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Road to Quarkus 3: Improved Dev UI, Steps towards Diataxis Documentation and Performance Bumps
Our previous conversation with the Quarkus team focused on the technical changes to deliver on their mission. More than speed and cloud nativeness, Developer Experience (DX) and the focus on productivity were also an important part of each of the previous major releases. To find out whether version 3.0 will follow this tradition, InfoQ continued the conversation with Andersen.
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Platform Engineering Challenges: Small Teams, Build Versus Buy, and Building the Wrong Thing
The team at Syntasso wrote a series of blog posts outlining twelve challenges that platform teams face. These challenges include having a small platform team support a large organization, failing to understand the needs of the platform users, and struggling with the build-vs-buy argument.
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How Palo Alto Approaches Platform Engineering
Ramesh Nampelly, senior director of cloud infrastructure and platform engineering at Palo Alto, recently wrote about how Palo Alto approaches platform engineering. They built their own internal developer platform (IDP) based on the open-source tool Backstage. Their platform covers infrastructure provisioning, policy management, observability, and cost management.
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State of DevOps Report Finds Platform Teams Lacking Product Management Support
Puppet released the 2023 State of DevOps Report with a focus on Platform Engineering. The report found that organizations with platform engineering teams report increased developer velocity, improvements in system reliability, greater productivity, and better workflow standards. Organizations still need to work on adopting a product mindset with the platform teams.
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Internal Platform Framework Kratix Releases Community Marketplace
Kratix, an open-source framework for building internal platforms, has released a marketplace of community-provided Promises. Within Kratix, Promises represent components curated by the platform team that application teams can request. The Kratix Marketplace is open for submissions from the community.
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Six Essential Tracks at QCon London, March 27-29, 2023: Architecture, FinTech, ML, and More!
QCon London international software conference returns this March 27-29 with its 17th edition. Technical leaders who are driving innovation and change in software will share the latest trends and techniques from their real-world projects to help you solve common challenges. Learn about emerging trends in 2023, how to adopt them, how to avoid pitfalls, and how to embrace the best practices.
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Spotify Releases Enterprise Plugin Bundle for Backstage
Spotify has released five plugins for Backstage as a purchasable bundle. The five plugins cover a variety of use cases including compliance, access control, employee education and satisfaction, and usage metrics. The plugins are a mix of existing Spotify tooling and new development specifically for this bundle.
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Azure Logic Apps Standard Now Supports XSLT and .NET Framework Maps
Microsoft recently announced the preview of support of .NET Framework assemblies in XSLT maps in Logic Apps (Standard), adding more extensibility options.
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All-in-One, Integrated Front-End Toolchain Rome Released V10, Dubbed First Stable Release
The Rome team recently announced Rome v10, dubbed the first stable release since a Rust rewrite. The new release includes a small part of the all-in-one toolchain that Rome envisions, namely the linter and formatter. The Rust-based tools according to first benchmarks provide between one and two orders of magnitude improvement vs. ESLint and Prettier. The tools are available as a VSCode extension.
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How Slack Engineers Addressed Their Most Common Mobile Development Pain Points
In a rather detailed article, Slack engineers Ahmed Eid and Arpita Patel provided an interesting peek into the processes they adopted along the years to improve developer experience in a number of distinct areas and the tools they used to that aim.
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KubeCon NA 2022: How to Build an End-to-End Argo-Based DevOps Platform for Kubernetes
Argo, a CNCF project, helps engineers to use Kubernetes by covering many use cases from GitOps-based continuous deployment to event-based workflow automation. It can also be used to create an end-to-end DevOps platform. Alexander Matyushentsev and Leonardo Luz Almeida spoke at the KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Conference on how to build an Argo-based DevOps platform for Kubernetes.
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API Evolution without Versioning: Brandon Byars at QCon San Francisco 2022
Brandon Byars, North America head of technology at Thoughtworks, spoke at QCon San Francisco 2022. Through his journey of building and maintaining a public-facing API, Mountebank, Brandon shares his learnings and time-tested patterns on evolving APIs without breaking changes.
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Adopting Continuous Deployment: Tom Wanielista at QCon San Francisco 2022
At QCon San Francisco 2022, Tom Wanielista, a staff engineer on infrastructure at Lyft, presented on Adopting Continuous Deployment at his company. The talk is part of one of the editorial tracks called "Architecting Change at Scale."
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Microsoft Introduces a New Way for Faster Building Cloud Apps with Azure Developer CLI
Recently Microsoft introduced the public preview of the Azure Developer CLI (azd) — a new, open-source tool that accelerates the time it takes to get started on Azure. It provides developer-friendly commands that map to essential stages in the developer workflow: code, build, deploy, monitor, and repeat.
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Microsoft Introduces "Dev Box" Service as a Cloud-Based IDE for Developers
During the recent Build conference, Microsoft announced Microsoft Dev Box. This new cloud service provides developers with secure, ready-to-code developer workstations for hybrid teams of any size. With the new service, the company aims to make life easier for developers to quickly access a preconfigured environment with all the tools and resources to write code.