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Technology's Carbon Impact and What You Can Do about It

Achieving a balance between growth and efficiency can be a formidable task. However, software engineers can play a critical role at the nexus of both. This article discusses open source software tools and methodologies for balancing carbon with growth across IT organizations, and provides actionable approaches to greening IT organizations.

Marco Valtas Lisa McNally
on Mar 16, 2023
Cloud

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.

Liav Yona
on Mar 15, 2023 1
Cloud

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.

Pradeep Kumar Dhoopati
on Mar 10, 2023 1
Cloud

What Are Cloud-Bound Applications?

The increasing adoption of application-first cloud services is causing applications to blend with the cloud services at levels much deeper than before. The runtime boundaries between the application and the cloud are shifting from virtual machines to containers and functions.

Bilgin Ibryam
on Mar 09, 2023
Cloud

Writing Cloud Native Network Functions (CNFs): One Concern per Container

This article discusses the “one concern, one process” design for containers and Cloud native network functions (CNFs).

W. Watson
on Mar 01, 2023
Cloud

The Future of Service Mesh is Networking

On this journey, we will discover that, to quote David Mooter, “The future of service mesh is as a networking feature, not a product category, as far out of sight and mind from developers as possible—and that is a good thing.”

Bill Mulligan
on Feb 24, 2023
Cloud

Environment-as-a-Service (EaaS) as a Technique to Raise Productivity in Teams

In essence, EaaS addresses developer productivity issues by providing settings that make it simple for developers to test and mimic real-world uses of their system. This article discusses the benefits of EaaS.

Oghenevwede Emeni
on Feb 17, 2023
Development

PHP 8 - Arrays, Variables, Operators, Exception Handling and More

In this article, we discuss new features brought by PHP 8 related to arrays, variables, operators, and exception handling. We also discussed some trait-, class-, and function-related features. This article concludes the PHP 8 article series.

Deepak Vohra
on Feb 13, 2023
Cloud

Containers and Serverless—Rivals or Cohorts?

This article will try to decode these technologies and explore how developers should consider containers or serverless functions within their tech stack. For example, if your application has a longer startup time, then a container would suit the need better. Highly efficient stateless functions that need to scale up and down massively would benefit from running serverless functions.

Omer Hamerman
on Feb 09, 2023
Cloud

Lambda Throttling - How to Avoid It?

This article aims to explain best practices if you have throttled your application and services and suggestions for how to handle these cases. We performed an in-house experiment at Jit (a SaaS-based DevSecOps platform) built on serverless to learn how our application behaves.

Shlomi Kushchi
on Feb 02, 2023
Development

Article Series: PHP 8.x

PHP continues to be one of the most widely used scripting languages on the web with 77.3% of all the websites whose server-side programming language is known using it according to w3tech. PHP 8 brings many new features and other improvements, which we shall explore in this article series.

Deepak Vohra
on Jan 30, 2023
Development

The Six Ways of Optimizing WebAssembly

While Wasm was originally designed for the browser, it turned out to be useful for embedded programming, plugins, cloud, and edge computing. For all these use cases, performance is tremendously important and is greatly impacted by file size. In this article, we’ll look at six ways to optimize Wasm for performance and file size.

Matt Butcher Radu Matei
on Jan 26, 2023