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Building an Effective Digital Platform: Adam Hansrod on the Benefits, Challenges, and Approach
A successful digital platform can improve time to market, increase revenue, reduce operational costs, and improve innovation. An effective platform is one that is differentiating, designed as a product, and is opinionated. InfoQ sat down with Adam Hansrod to discuss how organizations can structure themselves to create effective digital platforms.
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An Introduction and Tutorial for Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, JSON-based database delivered as a ‘Platform as a Service’ (PaaS) in Microsoft Azure. Learn about the benefits and disadvantages of Azure Cosmos DB. Find out more about this database and discover how to interact with it using tools, SDKs, and APIs.
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Is Docker Secure Enough? Advice for Configuring Secure Container Images and Runtimes
Ensure that Docker is secure enough by fine-tuning the security approach to meet your use cases. It is important to have an understanding of the differences between the Docker image and the Docker runtime and the security implications and priorities for each. This article covers a number of techniques for ensuring appropriate security for Docker.
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Using Machine Learning for Fast Test Feedback to Developers and Test Suite Optimization
Software testing, especially in large scale projects, is a time intensive process. Test suites may be computationally expensive, compete with each other for available hardware, or simply be so large as to cause considerable delay until their results are available. The article explores optimizing test execution, saving machine resources, and reducing feedback time to developers.
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InfoQ Mobile and IoT Trends Report 2022
This report summarizes the views of the InfoQ editorial team and of several practitioners from the software industry about emerging trends in a number of areas that we collectively label the mobile and IoT space. This is a rather heterogeneous space comprising devices and gadgets from smartphones to smart watches, from IoT appliances to smart glasses, voice-driven assistants, and so on.
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Java InfoQ Trends Report—December 2021
This article provides a summary of how the InfoQ Java editorial team and various Java Champions currently see the adoption of technology and emerging trends within the Java and JVM space in 2021.
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Safe and Fast Deploys at Planet Scale
At QCon Plus, Mathias Schwarz, a software engineer at Uber, presented safe and fast deploys at planet scale. Uber is a big business and has several different products. They are, in most cases, deployed to dozens or hundreds of markets all over the world.
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SaaS DR/BC: If You Think Cloud Data is Forever, Think Again
SaaS is quickly becoming the default tool for how we build and scale businesses. It’s cheaper and faster than ever before. However, this reliance on SaaS comes with the risk of disaster recovery. The “Shared Responsibility Model” doesn’t just govern your relationship with cloud, it actually impacts all of cloud computing. Even for SaaS, users are on the hook for protecting their own data.
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Design Patterns for Serverless Systems
After shortly introducing design patterns at different levels of abstractions, this article will present a few patterns specifically suited to serverless systems, including the Pipes and Filters pattern and show a POC implementation using AWS EventBridge.
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Faster Financial Software Development Using Low Code: Focusing on the Four Key Metrics
Low code/no code can help firms achieve the four key performance metrics described in the State of DevOps Reports and Accelerate, to achieve a faster pace of software development. Financial services especially stand to benefit from the trend of adopting low code/no code to drive digital transformation.
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Reducing Cloud Infrastructure Complexity
Cloud computing adoption has taken the world by storm, and is accelerating unabated. According to Flexera’s annual State of the Cloud Report for 2020, 93% of respondents used multi or hybrid cloud strategies. This article examines different aspects of cloud infrastructure complexity, and approaches to mitigate it.
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Serverless Solution to Offload Polling for Asynchronous Operation Status Using Amazon S3
This article proposes a solution to redirect the polling part to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) - a highly available, scalable, and secured object storage service managed by Amazon Web Services public cloud provider (AWS). It will present a serverless implementation using AWS Lambda functions, but this is not mandatory if you want to use S3.