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Making Agile Work in Asynchronous and Hybrid Environments

Making Agile work in the age of hybrid and remote teams requires extra effort to stay aligned and collaborative. This article explores how development teams can stay agile, even when face-to-face collaboration isn’t an option, by using visual collaboration to build context and alignment, and adopting new practices for engaging meetings.

Varun Parmar
on May 04, 2022
Java

Cloud Native Java with the Micronaut Framework

The Micronaut framework provides a solid foundation for building Cloud Native Java microservices. It reduces the use of Java reflection, runtime proxy generation, and dynamic classloading. Tight integration with GraalVM Ahead-of-Time Compilation (AOT) has seen the usage of the Micronaut framework grow. Active compilation-time checking increases type safety and improves developer productivity.

Graeme Rocher
on May 03, 2022
Culture & Methods

Chaos Engineering and Observability with Visual Metaphors

This article introduces a new actor for visualising chaos engineering and observability: metaphors. It provides the conceptual foundations of chaos engineering and observability, presents a state of art of visualisation techniques available in the market and shows how treemaps, gauge charts, geocentric and city metaphors can enrich the spectrum of the visual strategies to observe the chaos.

Yury Niño Roa
on May 02, 2022
Java

Getting Started to Quarkus Reactive Messaging with Apache Kafka

How data is processed/consumed nowadays is different from how it was once practiced. In the past, data was stored in a database and it was batch processed for analytics. Apache Kafka is a distributed event store and stream-processing platform for storing, consuming, and processing data streams in real-time. In this post, we’ll learn how to produce and consume data using Apache Kafka and Quarkus.

Alex Soto
on Apr 29, 2022
Culture & Methods

Design-First Approach to API Development: How to Implement and Why It Works

With the rapid growth of the API industry, developers and technology leaders alike need to know how to create a successful and scalable API program that will drive business value. Developers should consider prioritizing a design-first approach to building APIs which will ensure a positive experience for all stakeholders.

Steve Rodda
on Apr 28, 2022
Architecture & Design

Exploring Architectural Concepts Building a Card Game

One of the things I missed during the pandemic were my friends, the possibility to meet them, discuss with them and, why not, play cards with them. So I decided to implement an app to play Scopone with my friends and, at the same time, test “in the code” some architectural concepts which had been intriguing me for some time.

Enrico Piccinin
on Apr 26, 2022
Culture & Methods

Improving Your Estimation Skills by Playing a Planning Game

Underestimation is still the rule, rather than the exception. One bias especially relevant to the estimation process is the planning fallacy. This article explores the planning fallacy and how we are vulnerable to it. It explains how you can reduce your vulnerability to this fallacy through playing a planning game that has been specifically devised to help mitigate it.

Andrew Brown
on Apr 25, 2022
DevOps

The Role of DevOps in Cloud Security Management

Different areas of cloud security must be examined to strengthen security in the cloud versus security of the cloud. This includes identifying requirements, defining the architecture, analyzing controls, and identifying gaps. Security must be both proactive and reactive, so it needs to be considered in every step of development.

Dotan Nahum
on Apr 22, 2022
Culture & Methods

Dynamic Value Stream Mapping to Help Increase Developer Productivity

We explore the value stream optimization technique that has proven useful across a number of industries yet is still emerging in the software field. Explore a number of dynamic value stream map practical cases, and see the industry differences in value stream usage between Lean and Agile.

Pavel Azaletskiy
on Apr 21, 2022
Architecture & Design

Designing Secure Tenant Isolation in Python for Serverless Apps

Software as a Service (SaaS) has become a very common way to deliver software today. While providing the benefits of easy access to users without the overhead of having to manage the operations themselves, this flips the paradigm and places the responsibility on software providers for maintaining ironclad SLAs, as well as all of the security and data privacy requirements.

Avichay Attlan
on Apr 20, 2022
Java

Native Java in the Real World

Microservices on Kubernetes are the native Java sweet spot: they have the most significant framework and Java runtime overhead. Native Java needs more effort to build, debug, test, deploy & profile. The application framework should fully support native Java in production. Native Java adoption can be incremental. But a native Java application only works if all its libraries support native Java.

KimJohn Quinn Rakesh Raja Jason Moehlman
on Apr 19, 2022
Culture & Methods

Sustaining Fast Flow with Socio-Technical Thinking

To sustain a fast flow of changes over long periods of time, organizations address both the social and technical, socio-technical, aspects of reducing complexity. Examples are incentivising good technical practices to keep code maintainable, architecting systems to minimize dependencies and maximize team motivation, and leveraging platforms to preclude whole categories of infrastructure blockers.

Nick Tune
on Apr 18, 2022