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Building a Banking Infrastructure with Microservices: QCon London Q&A
In a few years, the number of microservices has grown from 100 to 1600 at Monzo, and it continues to grow. Microservices are split when responsibilities grow, or merged when services are tightly coupled. Engineers can generate, deploy, scale and monitor their own services using code generation.
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InfoQ Live Virtual Event on Aug 25th: Session Spotlights and Roundtables
The inaugural InfoQ Live (Aug 25th) is a one-day virtual learning event that deep-dives into building and operating microservices and distributed systems. Discover practical strategies for the current environment that you can put into use straight away. Join world-class practitioners for inspiration, connections, and actionable ideas. See the InfoQ Live full schedule and the speaker line-up.
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Dropbox Improves Sync Performance Using a Modified Brotli
After analyzing the performance of several common lossless compression algorithms, Dropbox engineers have slightly modified Google's Brotli encoder to improve their engine sync performance. This reduced median latency and data transfer by more than 30%, Dropbox engineers Rishabh Jain and Daniel Reiter Horn maintain.
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Micronaut 2.0 Enhances Tooling, Improves Support for Serverless and GraalVM
Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) has formally released Micronaut 2.0, a major release of the full-stack JVM-based framework that helps create microservices-based, cloud-native and serverless applications utilizing languages such as Java, Groovy, and Kotlin.
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Q&A with Jeff Keyes of Plutora on the Transformative Impact of Value Stream Management
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) recently published their DevOps 2021 research that forecasts nearly 50% growth in VSM vendor penetration during 2020, and suggests VSM vendors are delivering against expectations. InfoQ spoke to Plutora, a leading VSM platform provider to understand what VSM adoption involves, how it can have a transformative impact and how it can fail.
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Eventuate Platform Adds Support for Micronaut, Enhanced Developer Tooling and Improved Performance
Eventuate.io has released a new version of the Eventuate platform, adding support for Micronaut, enhanced developer tooling, and improved performance. It also upgrades to Java 14 and Spring Boot 2.2.6.
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Gremlin Announces General Availability of Status Checks
Gremlin recently announced the general availability of Status Checks. This new feature automatically validates systems that are healthy and ready for running chaos experiments in production.
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Microsoft Introduces the Azure Well-Architected Framework
In a recent blog post, Microsoft introduced the Azure Well-Architected Framework, which provides customers with a set of Azure architecture best practices to help them build and deliver well-designed solutions.
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AWS Serverless Application Model Supports Step Functions State Machines
The AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) recently gained support for AWS Step Functions state machines. The new AWS::Serverless::StateMachine resource type enables developers to define state machines within a SAM template or in a separate file so that they can provision workflow orchestration as an integrated part of serverless applications.
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Svelte Adds Official TypeScript Support
The Svelte JavaScript framework leverages TypeScript, but until recently, it was challenging to use TypeScript to create Svelte web apps. The latest Svelte updates add official TypeScript support to Svelte.
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Microsoft .NET Conf: Focus on Microservices
Yesterday, the third edition of the .NET Conf: Focus series took place, this time featuring microservices development with .NET. The event targeted developers of all stripes, with live coding demonstrations and comprehensive coverage on related concepts and tools. The focus conferences are free, one-day livestream events featuring speakers from the community and .NET product teams.
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Ionic Capacitor 2 Improves Mobile Authentication and Cross-Domain HTTPS
The recent Ionic Capacitor 2 release updates the underlying Swift, XCode, and Android versions, adds Face Unlock and Iris Unlock, improves the core Capacitor plugins, and simplifies cross-domain HTTPS requests.
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Infinite Storage & Retention for Apache Kafka in Confluent Cloud
Confluent, Inc. recently announced the Infinite Storage option for its standard and dedicated clusters. This offering is a part of the Project Metamorphosis initiative, which is focused on enabling Kafka with modern cloud properties. Organizations can have a centralized platform for all event data for real-time actioning and historical analysis with limitless storage and retention.
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Introducing InfoQ Live: a Microservices Virtual Event on Tuesday, August 25th
We are excited to introduce InfoQ Live, a one-day virtual learning event designed for you, the modern software practitioner. You’ll get to deep dive into the topics of building and operating microservices with world-class practitioners and discover practical strategies that you can put to use straight away. Join us on August 25th, 2020, at 9 AM EDT / 3 PM CEST. Register now for only $49.
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Fastify 3.0 Improves Performance, Logging, Schema, and TypeScript Support
Fastify is an open-source, low-performance overhead Node.js web framework. Fastify version 3 introduces support for running Express applications inside Fastify, adds improvements to logging serialization and schema substitution, and provides better TypeScript definition support.