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Business Systems Integration is about to Get a Whole Lot Easier

A new breed of integration software is arising that syncs business data into a simplified data hub and then syncs that data to the destination system. The benefit of this integration pattern is that it reduces the number of manual transformations required (often to zero) and makes it easier to write manual transformations when you have to.

Doug Hudgeon
on Aug 24, 2022
Culture & Methods

Employing Team-Based Agile Coaching to Establish SRE in an Organization

Establishing SRE in a software delivery organization typically requires a socio-technical transformation. Operations teams need to learn how to provide a scalable SRE infrastructure to enable development teams to run their services efficiently. This paper presents how agile coaching has been employed to run an SRE transformation in a 25-teams strong product delivery organization.

Philipp Gündisch Vladyslav Ukis
on Aug 23, 2022
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Streaming-First Infrastructure for Real-Time Machine Learning

This article covers the benefits of streaming-first infrastructure for two scenarios of real-time ML: online prediction, where a model can receive a request and make predictions as soon as the request arrives, and continual learning, when machine learning models are capable of continually adapting to change in data distributions in production.

Chip Huyen
on Aug 22, 2022
Architecture & Design

Chipping Away at the Monolith: Applying MVPs and MVAs to Legacy Applications

Legacy applications actually benefit the most from concepts like a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and its related Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA). Once you realize that every release is an experiment in value in which the release either improves the value that customers experience or doesn’t, you realize that every release, even one of a legacy application, can be thought of in terms of an MVP.

Kurt Bittner Pierre Pureur
on Aug 19, 2022
Culture & Methods

The Battle for Talent Can Be Won with Employee Recognition

In response to retaining high performers during an impending recession, employers need to prioritize giving employees recognition to increase retention and engagement. This article explores the power of recognition, what makes recognition meaningful, and how companies can create a culture of recognition in their workplace.

David Bator
on Aug 18, 2022
Cloud

Cloud Native Network Functions Are Here

Compute elasticity, for instance, is reasonably allocated with virtual machines, containers, and orchestrators and managed with CI/CD pipelines. Network elasticity seems to be lacking in implementation. In this article, we show that cloud native network functions are an attempt to bring network applications into the cloud native world.

W. Watson
on Aug 18, 2022
Architecture & Design

Creating a Secure Distributed Database Cluster Leveraging Your Existing Database Management System

The emergence of Big Data and data lakes doesn't necessarily mean the disappearance of the trusted relational database. The two can coexist, relational databases just need to adjust. For the transition we propose Database Plus, a new technology & concept applicable to any database, that answers these challenges and eliminates switching costs and vendor lock-in.

Trista Pan
on Aug 17, 2022
Culture & Methods

The IT Leader’s Guide to Helping Developers Avoid Burnout

The developer workforce has become increasingly distributed over the past two-plus years, contributing to new levels of stress. There are things IT can help leaders do to prepare for the future of software development, yet still ensure their teams have the tools and resources they need to keep individuals engaged, motivated, and fulfilled by their work.

Rick Spencer
on Aug 16, 2022
Java

Debezium and Quarkus: Change Data Capture Patterns to Avoid Dual-Writes Problems

It’s common in microservices to write data in two places, a database and then send the content to another microservice. One approach to tackle this problem is dual writes, but you may lose data because of concurrent writes. Debezium is an open-source project for change data capture using the log scanner approach to avoid dual writes and communicate persisted data correctly between services.

Alex Soto
on Aug 15, 2022
Architecture & Design

Data Manipulation with Functional Programming and Queries in Ballerina

Ballerina has been designed as a data-oriented programming language and supports a functional programming coding style. The Ballerina query language is similar to SQL in the sense that a query expression is made up of clauses. The Ballerina “Table” data structure can be more effective than maps in representing indexed data collections.

Yehonathan Sharvit
on Aug 11, 2022
Culture & Methods

Rules of Thumb & Traps When Approaching Tech Stack Decisions

At the MVP stage - do only the stuff you would do in a hackathon. Scalability and processes will become important once we have predictable revenue streams. Where are you generating your unique value proposition? Outsource all aspects of the tech solution which are not in a relationship with your competitive advantage. Follow a general tech directive but balance it with the team's autonomy.

Stefan Miteski
on Aug 10, 2022
DevOps

Infrastructure as a Code—Why Drift Management Is Not Enough

The reality is that configuration drift will remain unavoidable for the foreseeable future. An EaaS solution, coupled with an IaC platform and good change management policies will help you prevent drift and shorten your development cycles.

Roxana Ciobanu
on Aug 09, 2022