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InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report - March 2023

The two biggest factors influencing organisational culture in early 2023 are the highly publicised and hugely disruptive layoffs across the tech industry and the emergence of Large Language Models such as ChatGPT.

Shane Hastie Rebecca Parsons Rafiq Gemmail Ben Linders Shaaron A Alvares Craig Smith
on Mar 31, 2023
Cloud

12 Places to Intervene - Rethink FinOps Using a Systems Thinking Lens

A recent study on FinOps by McKinsey reveals that 69% of organizations prioritize tactical initiatives over higher-impact strategic initiatives. One reason could be that most of those organizations are unaware of those strategic initiatives or unaware of their importance of them. In this article, I will analyze via a System Thinking lens how to prioritize the efforts to address those problems.

Arunkumar Arunachalam
on Mar 30, 2023
DevOps

Accelerating the Secure Software Delivery Lifecycle with GitOps

Building secure software can be complicated and time-consuming. By employing a GitOps model, security can be safely separated from development, simplifying the delivery process and increasing velocity.

Gopinath Rebala
on Mar 27, 2023
Java

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.

George Ball
on Mar 24, 2023
DevOps

Improving CI/CD Pipelines through Observability

CI/CD pipelines are a vital addition to any workflow, but they can be further improved by the selective addition of observability. This article covers what data to monitor, which metrics to track, and how to best visualize the collected data.

Craig Risi
on Mar 23, 2023
Culture & Methods

How Visual Thinking Can Help Teams Get Clarity, Be More Creative, and Have More Inclusive Meetings

Visual thinking is a way of making sense of the world through images, putting thoughts into pictures. This article is here to help you understand about visual thinking, and how you could use it to support yourself and your teams to create a more inclusive, creative and collaborative culture at work.

Gemma Honour
on Mar 22, 2023
Architecture & Design

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.

Grygoriy Gonchar
on Mar 21, 2023
.NET

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.

Fiodar Sazanavets
on Mar 20, 2023
Culture & Methods

Technology's Carbon Impact and What You Can Do about It

Achieving a balance between growth and efficiency can be a formidable task. However, software engineers can play a critical role at the nexus of both. This article discusses open source software tools and methodologies for balancing carbon with growth across IT organizations, and provides actionable approaches to greening IT organizations.

Marco Valtas Lisa McNally
on Mar 16, 2023
Cloud

The Great Lambda Migration to Kubernetes Jobs—a Journey in Three Parts

In this article, I’d like to share our journey at Firefly on a great migration from serverless to Kubernetes jobs, lessons learned, and the technologies that helped us do so with minimal pain.

Liav Yona
on Mar 15, 2023
DevOps

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.

Lin Sun
on Mar 14, 2023
Architecture & Design

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.

Hari Krishnan
on Mar 13, 2023