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Distributed Transactions at Scale in Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB supports transactions without sacrificing performance or availability. Akshat Vig explains how DynamoDB introduced TransactGetItems and TransactWriteItems for atomic operations, proving full ACID support in distributed transactions.
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The False Dichotomy of Monolith vs. Microservices
Taking sides in the debate of microservices v. monolith gets in the way of doing the right thing for our customers. Sometimes, we need microservices. Sometimes, we need a monolith. Most of the time we are better off somewhere between these extremes.
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Has Your Architectural Decision Record Lost Its Purpose?
Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) are important vehicles for communicating the architectural decisions a development team makes about a system. Lacking a clear definition of what is architectural, and also lacking anywhere else to record important decisions, they can start to drift from their original purpose and lose focus and effectiveness.
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Simplifying Persistence Integration with Jakarta EE Data
Jakarta Data streamlines Java enterprise data integration. Supporting various databases, it boosts productivity, is open-source, and community-driven. GitHub offers hands-on experience for modernizing enterprise architectures.
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Domain-Driven Cloud: Aligning Your Cloud Architecture to Your Business Model
Domain-Driven Cloud (DDC) is an approach for creating your organization’s cloud architecture based on your business model. Based on Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and the architecture principle of high cohesion and low coupling, this article introduces DDC including the technical and human benefits of aligning your cloud architecture to the bounded contexts in your business model.
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Dealing with Java CVEs: Discovery, Detection, Analysis, and Resolution
This article delves into the importance of integrating Software Composition Analysis (SCA) in CI/CD pipelines for security. It highlights the need for human oversight to accurately assess vulnerability impact and cautions against "alert fatigue." The article also recommends specialized tools for effective vulnerability management.
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Leveraging Eclipse JNoSQL 1.0.0: Quarkus Integration and Building a Pet-Friendly REST API
Eclipse JNoSQL 1.0.0 modernizes NoSQL integration with advanced features, standardized specs (Jakarta NoSQL & Jakarta Data), enhanced queries, schema migration, and Quarkus framework compatibility. It simplifies NoSQL use, boosts performance, scalability, and integrates seamlessly, empowering developers with tools to streamline data management in modern apps.
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Evolving the Federated GraphQL Platform at Netflix
This article describes the journey of the migration towards a Federated GraphQL architecture. Specifically, it shows the GraphQL platform Netflix has built consisting of the Domain Graph Services framework for implementing GraphQL services in Java using Spring Boot and graphql-java, and tools for schema development. It also describes how the ecosystem has evolved at various stages of adoption.
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Monitoring Critical User Journeys in Azure
Flowe explains how they combine metrics from many sources together in Azure to monitor Critical User Journeys and prevent downtime for a critical application.
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The Role of Digital Twins in Unlocking the Cloud's Potential
This article explores the use of the DT concept as a new way to make cloud services more developer-friendly. This new model aligns the development, deployment, and now the runtime aspects of a microservice into a single, cohesive unit, bridging the gap between developers and the cloud and paving the way for a new era of cloud services.
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Enhancing Your "Definition of Done" Can Improve Your Minimum Viable Architecture
A Definition of Done describes the criteria that determines whether a software product is releasable. While normally focused on functional aspects of quality, teams can strengthen the quality and sustainability of their products if they expand their DoD to include architectural considerations.
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InfoQ DevOps and Cloud Trends Report – July 2023
InfoQ editorial staff and friends of InfoQ are discussing the current trends in the domain of cloud and DevOps as part of the process of creating our annual trends report. These reports provide InfoQ readers with a high-level overview of the topics to pay attention to and help the editorial team focus on innovative technologies.