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Build a MySQL Spring Boot App Running on WildFly on an Azure VM
How to build a demo site that runs on the WildFly application platform and connects to a MySQL database in the cloud, on Microsoft Azure. The premise seems simple, but the implementation can be tricky, and there is limited documentation on how to set something like this up.
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The Argument for WCF Hosting in .NET Core
Should WCF Hosting be Supported in .NET Core? To a lot of people this seems like a strange question; the answer is obviously... yes? no? Well actually it is quite contentious with people on both sides of the issue fiercely arguing for their position. We’ll try to unpack the debate and explain the arguments on both sides.
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How to Choose a Stream Processor for Your App
Choosing a stream processor for your app can be challenging with many options to choose from. The best choice depends on individual use cases. In this article, the authors discuss a stream processor reference architecture, key features required by most streaming applications and optional features that can be selected based on specific use cases.
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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.
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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.
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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: application networking, reliability, and observability and (the focus of this article) security. With Istio, communication between services in the mesh is secure and encrypted by default. Istio can also help with "origin" or "end-user" JWT identity token verification.
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The Ethics of Security
Like security, tech ethics is about trying to prevent our systems from hurting users or anyone else.
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Envoy Service Mesh Case Study: Mitigating Cascading Failure at Lyft
Over the past four years, Lyft has transitioned from a monolithic architecture to hundreds of microservices. As the number of microservices grew, so did the number of outages due to cascading failure or accidental internal denial of service. Today, these failure scenarios are largely a solved problem within the Lyft infrastructure due to the use of the Envoy Proxy as a service mesh.
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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?
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Evaluating Hyperledger Composer
Hyperledger Composer is a new open source project which makes it easy for developers to write chaincode for Hyperledger Fabric and the decentralized applications (DApps) that can call them. This article summarizes a technical evaluation of the performance characteristics of using Composer in a test application.
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Agile: Reflective Practice and Application
We explore how successful software development is based on the following three intertwining thought processes: Systems Thinking, Community Context and Reflective Practices. A majority of unsuccessful transformations result from a failure by members of the team to grasp that they are contributing to a larger system, or an unwillingness to learn how to improve, or that software is a team sport.