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Virtual Panel: Microservices Communication and Governance Using Service Mesh
Service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for handling service-to-service communication and offers a platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices. InfoQ spoke with subject matter experts in the service mesh area to learn more about why service mesh frameworks have become critical components of cloud native architectures.
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Polyglot Persistence Powering Microservices
At Netflix, the cloud database engineering team is responsible for providing several flavors of data persistence as a service to microservice development teams. Roopa Tangirala explained how her team has created self-service tools that help developers easily implement the appropriate data store for each project's needs.
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Mastering Blockchain: Book Review and Author Q&A
Blockchain was invented in 2008 for Bitcoin to solve the main issue with digital currencies, i.e., the possibility that a token be spent more than once by duplicating it. Packt Publishing Mastering Blockchain by Imran Bashir aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to Blockchain, a technology that is claimed to be able to revolutionise our society and impact every industry.
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Book Review: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
David Gerard's 2017 book, "Attack of the 50ft Blockchain" is an in-depth look at the cryptocurrency space. The book takes a straightforwardly skeptical angle, and is explicitly intended as a non-technical overview that frames Bitcoin in purely political and economic terms.
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A Comparison between Rust and Erlang
This article will focus on a comparison between Erlang and Rust, detailing their similarities and differences. It may be interesting to both Erlang developers looking into Rust and Rust developers looking into Erlang. A final section will detail more about each of the language capabilities and shortcomings and argue for the possibility of leveraging both languages' strengths in the same project.
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Serverless Security: What's Left to Protect?
This article aims to provide a broad understanding of security in the Serverless world. We'll consider the ways in which Serverless improves security, the areas where it changes security, and the security concerns it hurts.
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Designing, Implementing, and Using Reactive APIs
Reactive programming is a hot topic in the Java world. Whether you want to leverage non-blocking APIs, manage the latency introduced by the explosion of microservices, or simply utilize computing resources more efficiently, it's time to look at reactive as a viable programming model. In this article, we offer some opinions on how you should design, implement and use reactive APIs.
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Virtual Panel: Succeeding with Event Sourcing
Why should you use event sourcing as a data storage and retrieval technique? What are the architectural implications? When should you use platforms versus frameworks to satisfy requirements? InfoQ interviewed two experts to learn more.
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Building a CI System with Java 9 Modules and Vert.x Microservices
Java 9 and Vert.x microservices are compatible for building applications, as showcased by this example application that implements a minimal, but working CI system.
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Migrating Batch ETL to Stream Processing: A Netflix Case Study with Kafka and Flink
At QCon New York, Shriya Arora presented “Personalising Netflix with Streaming Datasets” and discussed the trials and tribulations of a recent migration of a Netflix data processing job from the traditional approach of batch-style ETL to stream processing using Apache Flink.
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The Kubernetes Effect
To successfully design for, implement, and run applications on Kubernetes requires knowledge of primitives, and awareness of design principles and practices. This article provides an overview of Kubernetes and guidance for how to best use it.
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Exploring the Fundamentals of Stream Processing with the Dataflow Model and Apache Beam
At QCon San Francisco 2016, Frances Perry and Tyler Akidau presented “Fundamentals of Stream Processing with Apache Beam”, and discussed Google's Dataflow model and associated implementation of Apache Beam.