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Article Series: Developing Apache Kafka applications on Kubernetes

Apache Kafka has integrations with most of the languages used these days, but in this article series, we cover its integration with Java. In this series, we also discuss how to provision, configure and secure an Apache Kafka cluster on a Kubernetes cluster.

Alex Soto
on Feb 06, 2023
Development

Designing for Concurrency: the Hilbert’s Hotel Problem in Go

In this article, we want to show how achieving concurrency is the result of an appropriate design. A concurrent solution may turn out to be more elegant and easier to reason about than an equivalent sequential algorithm. To illustrate these concepts we use, as an example, the Hilbert’s Hotel mathematical problem.

Enrico Piccinin
on Feb 03, 2023
Cloud

Lambda Throttling - How to Avoid It?

This article aims to explain best practices if you have throttled your application and services and suggestions for how to handle these cases. We performed an in-house experiment at Jit (a SaaS-based DevSecOps platform) built on serverless to learn how our application behaves.

Shlomi Kushchi
on Feb 02, 2023
DevOps

If Twitter Doesn’t Have a Staging Environment, Should Anyone?

With Twitter revealing they do not have a staging environment, how important is staging to delivering quality? When so many tasks are shifting to the developer these days and no one best developer approach fits all, how do dev teams determine the best developer methodology for them and their company?

Dan Faulkner
on Feb 01, 2023
Culture & Methods

Your Tech Stack Doesn’t Do What Everyone Needs It To. What Next?

Stack extensibility is an essential trait of well-designed IT ecosystems. Low-code BPA (Business Process Automation) has advantages that puts it at the forefront of approaches to stack extensibility. Learn how low-code software increases process resiliency by empowering business teams with an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand and, most of all, IT-sanctioned set of tools.

Alessio Alionco
on Jan 31, 2023
.NET

Accessing .NET gRPC Endpoints from Anywhere via JSON Transcoding

JSON transcoding is a feature that has been added to gRPC in .NET 7. It allows gRPC endpoints to be accessible via a REST API, and it's much easier to set up than any alternative technology available at the time of writing, such as gRPC-Gateway and gRPC-Web.

Fiodar Sazanavets
on Jan 30, 2023
Development

Article Series: PHP 8.x

PHP continues to be one of the most widely used scripting languages on the web with 77.3% of all the websites whose server-side programming language is known using it according to w3tech. PHP 8 brings many new features and other improvements, which we shall explore in this article series.

Deepak Vohra
on Jan 30, 2023
Culture & Methods

How to Use Your Existing Software Development Process Data to Find More Bugs in Less Time

This article presents better solutions that employ data from the system under test and the tests themselves to optimize testing efforts. This allows teams to find more bugs (by making sure that bug-dense areas are tested) in less time (by reducing the executions of tests that are very unlikely to detect bugs).

Elmar Jürgens
on Jan 27, 2023
Development

The Six Ways of Optimizing WebAssembly

While Wasm was originally designed for the browser, it turned out to be useful for embedded programming, plugins, cloud, and edge computing. For all these use cases, performance is tremendously important and is greatly impacted by file size. In this article, we’ll look at six ways to optimize Wasm for performance and file size.

Matt Butcher Radu Matei
on Jan 26, 2023
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Design Pattern Proposal for Autoscaling Stateful Systems

In this article, Rogerio Robetti discusses the challenges in auto-scaling stateful storage systems and proposes an opinionated design solution to automatically scale up (vertical) and scale out (horizontal) from a single node up to several nodes in a cluster with minimum configuration and interference of the operator.

Rogerio Robetti
on Jan 25, 2023
DevOps

Platform Engineering 101: What You Need to Know about This Hot New Trend

Platform engineering is a current hot topic with a rapidly growing tooling ecosystem and landscape. This article reviews many of the important trends in platform engineering.

Luca Galante
on Jan 24, 2023
Culture & Methods

Software Testing, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Trends in 2023

Technology has taken significant leaps within the last few years, introducing advancements that have taken us further into the digital age, impacting the software testing industry, and we're seeing advances in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the neural networks making them possible. These new technologies will change how software is developed and tested like never before.

Adam Sandman
on Jan 23, 2023