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Migrating to the Cloud: Is It as Intimidating as It Appears?
Being Cloud Native is often considered crucial for business success in the current business landscape. However, the perception of becoming “Cloud Native” as a drastic change for a business might not necessarily be accurate. In this article, we will delve into the concept of Cloud Migration and its effects on the IT support infrastructure of your business.
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What Are Cloud-Bound Applications?
The increasing adoption of application-first cloud services is causing applications to blend with the cloud services at levels much deeper than before. The runtime boundaries between the application and the cloud are shifting from virtual machines to containers and functions.
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How Skyscanner Embedded a Team Metrics Culture for Continuous Improvement
This article explains why Skyscanner decided not just to deploy a tool, but to think about this as changing their engineering management culture to being one that values and utilises metrics to drive greater improvement at scale. It shows how they evaluated tools to find one that would enable their teams and reinforce the cultural change that was the fundamental goal of this exercise.
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Step One to Successfully Building Your Platform: Building It Together
You may feel that investing in an internal platform is a win, but the business may need more convincing. This article covers how to frame your case in a way that the business can understand and support.
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The Wonders of Postgres Logical Decoding Messages
In this article, author Gunnar Morling discusses Postgres database's logical decoding function to retrieve the messages from write-ahead log, process them, and relay them to external consumers, with help of use cases like outbox, audit logs and replication slots.
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Interactive Microservices as an Alternative to Micro Front-Ends for Modularizing the UI Layer
While microservices architectures are well established for the back-ends of software systems, the same cannot be said for front-ends. Interactive microservices are based on a new type of web API that Qworum defines, the multi-phase web API, where the endpoint calls may involve more than one request-response pair, also called a phase.
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Writing Cloud Native Network Functions (CNFs): One Concern per Container
This article discusses the “one concern, one process” design for containers and Cloud native network functions (CNFs).
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How to Rebuild Tech Culture for Those Who Survived the Layoffs
A wave of layoffs hit the software industry and changed the definition of tech culture. This article explores the situation across multiple tech companies, and the diverse choices made to support employees who survived, and those they had to say good-bye to. It provides suggestions for those of us who have stayed behind, and how to rebuild culture in our tech teams.
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How to Have More Effective Conversations with Business Stakeholders About Software Architecture
Technical leaders must be able to communicate with business stakeholders to effectively design software solutions that meet the business needs and stay within an established cost threshold. Making architectural decisions requires understanding the desired quality attributes that will affect trade-off discussions between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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The Future of Service Mesh is Networking
On this journey, we will discover that, to quote David Mooter, “The future of service mesh is as a networking feature, not a product category, as far out of sight and mind from developers as possible—and that is a good thing.”
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Moving towards a Future of Testing in the Metaverse
In this article, Tariq King describes the metaverse concept, discusses its key engineering challenges and quality concerns, and then walks through recent technological advances in AI and software testing that are helping to mitigate these challenges. To wrap up, he shares some of his thoughts on the role of software testers as we move towards a future of testing in the metaverse.
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Understanding and Applying Correspondence Analysis
Customer segments, personality profiles, social classes, and age generations are examples of effective references to larger groups of people sharing similar characteristics. Correspondence analysis (CA) is a multivariate analysis technique that projects categorical data into a numeric feature space which captures most of the variability in the data by fewer dimensions.