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AI, ML & Data Engineering

Comparative Analysis of Major Distributed File System Architectures: GFS vs. Tectonic vs. JuiceFS

As storage needs continue to grow, traditional disk file systems have revealed their limitations. To address the growing storage demands, distributed file systems have emerged as dynamic and scalable solutions. In this article, we explore the design principles, innovations, and challenges addressed by three representative distributed file systems: Google File System (GFS), Tectonic, and JuiceFS.

Changjian Gao
on Jun 26, 2023
Cloud

A Comprehensive Guide to Building Event-Driven Architecture on Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud

In this article, you'll find guidance to Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud resources, along with unique architecture examples that incorporate the AWS EventBridge, SNS, Azure Service Bus, Eventgrid, and Google Cloud Eventarc. These examples can help you better grasp the resources’ concepts and enable you to kickstart building your own architecture using an event-driven approach.

Boris Zaikin
on Jun 22, 2023
Culture & Methods

Shift in Sprint Review Mindset: from Reporting to Inclusive Ideation

Sprint Reviews should foster a dynamic environment of creativity, exploration, and continual refinement, where important product and overall business decisions are taken. In this article, we will explore the substantial mindset shift and routine change from a typical reporting-focused to interactive data-driven culture of Sprint Reviews.

Yuliia Pieskova
on Jun 21, 2023
DevOps

Debugging Production: eBPF Chaos

This article shares insights into learning eBPF as a new cloud-native technology which aims to improve Observability and Security workflows. You’ll learn how chaos engineering can help, and get an insight into eBPF based observability and security use cases. Breaking them in a professional way also inspires new ideas for chaos engineering itself.

Michael Friedrich
on Jun 20, 2023
Java

Exploring Java Records beyond Data Transfer Objects

Records are a concise and easy-to-use syntax for creating immutable classes. By using Records, you can ensure that your APIs are bulletproof and less prone to errors. Additionally, Records can be applied with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles to create more robust and maintainable code. Learning to use Records and apply them with DDD can help you make more resilient and scalable applications.

Otavio Santana
on Jun 19, 2023
Cloud

Service Assurance in Private LTE/5G Networks

This article talks about service assurance in the context of cellular networks, how private networks pose additional needs, and how an end-to-end service assurance framework can be designed and developed for such networks.

Harpreet Kaur
on Jun 16, 2023
Development

Debugging Go Code: Using pprof and trace to Diagnose and Fix Performance Issues

In this article, we will look at how to identify and fix performance issues in Go programs using the pprof and trace packages. We will begin by covering the fundamentals of the tools, then delving into practical examples of how to use them. By the end of this article, you will have a solid understanding of how to use these powerful tools to improve the performance of your Go applications.

Oghenevwede Emeni
on Jun 15, 2023
Culture & Methods

Using Trauma-Informed Approaches in Agile Environments

Scientific and clinical understanding of how the human nervous system develops and works has increased tremendously. Its implications are so profound they radiate far beyond the field of psychology. Topics such as trauma-informed law, volleyball coaching, legal counseling, education, and social activism have arisen. It is time to consider how it affects working in an agile tech environment.

Anton Skornyakov
on Jun 15, 2023
Architecture & Design

Using Project Orleans to Build Actor-Based Solutions on the .Net Platform

This article takes a look at Project Orleans, an actor model framework from Microsoft. Version 7 makes it a lot easier to get started with, as it builds on top of the .NET IHost abstraction. This allows us to add it to .NET applications in a simple way. On top of that it abstracts away most of the complicated parts, allowing us to focus on the important stuff, the problems we need to solve.

Chris Klug
on Jun 14, 2023
DevOps

Thinking Deductively to Understand Complex Software Systems

Thinking differently can allow us to approach problems in new ways. With testing, approaching the problem with a negative approach can lead to more thorough test cases.

Martin Rixham
on Jun 13, 2023
AI, ML & Data Engineering

In-Process Analytical Data Management with DuckDB

DuckDB is an open-source OLAP database for analytical data management that operates as an in-process database, avoiding data transfer overhead. Leveraging vectorized query processing and Morsel-Driven parallelism, the database optimizes performances and multi-core utilization for analytical data processing.

Hannes Mühleisen
on Jun 12, 2023
Java

How to Manage Full-Stack Java Development with Hilla

This article explores Hilla, an open-source framework that offers an approach to web application development by integrating a Spring Boot Java backend with a reactive TypeScript frontend. It uses either Lit or React, combined with Vaadin’s 40+ open-source UI web components for interface creation. It also generates REST APIs and client access codes, a secure, stateless backend architecture.

Simon Martinelli
on Jun 08, 2023