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Lyft Promotes Best Practices for Collaborative Protocol Buffers Design
Lyft shared its experiences using Protocol Buffers for inter-system integration, primarily focusing on collaborative protocol design for definitions shared between teams and systems. The company promotes approaches that improve knowledge sharing, consistency, and development process quality over raw efficiency optimizations.
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NVIDIA NIM Now Available on Hugging Face with Inference-as-a-Service
Hugging Face has announced the launch of an inference-as-a-service capability powered by NVIDIA NIM. This new service will provide developers easy access to NVIDIA-accelerated inference for popular AI models.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Data API Builder for Azure Cosmos DB
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of the Data API builder for Azure Cosmos DB. The open-source project provides REST and GraphQL endpoints to Azure databases and on-premises stores.
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AWS Cloud Control Terraform Provider Enables Quicker Access to AWS Features
HashiCorp has moved the AWS Cloud Control (AWSCC) provider to general availability. The AWSCC provider is automatically generated based on the Cloud Control API published by AWS, implying that new AWS features can be supported in Terraform upon their release.
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Azure API Center Now Generally Available
Microsoft has announced Azure API Center's general availability (GA), which offers centralized API inventory for easy API discovery, reuse, and governance regardless of API type, lifecycle stage, or deployment location.
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API Access with Amazon Verified Permissions and Amazon Cognito
AWS recently announced that Amazon API Gateway requests can now be authorized with Amazon Verified Permissions. With this feature, HTTP requests containing tokens issued by Amazon Cognito can be used to perform authorization decisions against API resources.
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Gemini Code Assist to Create APIs, Integrations, and Automation Flows in Public Preview
At the Cloud Next Conference, Google unveiled its enterprise-focused AI Code completion and assistance tool, Gemini Code Assist, which is available in public preview for Apigee API Management and Application Integration.
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Production Comes First - an Outside-In Approach to Building Microservices by Martin Thwaites
Martin Thwaites, an observability evangelist, developer, and developer advocate at honeycomb.io, presented on Production Comes First - an Outside-In Approach to Building Microservices. The session was part of the "Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability" track.
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Shadow API Detection for Google Cloud Environments in Preview
During Google Cloud Next, Google announced the preview release of shadow API detection in Advanced API Security, part of the Apigee API Management solution. This managed API Broker service in the Google Cloud allows users to design, secure, deploy, monitor, and analyze APIs.
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Azure API Management Basic V2 and Standard V2 GA: Enhancing Scalability, Security, and Networking
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of new pricing tiers for Azure API Management, Basic v2, and Standard v2. It offers scalability and flexibility to support various development projects, from small to enterprise-level applications.
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QCon London: Efficient Serverless Development
At QCon London, Yan Cui, a serverless advocate at Lumigo, shared patterns for effective local development with AWS serverless technologies. The focus areas were testing approaches, deployment practices, and application environments.
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Decathlon Adopts Backend for Frontend (BFF) Pattern to Empower FE Teams
Decathlon established the Backend For Frontend (BFF) architectural pattern as a company-wide recommendation and provided guidelines for its adoption among engineering teams. The four-part series introduces the pattern and explores its benefits and potential pitfalls. The company also shares available alternatives to using the BFF pattern and reviews architectural considerations.
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Expedia Speeds up Flights Search with Micro Frontends and GraphQL Optimizations
Expedia made flight search faster by up to 52% (page usable time) by applying a range of optimizations to web and mobile applications. To support these improvements, the company improved the observability of its applications. Expedia Flights web application has been migrated to Micro Frontend Architecture (MFA) to allow flexibility, reusability, and better optimization.
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Uber Builds Scalable Chat Using Microservices with GraphQL Subscriptions and Kafka
Uber replaced a legacy architecture built using the WAMP protocol with a new solution that takes advantage of GraphQL subscriptions. The main drivers for creating a new architecture were challenges around reliability, scalability, observability/debugibility, as well as technical debt impeding the team’s ability to maintain the existing solution.
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The Guardian Creates a Newsroom Collaboration Tool Using Serverless, React and GraphQL
The Guardian created Pinboard, a discussion and asset-sharing tool integrated into a variety of content management platforms used by the company. The solution uses a range of technologies, including Typescript for coding the business logic, different serverless services for code execution, API endpoints, and GraphQL server, as well as AWS RDS (PostgreSQL) for storage.