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Cloud-Native Is about Culture, Not Containers

At QCon London last year, Holly Cummins, innovation leader in IBM Corporate Strategy, provided a session titled: Cloud-Native is about Culture, not Containers. In this article, Cummins will discuss the role of culture in cloud-native architecture. Furthermore, she will dive into various topics around cloud-native ranging from its definition to CI/CD and operations.

Holly Cummins
on Mar 17, 2021
Architecture & Design

GraphQL Reference Guide: Building Flexible and Understandable APIs

This online guide aims to answer pertinent questions for software architects and tech leaders, such as: Why would you use GraphQL? Why should you pay attention to GraphQL now? How can GraphQL help with data modelling in the Enterprise?

Daniel Bryant
on Mar 12, 2021
Java

Testing Quarkus Web Applications: Reactive Messaging, Kafka, and Testcontainers

Quarkus is a full-stack, Kubernetes-native Java framework that supports many coding styles, including reactive programming. Writing clean unit/component/integration tests for Quarkus applications when a reactive approach is used is vitally important. Here we demonstrate testing reactive code, reactive messaging, and full integration testing.

Alex Soto
on Mar 11, 2021
Cloud

The Perfect Pair: Digital Twins and Predictive Maintenance

Businesses are moving towards developing a predictive maintenance model using digital twins that mirror their real-life counterparts. In this article, the author looks at digital twins, and provides an example of how to build one.

Karthikeyan Shanmugam
on Mar 10, 2021
Web Development

Pathpida Brings Types to Next.js and Nuxt.js Dynamic Routing with Zero Configuration

Pathpida is a library for TypeScript projects to collect dynamic routes in one place. It is a tedious task to do manually. This helps check the existence of routes in large web apps. Pathpida is optimized for Next.js (React) and Nuxt.js (Vue). Pathpida can be added to existing Next.js and Nuxt.js projects without configuration.

Teppei Kawaguchi
on Mar 08, 2021
Architecture & Design

Serverless Functions for Microservices? Probably Yes, But Stay Flexible to Change

When designing cloud-native systems, it is important to accommodate freedom to change deployment strategy, from FaaS to containers or VMs, for potentially significant savings on cloud bills.

Enrico Piccinin
on Mar 05, 2021
Cloud

Network Edge 5G Computing Technologies Predicted to Make Dramatic Changes to Business Operations

Implementing network edge 5G technologies can offer many advantages, but also presents challenges for your team. In this article, we’ll take a look at promise and risk of network edge 5G models.

Sam Bocetta
on Mar 04, 2021
Java

Testing Quarkus Web Applications: Writing Clean Component Tests

In this article, we will learn how to write clean integration tests for Quarkus applications. We will see how we can write simple and clean tests for the following scenarios: a mail client, security with RBAC, testing using containers, and rest clients.

Alex Soto
on Mar 02, 2021
Cloud

Experts Discuss Top Kubernetes Trends and Production Challenges

Kubernetes growth has led to cultural, technological and operational challenges. InfoQ caught up with Kubernetes experts and implementers who talk about 2-3 top trends and challenges that are facing the platform.

Rags Srinivas Katie Gamanji Brian Gracely William Jimenez Qi Ke Suhail Patel Sunil Shah
on Feb 26, 2021
Architecture & Design

Saga Orchestration for Microservices Using the Outbox Pattern

The outbox pattern, implemented via change data capture, is a proven approach for addressing the concern of data exchange between microservices. The saga pattern, as demonstrated in this article, is useful for data updates that span multiple microservices.

Gunnar Morling
on Feb 25, 2021
Architecture & Design

Software Systems Need Skin in the Game

Consequential decisions need to be taken by the people who pay for the consequences, by the people with skin in the game, and modern software practices need to reinforce this idea. On-call engineering is the quintessential modern engineering practice to create skin in the software development game.

John Rauser
on Feb 19, 2021
Emerging Technologies

Boosting WebAssembly Performance with SIMD and Multi-Threading

Early implementations of WebAssembly's SIMD and multi-threading proposals show that WebAssembly is narrowing the gap with native performance, by using SIMD instructions and multicore CPUs. Significant performance improvements have been observed in compute-intensive tasks (machine-learning, bio-informatics, scientific computing).

Bruno Couriol
on Feb 19, 2021

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