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Culture & Methods Culture & Methods Follow 672 Followers
Microservices From a Startup Perspective
When starting a journey to microservices, knowing what to consider might be overwhelming. No golden rule that is easily applicable exists. Every journey is different, since every organization is facing different circumstances. In this article I am sharing some lessons learned and challenges from a startup perspective, and what I would do differently the next time introducing microservices.
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Deep Dive Into JUnit 5 Extension Model
JUnit 5 is a modular and extensible testing framework with support for Java 8 and higher. The Jupiter extension model can be used to add custom features. This is explained by building out a simple set of extensions that support the BDD approach to testing with full code examples.
How the Boston Children’s Hospital Is Innovating on Top of an Open Cloud
Hybrid and open clouds are rising as an alternative to giants like AWS. This article explains how Boston Children’s Hospital uses this technology for more rapid diagnosis and data processing.
Increasing Security with a Service Mesh: Christian Posta Explores the Capabilities of Istio
Istio attempts to solve some particularly difficult challenges when running applications in a cloud platform. This article explores the security features of Istio: mTLS and authorization.
The Ethics of Security
Like security, tech ethics is about trying to prevent our systems from hurting users or anyone else.
Envoy Service Mesh Case Study: Mitigating Cascading Failure at Lyft
As the number of microservices grew at Lyft, so did the number of outages due to cascading failure. Today, these failure scenarios are largely a solved problem due to the use of the Envoy Proxy.
The Cloud Native QA
The advent and widespread adoption of the cloud ecosystem presents a new challenge to the modern-day QA. What does it mean to be QA in a Cloud Native software business? 2
Evaluating Hyperledger Composer
Hyperledger Composer makes it easy for developers to write chaincode for Hyperledger Fabric. This article summarizes a technical evaluation of the performance characteristics when using Composer. 7
Agile: Reflective Practice and Application
This article explores how successful software development is based on the following three intertwining thought processes: Systems Thinking, Community Context and Reflective Practices.
Q&A on the Book "Microservices, a Practical Guide, Principles, Concepts, and Recipes"
The book “Microservices, a Practical Guide” by Eberhard Wolff explores technology stacks for microservices-based architectures targeting the implementation decisions at the overall system level.
PSD2: Blessing or Curse for Banks?
PSD2 will force all European banks to offer three APIs free of charges to all 3rd parties approved by the ECB. For a successful transformation into a digital company, banks must evolve.
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon New York 2018
This year, at the seventh annual QCon New York, our second year in Time Square, we had in total 143 speakers across the 117 sessions, workshops, AMAs, Open Spaces and mini-workshops.
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