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Agility and Architecture: Balancing Minimum Viable Product and Minimum Viable Architecture

Software architecture and agility are often portrayed as incompatible. In reality, they are mutually reinforcing - a sound architecture helps teams build better solutions in a series of short intervals, and gradually evolving a system’s architecture helps by validating and improving it over time.

Kurt Bittner Pierre Pureur
on Apr 24, 2023
Culture & Methods

Dark Side of DevOps - the Price of Shifting Left and Ways to Make it Affordable

Topics like “you build it, you run it” and “shifting testing/security/data governance left” are popular. Moving things to earlier stages of software development, empowering engineers. Yet, what is the cost? What does it mean for the developers who are involved? What are the solutions that can help you keep DevOps and Shifting Left? What can we do to break a grip of the dark side? Let’s find out!

Mykyta Protsenko
on Apr 21, 2023
DevOps

Adopting an API Maturity Model to Accelerate Innovation

As your APIs gain more popularity, API sprawl can become an issue. A top-down governance approach is best suited to managing APIs at scale.

Darshan Shivashankar
on Apr 19, 2023
Culture & Methods

The Journey from Underrepresented IC to CTO: How Open Source Helped

This article tells the story of a minority woman's journey from DBA to co-founder & CTO, using open source to overcome gender disparity. It provides insights on career shifting, open-source monetization, and the distinction between IC and CTO. The author shares advice and insights that may be helpful for others.

Trista Pan
on Apr 18, 2023
Java

Unleash the Power of Open Source Java Profilers: Comparing VisualVM, JMC, and async-profiler

This article conveys the foundational concepts and different types of Open Source Java profilers. It allows you to choose the best-suited profiler for your needs and comprehend how these tools work in principle. The aim of a profiler is to obtain information on the program execution so that a developer can see how much time a method executed in a given period.

Johannes Bechberger
on Apr 13, 2023
Development

A Simpler Testing Pyramid: Getting the Most out of Your Tests

Overcomplicating your test structure can lead to slow, brittle tests. A focus on test speed as the primary labeling mechanism maximizes your test investment.

Tyson Gern
on Apr 10, 2023
Architecture & Design

InfoQ Software Architecture and Design Trends Report - April 2023

This article provides an overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2023, with a focus on what architects are designing for today.

Thomas Betts Blanca Garcia Gil Daniel Bryant Eran Stiller Vasco Veloso Tanmay Deshpande
on Apr 07, 2023
DevOps

The Silent Platform Revolution: How eBPF Is Fundamentally Transforming Cloud-Native Platforms

There is a silent eBPF revolution reshaping platforms and the cloud-native world in its image, and this is its story.

Bill Mulligan Daniel Borkmann
on Apr 06, 2023
Java

Migrate a RMI-Based Legacy Application to WebSocket

Technical debt, especially in enterprise software, is a relevant problem that developers recurrently have to face. This article provides a use case related to removing technical debt in a large enterprise application based on an old fashioned Remote Method Invocation (RMI) protocol, and migrating it toward modern cloud-aware communication technologies.

Bartolomeo Sorrentino
on Apr 05, 2023
Culture & Methods

Assessing Organizational Culture to Drive SRE Adoption

SRE adoption is greatly influenced by the organizational culture at hand. This article describes how to assess the organizational culture in terms of production operations at the beginning of the SRE transformation. It provides a roadmap of small culture changes accumulating over time, and shows how the leadership facilitated the necessary culture changes

Vladyslav Ukis
on Apr 04, 2023
DevOps

When DevOps Meets Security to Protect Software

Security can no longer be an afterthought in the software development process. Collaboration between security and development needs to happen early to be effective.

Franklyne Omondi
on Apr 03, 2023
Java

Rapid Startup of Your Cloud-Native Java Applications without Compromise

This article discusses the significance of startup time in cloud-native computing, highlighting challenges for JVM-based apps. It introduces Liberty InstantOn, which boosts startup times using checkpoint/restore technology, offering fast startup without compromising Java capabilities or facing static compilation trade-offs.

Tobi Ajila Thomas Watson
on Apr 01, 2023