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Elevating Kubernetes Logging for Enhanced Observability

In this article, we will explore the challenges, strategies, and best practices that will help you achieve seamless log management in your Kubernetes environment.

Prithvish Kovelamudi
on Jun 13, 2024
Culture & Methods

Delivering Great Developer Experiences with Platform Engineering

Companies increasingly turn to platform engineering to help scale their development teams and increase developer experience for engineer efficiency. In this virtual panel, we’ll discuss how teams build platforms, set others up for success, work with developers who use their platform, measure their progress, and adapt to new challenges.

Ben Linders Aviran Mordo Jemma Hussein Allen Ana Petkovska Andy Burgin
on Jun 12, 2024
Web Development

Streaming HTML – Asynchronous DOM Updates without JavaScript

Web applications provide the best user experience when pages load quickly and display additional data as it becomes available. Developers typically use JavaScript to load data asynchronously, but this adds complexity when compared to server-side rendering. We review a technique that uses the Shadow DOM with HTTP streaming to load pages quickly and display data asynchronously without JavaScript.

Tyson Gern
on Jun 11, 2024
Java

Optimizing Spring Boot Config Management with ConfigMaps: Environment Variables or Volume Mounts

Spring Boot stands out as a viable framework for its agility and streamlined workflow. Yet, effective configuration management remains a pivotal factor influencing deployment efficiency and ongoing maintenance. ConfigMaps, a feature in Kubernetes, provides configuration strategies for Spring Boot applications.

Naveen Pujaris
on Jun 06, 2024
Cloud

Million Dollar Lines of Code - an Engineering Perspective on Cloud Cost Optimization

A single line of code can shape an organization's financial future. Erik Peterson, the CTO and founder at CloudZero, presented an engineering perspective on cloud cost optimization at QCon San Francisco.

Erik Peterson
on Jun 05, 2024
Architecture & Design

Architectural Trade-Offs: the Art of Minimizing Unhappiness

To architect is to be a frustrated perfectionist; a good architecture minimizes this unhappiness by making trade-offs that can be lived with. The main skill in architecting is making trade-offs. These trade-offs reflect the most important and difficult decisions a team will make about its architecture.

Pierre Pureur Kurt Bittner
on Jun 04, 2024
Architecture & Design

Introducing the RIG Model - the Puzzle of Designing Guaranteed Data-Consistent Microservice Systems

The RIG model formulates three rules for a saga call chain. Using a gamified RIG tool, consisting of three main RIG puzzle pieces, teams can model a microservice system that guarantees eventual data consistency.

Kaj Bromose Lars Lindegaard Mikkelsen
on May 30, 2024
Culture & Methods

Accelerating Technical Decision-Making by Empowering ICs with Engineering Strategy

Carta harnesses the power of a small group of senior engineers called navigators to bridge the gap between global strategy and local decision-making, using a written engineering strategy. Navigators replace a need for consensus and boost velocity by combining technical context, domain context, strategic alignment, and judgment to make engineering decisions quickly.

Dan Fike Shawna Martell
on May 22, 2024
Development

Experimenting with LLMs for Developer Productivity

This article describes an experiment that sought to determine if no-cost LLM-based code generation tools can improve developer productivity. The experiment evaluated several LLMs by generating unit tests for some open-source code and measuring the code coverage as well as the manual rework necessary to make the tests work.

Glenn Engstrand
on May 21, 2024
DevOps

The Three As of Building A+ Platforms: Acceleration, Autonomy, and Accountability

Platform engineering is not just a technical problem to solve nor an end in itself. In this article, I will share key lessons I have learned while building and delivering three platforms over the last two decades from VMware and Stripe to Apollo GraphQL, including where we got stuck, how we unblocked ourselves, and what ultimately led to the right outcomes for our users and the business.

Smruti Patel
on May 20, 2024
Architecture & Design

How Netflix Ensures Highly-Reliable Online Stateful Systems

Building reliable stateful services at scale isn’t a matter of building reliability into the servers, the clients, or the APIs in isolation. By combining smart and meaningful choices for each of these three components, we can build massively scalable, SLO-compliant stateful services at Netflix.

Joseph Lynch
on May 14, 2024
DevOps

Delivering Software Securely: Techniques for Building a Resilient and Secure Code Pipeline

Your CI/CD pipeline can potentially expose sensitive information. Project teams often overlook the importance of securing their pipelines. This article covers approaches and techniques for securing your pipelines.

Satrajit Basu
on May 13, 2024