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Do You Think Like a Lawyer, a Scientist, or an Engineer?
Law, science, and engineering offer three distinct approaches to logical thinking. Each is important in different circumstances, and in practice, we can use all three. How much understanding and control do you have of a situation? Do you simply need to follow the rules? Are you operating in a world of uncertainty and volatility? Or are you building and defining the rules as you go along?
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Application Level Encryption for Software Architects
Challenges of building application-level encryption for software architects.
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Microsoft and the State of Quantum: Q&A with Mariia Mykhailova
Quantum computing can be used to solve large compute problems on small data in areas such as chemistry and materials science. InfoQ interviewed Mariia Mykhailova, a senior software engineer in the Quantum Systems group at Microsoft, to better understand quantum computing, quantum software development, and Microsoft's latest efforts towards this area.
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Why DSLs? A Collection of Anecdotes
Two years ago, I gave a talk on one of the systems discussed here. Together with a colleague, I explained the business case, the technical benefits, why a regular programming language would not work and the all-around positive outcomes of using the DSLs, plus some of the problems we’ve run into.
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What’s New on F#: Q&A With Phillip Carter
Last month, at the 2020 edition of .NET Conf, Microsoft released the latest version of F#. F# is as functional-first, cross-platform, open-source .NET programming language, and it’s developed by Microsoft and several open source partners and contributors. InfoQ interviewed Phillip Carter, program manager at Microsoft, to talk about functional programming, F#, and the new features of F# 5.
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Server-Side Wasm - Q&A with Michael Yuan, Second State CEO
WebAssembly can be used server-side to provide the performance required by use cases such as blockchains and edge AI services. Non-standard extensions may address those use cases today, possibly weakening WebAssembly portability benefits. The gathered experience may however provide important inputs to current and future WebAssembly proposals.
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Building a Self-Service Cloud Services Brokerage at Scale
While not suitable for everyone, cloud brokerages are useful for large enterprises that want to improve their cloud management and operations. The article looks at planning and delivering a brokerage.
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Server-Side Wasm: Today and Tomorrow - Q&A with Connor Hicks
At QCon this year, Connor Hicks presented the opportunities linked to using Web Assembly outside of the browser. Hicks addressed current and future server-side use cases for WebAssembly. He explained how Wasm and its ecosystem allow developers to craft serverless applications by declaratively composing serverless functions written in different languages.
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How to Evolve and Scale Your DevOps Programs and Optimize Success
Processes and workflows become more complex and difficult as DevOps efforts scale. In this article, we’ll take a look at these challenges, and sketch an approach to overcoming them.
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A Cloud-Native Architecture for a Digital Enterprise
This article describes a vendor/technology-neutral reference architecture for a cloud native digital enterprise that can be mapped into different cloud-native platforms (Kubernetes and service mesh), cloud providers (Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and Google GCP), and infrastructure services.
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Beyond the Database, and beyond the Stream Processor: What's the Next Step for Data Management?
Databases have been around forever with the same shape: you make a request to your data and then you receive an answer. Now, stream processors came along with a different approach: data isn’t locked up, it is in motion. Understand how stream processors and databases relate and why there is an emerging new category of databases that focus on data that stays in place as well as data that moves.
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Q&A with Kubernetes SIG Network Chair and Google's Tim Hockin Regarding Kubernetes Networking
InfoQ caught up with chair of Network SIG, principal software engineer at Google, speaker of the upcoming Kubecon + CloudNativeCon 2020 session, and a Kubernetes maintainer even before it was announced, Tim Hockin, about the history of Kubernetes Networking and the roadmap.