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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.

Dennis Gesker
on Apr 01, 2022
Architecture & Design

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.

Kin Lane
on Mar 15, 2022
Development

Ballerina for Full-Stack Developers: a Guide to Creating Backend APIs

This article explores Ballerina’s intuitive syntax for writing REST APIs. We also discuss authentication, authorization, OpenAPI tool, observability, SQL/NoSQL client libraries, and key language features. At the end of this article, you will have a good understanding of why Ballerina is a prominent candidate for writing your next backend API.

Imesha Sudasingha
on Mar 14, 2022
Java

Level up Your Java Performance with TornadoVM

GPUs, FPGAs, or multi-core CPUs are present in almost every computing system today. These devices help increase performance and run more efficient workloads, but most frameworks are built on C or C++ only. At QCon Plus, Juan Fumero spoke about TornadoVM, a high-performance computing platform for the JVM, allowing to offload, at runtime, Java code to run on heterogeneous hardware accelerators.

Juan Fumero
on Mar 10, 2022
DevOps

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.

Tom Ahi Dror Eyal Ittah
on Mar 04, 2022
DevOps

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.

Adam Hansrod Matt Campbell
on Mar 01, 2022
Mobile

InfoQ Mobile and IoT Trends Report 2022

This report summarizes the views of the InfoQ editorial team and of several practitioners from the software industry about emerging trends in a number of areas that we collectively label the mobile and IoT space. This is a rather heterogeneous space comprising devices and gadgets from smartphones to smart watches, from IoT appliances to smart glasses, voice-driven assistants, and so on.

Sergio De Simone Abhijith Krishnappa Tridib Bolar
on Feb 21, 2022
Culture & Methods

Talking Like a Suit - Communicating the Importance of Engineering Work in Business Terms

This article explores how to construct engineering work as a story, including clearly presenting a problem, offering a solution, and showing the business a path to success that solves their problem and avoids failure. By presenting your case in this way, you significantly increase your chances of getting these engineering problems addressed, while also becoming a better partner for the business.

David Van Couvering
on Feb 08, 2022
.NET

Creating and Using HTTP Client SDKs in .NET 6

In this article, the author explains the process behind developing HTTP Client SDKs in .NET 6. Different approaches for real-world scenarios are presented and explained while the author shows you how to develop your own SDK using .NET 6, step-by-step.

Oleksii Nikiforov
on Feb 07, 2022
Culture & Methods

Managing Technical Debt in a Microservice Architecture

At QCon Plus, Glenn Engstrand described how Optum Digital engineering devised a method for reliably and predictably paying down tech debt for hundreds of microservices, forming relevant communities and identifying high-risk areas. The communities' collective decisions can be compiled into an actionable roadmap and presented to product managers in a systemic and non-confrontational way.

Glenn Engstrand
on Feb 02, 2022
Development

How to Create a Network Proxy Using Stream Processor Pipy

In this article we are going to introduce Pipy, an open-source cloud-native network stream processor. After describing its modular design, we will see how to rapidly build a high-performance network proxy to serve our specific needs. Pipy has been battle-tested and is already in use by multiple commercial clients.

Ali Naqvi
on Jan 31, 2022
Culture & Methods

How the Financial Times Approaches Engineering Enablement

Companies need teams working on infrastructure, tooling and platforms; the way they work has to change so that they do not become a bottleneck. These teams need to be about enabling product teams to deliver business value. Investment in this area pays off as it speeds up many other teams and allows product-team engineers to focus on solving business problems that provide value to the organisation.

Sarah Wells
on Jan 27, 2022

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