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Kubernetes Crosses the Chasm, and Other Lessons from the 2021 CNCF Survey
You know I love a good survey, so let’s take a look at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s 2021 annual survey. They asked 2,302 respondents how they use Kubernetes and the more general category of cloud-native tools. The major conclusion of the report is that Kubernetes usage is mainstream, as the sub-title of the report labeled 2021: “The year Kubernetes crossed the chasm.”
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Two Must-Have Tools for Jakarta EE Developers
The wildfly-jar-maven-plugin and the brand new wildfly-datasources-preview-galleon-pack from the WildFly project are worthy of your attention. These tools add on-the-fly generation of an Uber JAR including configuration for containerization and datasources, and make it a pleasure to write applications for Jakarta EE and WildFly.
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InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report - March 2022
The culture and methods trends report for 2022 shows that organizations, teams, and individuals face challenges on multiple fronts. Tackling hybrid work, the impact of the great resignation, wellness, diversity, and inclusion are topics that leaders need to address head-on to build creative and collaborative cultures
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Strategies for Assessing and Prioritizing Security Risks Such as Log4j
The evolving threat landscape requires a comprehensive approach to mitigation. An effective strategy is built on visibility, assessing vulnerabilities in context, effective use of filtering technologies, and monitoring for evidence of intrusion.
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Insights into the Emerging Prevalence of Software Vulnerabilities
The software exploit landscape is constantly evolving and organizations need to be structured to stay ahead of these risks. A solid platform built on software best practices, education, and a good understanding of the threat landscape is critical to a strong defensive posture.
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Data Patterns for the Edge: Data Localization, Privacy Laws, and Performance
With growing competition to get data that power experiences to the end-user closer and closer and the advent of local data privacy laws, let's look at different enterprise data patterns like “synchronous data retrieval”, “subsequent data retrieval” and “prefetch data retrieval” on data center.
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How to Best Use MTT* Metrics to Optimize Your Incident Response
Selecting the correct MTT* metric to improve your incident response is important. If the wrong metric is chosen, the improvements may get lost in the noise of a multivariable equation. This article reviews the various MTT* metrics available and discusses the best scenarios for selecting each one.
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A Standardized, Specification-Driven API Lifecycle
At QCon Plus last November, Kin Lane, Chief Evangelist with Postman, and the Open Technologies Team lead presented on API specifications. API specifications are essential to him and at Postman. So he wanted to share a bit of how they see API specifications impacting how they produce and consume APIs.
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Best Practices for Running Stateful Applications on Kubernetes
Running stateful applications on Kubernetes is not a common use-case but it is possible. This article covers a number of techniques for safely operating stateful applications on Kubernetes including the StatefulSet and DaemonSet controllers, secret management, ConfigMaps, and the effective use of namespacing.
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From Couch to Continuous Documentation: Incorporating Documentation into the Development Workflow
As software teams and projects grow, they suffer from knowledge management pains related to their code - lengthy onboarding, limiting knowledge silos, complex code, and risk of attrition. Creating Walkthrough Documentation while practicing Continuous Documentation can address most of the problems that relate to code-related knowledge sharing and management.
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Designing IoT Solutions with Microsoft Azure
In this article, we will learn how the IoT solutions can work with Microsoft Azure and what services are available to perform different operations across multiple domains. Furthermore, it covers a few case studies to gain hands-on experience on Azure IoT that are common and provide a good starting point for utilizing cloud-based IoT services.
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Building an Effective Digital Platform: Adam Hansrod on the Benefits, Challenges, and Approach
A successful digital platform can improve time to market, increase revenue, reduce operational costs, and improve innovation. An effective platform is one that is differentiating, designed as a product, and is opinionated. InfoQ sat down with Adam Hansrod to discuss how organizations can structure themselves to create effective digital platforms.