiliency by empowering business teams with an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand and, most of all, IT-sanctioned set of tools.