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Adopting an API Maturity Model to Accelerate Innovation
As your APIs gain more popularity, API sprawl can become an issue. A top-down governance approach is best suited to managing APIs at scale.
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A Simpler Testing Pyramid: Getting the Most out of Your Tests
Overcomplicating your test structure can lead to slow, brittle tests. A focus on test speed as the primary labeling mechanism maximizes your test investment.
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The Silent Platform Revolution: How eBPF Is Fundamentally Transforming Cloud-Native Platforms
There is a silent eBPF revolution reshaping platforms and the cloud-native world in its image, and this is its story.
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Migrate a RMI-Based Legacy Application to WebSocket
Technical debt, especially in enterprise software, is a relevant problem that developers recurrently have to face. This article provides a use case related to removing technical debt in a large enterprise application based on an old fashioned Remote Method Invocation (RMI) protocol, and migrating it toward modern cloud-aware communication technologies.
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Assessing Organizational Culture to Drive SRE Adoption
SRE adoption is greatly influenced by the organizational culture at hand. This article describes how to assess the organizational culture in terms of production operations at the beginning of the SRE transformation. It provides a roadmap of small culture changes accumulating over time, and shows how the leadership facilitated the necessary culture changes
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When DevOps Meets Security to Protect Software
Security can no longer be an afterthought in the software development process. Collaboration between security and development needs to happen early to be effective.
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12 Places to Intervene - Rethink FinOps Using a Systems Thinking Lens
A recent study on FinOps by McKinsey reveals that 69% of organizations prioritize tactical initiatives over higher-impact strategic initiatives. One reason could be that most of those organizations are unaware of those strategic initiatives or unaware of their importance of them. In this article, I will analyze via a System Thinking lens how to prioritize the efforts to address those problems.
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Accelerating the Secure Software Delivery Lifecycle with GitOps
Building secure software can be complicated and time-consuming. By employing a GitOps model, security can be safely separated from development, simplifying the delivery process and increasing velocity.
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Improving CI/CD Pipelines through Observability
CI/CD pipelines are a vital addition to any workflow, but they can be further improved by the selective addition of observability. This article covers what data to monitor, which metrics to track, and how to best visualize the collected data.
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The Great Lambda Migration to Kubernetes Jobs—a Journey in Three Parts
In this article, I’d like to share our journey at Firefly on a great migration from serverless to Kubernetes jobs, lessons learned, and the technologies that helped us do so with minimal pain.
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The Future of Istio: Sidecar-Less and Sidecar with Ambient Mesh
Istio's new ambient mesh allows for a sidecar-less data plane. This article discusses the advantages of that approach and the work that went into making it a reality.
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Migrating to the Cloud: Is It as Intimidating as It Appears?
Being Cloud Native is often considered crucial for business success in the current business landscape. However, the perception of becoming “Cloud Native” as a drastic change for a business might not necessarily be accurate. In this article, we will delve into the concept of Cloud Migration and its effects on the IT support infrastructure of your business.