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  • Safe and Fast Deploys at Planet Scale

    At QCon Plus, Mathias Schwarz, a software engineer at Uber, presented safe and fast deploys at planet scale. Uber is a big business and has several different products. They are, in most cases, deployed to dozens or hundreds of markets all over the world.

  • Six Features From Java 12 to 17 to Get Excited About!

    Oracle maintains an ambitious release schedule for new versions of Java, having one fixed release every six months. Although frequent, only some versions are considered long-term support, which means they’ll have premium maintenance for three years. In this article, I review some of the language additions between Java 12 and 17, for anyone interested in what’s been happening since Java 11.

  • SaaS DR/BC: If You Think Cloud Data is Forever, Think Again

    SaaS is quickly becoming the default tool for how we build and scale businesses. It’s cheaper and faster than ever before. However, this reliance on SaaS comes with the risk of disaster recovery. The “Shared Responsibility Model” doesn’t just govern your relationship with cloud, it actually impacts all of cloud computing. Even for SaaS, users are on the hook for protecting their own data.

  • Introducing the KivaKit Framework

    In this article, we take a brief tour of the KivaKit open source Java microservices application framework. KivaKit is a collection of mini-frameworks designed to work together. Each mini-framework is described in more detail at https://www.kivakit.org as well as on Jonathan Locke’s blog State of the Art.

  • Faster Financial Software Development Using Low Code: Focusing on the Four Key Metrics

    Low code/no code can help firms achieve the four key performance metrics described in the State of DevOps Reports and Accelerate, to achieve a faster pace of software development. Financial services especially stand to benefit from the trend of adopting low code/no code to drive digital transformation.

  • Reducing Cloud Infrastructure Complexity

    Cloud computing adoption has taken the world by storm, and is accelerating unabated. According to Flexera’s annual State of the Cloud Report for 2020, 93% of respondents used multi or hybrid cloud strategies. This article examines different aspects of cloud infrastructure complexity, and approaches to mitigate it.

  • Failing Fast: the Impact of Bias When Speeding up Application Security

    This article deals with three biases people can have with establishing application security while trying to move fast in building them, attitude which can cost the organization later, showing how to spot the biases, and providing advice on what to do about them.

  • Are Canary Releases an Alternative to Testers?

    Canary releases enable product owners to check how a new feature is getting adopted by users by rolling it out to a small percentage of users and then incrementally rolling it out to a wider audience. Product owners might feel tempted to discontinue or reduce testing upon adopting canary releases, but decisions should be approached cautiously as they can have serious and unintended consequences.

  • Serverless Solution to Offload Polling for Asynchronous Operation Status Using Amazon S3

    This article proposes a solution to redirect the polling part to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) - a highly available, scalable, and secured object storage service managed by Amazon Web Services public cloud provider (AWS). It will present a serverless implementation using AWS Lambda functions, but this is not mandatory if you want to use S3.

  • Application Security Manager: Developer or Security Officer?

    The role of the Application Security Manager (ASM) should be the driving force of the overall code review process. An ASM should know about development processes, information security principles, and have solid technical skills. To get a good ASM you can either use experts from a service provider or grow an in-house professional from developers or security specialists.

  • Engineering Digital Transformation for Continuous Improvement

    Engineering The Digital transformation leverages manufacturing's successful track record of improving productivity and quality and organizational change management principles. It's a training program designed to reduce the barriers to change, enable teams to understand good design patterns, and ultimately allow organizations to create a systematic approach to continuous improvement.

  • Why the Future of Monitoring Is Agentless

    Traditionally, monitoring software has relied heavily on agent-based approaches for extracting telemetry data from systems. Observability requires better telemetry than agents currently provide. OpenTelemetry is driving advances in this area by creating a standard format and APIs to create, transmit, and store telemetry data. This unlocks new opportunities in observability.

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