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Data Oriented Programming in Java

Project Amber has brought a number of new features to Java in recent years. While each of these features are self-contained, they are also designed to work together. Specifically, records, sealed classes, and pattern matching work together to enable easier data-oriented programming in Java.

Brian Goetz
on Jun 20, 2022
DevOps

Reproducible Development with Devcontainers

Devcontainers provide a reproducable, reusable, simplified developer experience. Get a tour of a devcontainer including how they work, how to use them most efficiently, and how they differ to deployment containers.

Avdi Grimm
on Jun 17, 2022
Culture & Methods

How to Optimize for Fast Flow Using Alignment and Autonomy: the Journey of a Large Bureaucracy

This article describes how NAV (Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration), Norway's largest bureaucracy, has achieved alignment in over 100 autonomous teams. It shows the techniques it uses to align teams with respect to technology: two descriptive techniques - the technology radar and the weekly deep dive, and two normative techniques - the technical direction and internal platforms.

Truls Jørgensen Audun Fauchald Strand
on Jun 17, 2022
Architecture & Design

Minimum Viable Architecture in Practice: Creating a Home Insurance Chatbot

Even a simple application, like the one described in this article, needs a minimum viable product (MVP) and a minimum viable architecture (MVA). This is the second article in a series on MVA.

Kurt Bittner Pierre Pureur
on Jun 16, 2022
Java

Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions with Serverless and Kubernetes Native Java

Moving application workloads to multi- and hybrid cloud platforms causes more carbon dioxide emissions, although better scalability and performance. Serverless and Kubernetes Native Java enable developers to solve the global climate changes by reducing carbon dioxide emissions by natively native features with milliseconds first boot time, tiny resident set size memory and scalability.

Daniel Oh
on Jun 15, 2022
Culture & Methods

Building Effective Developer Tools to Enable an Entire Organization to Move Faster

Building effective tooling can help bring down the time to delivery and increase the number of changes delivered safely. This article demonstrates the tools that Monzo has built to enable developers, and how these tools are being used within the engineering function to deploy hundreds of times per day and beyond the engineering function to run a bank at scale.

Suhail Patel
on Jun 14, 2022
Cloud

How Do We Utilize Chaos Engineering to Become Better Cloud-Native Engineers?

Engineers these days are closer to the product and the customer needs—there is still a long way to go and companies are still struggling with how to get engineers closer to their customers to understand in-depth what their business impact is: what do they solve, what’s their influence on the customer, and what is their impact on the product?

Eran Levy
on Jun 13, 2022
DevOps

Netflix Drive: Building a Cloud-Native Filesystem for Media Assets

In this article, Tejas Chopra discusses Netflix Drive, a generic cloud drive for storing and retrieving media assets - a collection of media files and folders in Netflix. Netflix Drive ties together disparate data (such as: AWS S3, Ceph Storage, Google Cloud Storage, and others) and metadata stores in a cogent form for creating, cataloging and serving these assets to applications and workflows.

Tejas Chopra
on Jun 10, 2022
AI, ML & Data Engineering

What You Should Know before Deploying ML in Production

What should you know before deploying machine learning projects to production? There are four aspects of Machine Learning Operations, or MLOps, that everyone should be aware of first. These can help data scientists and engineers overcome limitations in the machine learning lifecycle and actually see them as opportunities.

Francesca Lazzeri
on Jun 09, 2022
Culture & Methods

How to Accelerate Your Staff+ Career through Open Source Engagement

It takes many factors for an engineer to land a Staff+ position. In this article, you’ll find how contributing and engaging to open-source can help you sharpen critical Staff+ skills like writing communication, while helping increase your visibility and the odds of landing in such a position.

Alex Porcelli
on Jun 09, 2022
Architecture & Design

A Minimum Viable Product Needs a Minimum Viable Architecture

Creating a Minimum Viable Architecture as part of an MVP helps teams to evaluate the technical viability and to provide a stable foundation for the product that can be adapted as the product evolves.

Kurt Bittner Pierre Pureur
on Jun 08, 2022
Culture & Methods

Why You Might Need an Island of Agility

Organizational change doesn’t happen overnight, but that doesn’t mean improving agility is impossible. Regardless of the agile approach, by creating an island of agility, we can set a course to agility while the rest of the organization catches up. The key to success is avoiding an island too small to have an impact, having a plan to grow the island, and adding islands to keep momentum.

John Coleman
on Jun 07, 2022