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Accessing .NET gRPC Endpoints from Anywhere via JSON Transcoding

JSON transcoding is a feature that has been added to gRPC in .NET 7. It allows gRPC endpoints to be accessible via a REST API, and it's much easier to set up than any alternative technology available at the time of writing, such as gRPC-Gateway and gRPC-Web.

Fiodar Sazanavets
on Jan 30, 2023
DevOps

Platform Engineering 101: What You Need to Know about This Hot New Trend

Platform engineering is a current hot topic with a rapidly growing tooling ecosystem and landscape. This article reviews many of the important trends in platform engineering.

Luca Galante
on Jan 24, 2023 1
DevOps

Data Protection Methods for Federal Organizations and beyond

The Federal Data Strategy describes a plan to “accelerate the use of data to deliver on mission, serve the public, and steward resources while protecting security, privacy, and confidentiality." This article covers what it is and how it can be applied to any organization.

Alex Tray
on Jan 18, 2023
Development

InfoQ Software Trends Report: Major Trends in 2022 and What to Watch for in 2023

2022 was another year of significant technological innovations and trends in the software industry and communities. The InfoQ podcast co-hosts met last month to discuss the major trends from 2022, and what to watch for in 2023. This article is a summary of the 2022 software trends podcast.

Daniel Bryant Wesley Reisz Thomas Betts Shane Hastie Srini Penchikala
on Jan 13, 2023
DevOps

Lessons Learned from Enterprise Usage of GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions is an effective CI tool. However, integrating it into enterprise organizations can be challenging. This article looks at best practices for GitHub Actions in the enterprise.

Greg Jacobs
on Jan 10, 2023
DevOps

Blue-Green Deployment from the Trenches

Introducing blue-green deployments is often a beneficial improvement. However, with some architectures, it can be challenging to make the changes without impeding deployments. This article covers the challenges and lessons learned in implementing blue-green deployments in the real-world.

Sarah Saunders
on Jan 03, 2023 2
Java

Securing a Kafka Cluster in Kubernetes Using Strimzi

Deploying an Apache Kafka cluster to Kubernetes is easy if you use Strimzi, but that’s only the first step; you need to secure the communication between Kafka and the consumers and producers, provide RBAC to access topics, spread the secrets correctly to Kafka Connect components and all using a Kubernetes GitOps way.

Alex Soto
on Dec 30, 2022
DevOps

The Importance of Pipeline Quality Gates and How to Implement Them

A quality gate is an enforced measure built into your pipeline that the software needs to meet before it can proceed. This article covers how to get the maximum benefit from quality gates. Making good use of quality gates not only can improve the quality of your software, but it can also improve your delivery speed.

Craig Risi
on Dec 27, 2022
DevOps

An Ode to Unit Tests: in Defense of the Testing Pyramid

The switch to the testing diamond approach has not effectively addressed issues caused by the testing pyramid. Instead, the focus should be on using unit tests correctly within a testable architecture.

Guilherme Ferreira
on Dec 19, 2022 2
Java

Java InfoQ Trends Report - December 2022

This report provides a summary of how the InfoQ Java editorial team and several Java Champions currently see the adoption of technology and emerging trends within the Java and JVM space in 2022. We focus on Java the language, as well as related languages like Kotlin and Scala, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and Java-based frameworks and utilities.

Michael Redlich Ben Evans Johan Janssen Dalia Abo Sheasha Billy Korando Otavio Santana
on Dec 16, 2022
DevOps

Platform Engineering Needs a Prescriptive Roadmap: a Conversation with Nigel Kersten

Nigel Kersten feels that it is time for a prescriptive roadmap for how to adopt and implement platform engineering. A lack of definition for DevOps enabled early adopters but didn't allow late-majority enterprises to be successful in their adoption of DevOps. The platform engineering community is in danger of repeating this mistake.

Nigel Kersten Matt Campbell
on Dec 14, 2022 1
Cloud

Colliding Communities, Cloud Native, and Telecommunications Standards

What happens when an ecosystem driven from the bottom up collides with a community characterized by top-down development? The 5g broadband cellular network standard by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) standard by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), and the Service Function Chain RFC (request for comments) are examples.

W. Watson
on Dec 07, 2022