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The Role of Digital Twins in Unlocking the Cloud's Potential

This article explores the use of the DT concept as a new way to make cloud services more developer-friendly. This new model aligns the development, deployment, and now the runtime aspects of a microservice into a single, cohesive unit, bridging the gap between developers and the cloud and paving the way for a new era of cloud services.

Bilgin Ibryam
on Jul 28, 2023
Culture & Methods

Actionable Green Choices for Your Software, Your Products, and You

Climate change is no longer just a huge worry cloud hanging over our heads. There are solutions, choices, and actions we can take - for ourselves, our children, and the future. This article gives you information about some of those choices: some bare glimpses into the art of the possible; others are tried and tested methods with known outcomes.

Joanna Masraff
on Jul 27, 2023
Architecture & Design

Enhancing Your "Definition of Done" Can Improve Your Minimum Viable Architecture

A Definition of Done describes the criteria that determines whether a software product is releasable. While normally focused on functional aspects of quality, teams can strengthen the quality and sustainability of their products if they expand their DoD to include architectural considerations.

Pierre Pureur Kurt Bittner
on Jul 19, 2023
Culture & Methods

IDEA: a Framework for Nurturing a Culture of Continuous Experimentation

For a team to be agile, they need a culture that allows them to learn, unlearn, and relearn. This article explains how teams can foster such a culture, navigate through the complexities of modern development environments and harness agility to deliver software quickly that fits the needs of users and business sponsors. It describes a framework to explore, plan, implement and evaluate ideas.

Sarah Aslanifar
on Jul 18, 2023
DevOps

InfoQ DevOps and Cloud Trends Report – July 2023

InfoQ editorial staff and friends of InfoQ are discussing the current trends in the domain of cloud and DevOps as part of the process of creating our annual trends report. These reports provide InfoQ readers with a high-level overview of the topics to pay attention to and help the editorial team focus on innovative technologies.

Steef-Jan Wiggers Daniel Bryant Matt Campbell Helen Beal Abby Bangser
on Jul 17, 2023
Culture & Methods

Adaptive, Socio-Technical Systems with Architecture for Flow: Wardley Maps, DDD, and Team Topologies

Designing for adaptability sounds easier than done. How do you design and build systems that can evolve and thrive in the face of constant change? This article provides a high-level introduction to combining Wardley Mapping, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and Team Topologies to design and build adaptive, socio-technical systems optimized for a fast flow of change.

Susanne Kaiser
on Jul 10, 2023
Culture & Methods

Autism at the Workplace: Autism Coaching as a Methodology

As a person with autism or other neurodiversity, it’s important to get to know yourself really well. It’s even better if another person can get to know you from the inside-out. Dennie Declercq and his mom Ivette Marchand found a way to allow for open and vulnerable communication between them. They made Declercq’s life-manual, which enables him to be happy and productive as a software developer.

Ben Linders Dennie Declercq Ivette Marchand
on Jul 05, 2023
.NET

TimeProvider and ITimer: Writing Unit Tests with Time in .NET 8 Preview 4

The article discusses the challenges of writing unit tests and handling date and time in .NET. TimeProvider and ITimer are new universal time abstractions available in NET 8 Preview 4 for dependency injections and unit testing, offering extensive functionality for managing time-related operations.

Artur Ampilogov
on Jul 04, 2023
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Creating Your Own AI Co-Author Using C++

While using ChatGPT through a web interface is one thing, creating your own autonomous AI tool that interfaces with ChatGPT via its API is a different story altogether. As strong proponents of C++, in this article we are going to present a GPT tool written in C++ to ease the pain of dealing with the daunting task of editing endless editorial comments.

Michael Haephrati Ruth Haephrati
on Jul 03, 2023
Architecture & Design

Designing the Jit Analytics Architecture for Scale and Reuse

As a SaaS provider, analytical data at Jit needs to be useful to both their customers and to internal stakeholders. AWS services including EventBridge, Kinesis Data Firehose, and Timestream handle data ingestion and UI platforms from Mixpanel and Segment provide data visualization.

Ariel Beck Hen Kling Jonathan Rosenboim
on Jun 29, 2023
Culture & Methods

Embracing ADHD and Other Neurodivergencies in Software Development Teams

In recent years, there has been increased attention to neurodivergencies such as ADHD, hyper-sensitivity, autism, dyslexia, etc. In this article, Dietrich Moerman tells his own story about ADHD while working as a software developer and becoming a team lead, what he learned, and what he found to be working well to help people with ADHD and more to thrive in their teams and companies.

Dietrich Moerman
on Jun 28, 2023
Java

A Comprehensive Guide to Java's New Feature: Pattern Matching for Switch

Java brings an update with Pattern Matching for Switch. This article provides a detailed exploration of this feature, examining its support for any reference type, inclusion of null values, and introduction of guarded patterns. It also delves into the new runtime exception class - MatchException, and illustrates the compatibility of this feature with traditional switch statements.

Deepak Vohra
on Jun 27, 2023