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The Compounding (Business) Value of Composable Ecosystems
Being “free” and open source doesn’t hinder the value of these projects to businesses and end users; rather it unlocks it. The composability of open source ecosystems allows the innovation and value of the whole ecosystem to compound on itself.
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Developing a Cloud-Native Application on Microsoft Azure Using Open Source Technologies
Cloud native is a development approach that improves building, maintainability, scalability, and deployment of applications. My intention with this article is to explain, in a pragmatic way, how to build, deploy, run, and monitor a simple cloud-native application on Microsoft Azure using open-source technologies.
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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.
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Introduction to Apache Beam Using Java
Apache Beam is a stream processor, helping developers migrate work between different processes to offload work onto runners that leverage external resources.
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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.
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Two Must-Have Tools for Jakarta EE Developers
The wildfly-jar-maven-plugin and the brand new wildfly-datasources-preview-galleon-pack from the WildFly project are worthy of your attention. These tools add on-the-fly generation of an Uber JAR including configuration for containerization and datasources, and make it a pleasure to write applications for Jakarta EE and WildFly.
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Creating and Using HTTP Client SDKs in .NET 6
In this article, the author explains the process behind developing HTTP Client SDKs in .NET 6. Different approaches for real-world scenarios are presented and explained while the author shows you how to develop your own SDK using .NET 6, step-by-step.
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Colors in .NET: an In-Depth Guide
In this article, Peter Huber explains the intricacies of choosing and manipulating colors in .NET, from the basics of understanding how a monitor creates color to generating and manipulating your own color. A must-read for graphic designers and software developers working with .NET.
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Why Change Intelligence is Necessary to Effectively Troubleshoot Modern Applications
Change Intelligence is often a missing component in incident management. Successfully correlating monitoring and observability data to arrive allows engineers to arrive at the root cause more rapidly. Telemetry provides the building blocks that enable change intelligence to identify and map the root cause, based on changes in the system and their broader impact.
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The Next Evolution of the Database Sharding Architecture
In this article, author Juan Pan discusses the data sharding architecture patterns in a distributed database system. She explains how Apache ShardingSphere project solves the data sharding challenges. Also discussed are two practical examples of how to create a distributed database and an encrypted table with DistSQL.
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Getting Started with gRPC and .NET
In this article, the author introduces the core concepts behind gRPC and how it can be used with API development. The basic pros and cons of using gRPC instead of REST are also explained with a scenario analysis. The text is illustrated with a step-by-step tutorial on how to use gRPC to develop streaming services in .NET.
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Lightweight External Business Rules
Complex enterprise applications usually come with varying business logic. Such conditions and subsequent system actions, known as rules, are ever varying and demand involvement of domain specific knowledge more than technology and programming. The rules must reside outside the codebase, authored by people with core domain expertise with minimal tech knowledge.