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Reducing the Friction in Multi-Cloud Deployments, Pulumi Launches 1.0 Platform
In a recent blog post, Pulumi has announced the release of Pulumi 1.0, an Infrastructure as Code platform that allows organizations to reduce the challenges associated with managing multiple cloud deployments. Their solution includes using consistent tooling based on popular programming languages like TypeScript, JavaScript, Python and Go.
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Sense and Nonsense in Event Thinking and Microservices
Modularity in the systems we are building is very important, but there are anti-modularity forces that we must deal with to be able to achieve this modularity. In a presentation at the recent Event-driven Microservices Conference, held by AxonIQ, Allard Buijze shared his thoughts and experience building systems based on DDD, CQRS, microservices and event sourcing.
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React-Based Site Generator Gatsby Raises $15M
Gatsby, the open-source React-based site generator framework, has raised $15M in a Series A funding round, led by CRV. Gatsby plans to grow its team, invest over $3 million yearly in open-source software (including Gatsby itself), and develop a cloud services offering.
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Running WASI in the Browser and Node.js with Wasmer-JS
Aaron Turner, developer relations at Wasmer, announced that the recently released Wasmer-JS allows developers to run WASI modules in both Node and the browser. Turner provides wasm-terminal as an example of a terminal application built with Wasmer-JS, which allows to fetch and run WASI modules.
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Becoming Outcome Focused: Q&A with Jeff Patton
We need to become focused on outcomes and adapt our way of thinking and our processes to continuously release small changes to our products and services, argued Jeff Patton in the closing keynote at the Agile Greece Summit 2019.
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HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure: The First Fully Managed Consul Offering
During the HashiConf keynote, HashiCorp announced HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure. Consequently, customers can now provision HCS natively through the Azure Marketplace directly into their Azure subscription, while HashiCorp takes care of maintenance and operations of the service.
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Microsoft Releases C# 8.0
Last week Microsoft announced the official availability of C# 8.0 as part of the .NET Core 3.0 release, simultaneously at .NET Conf 2019 and on their development blog. The new language features include nullable reference types, asynchronous streams, default interface members, and new code patterns. All new features are supported in Visual Studio 2019.
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Day Two Problems When Using CQRS and Event Sourcing
There are a lot of good reasons for building a CQRS and event-sourcing based system, but there are also problems that appear only after an application is in production. In a presentation at the recent Event-driven Microservices Conference held by AxonIQ, Joris Kuipers shared his experience running and evolving CQRS and event sourced applications in production.
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Helm as a Package Manager for Kubernetes: Q&A with Helm Founder Matt Butcher
InfoQ caught up with Matt Butcher, the organizer for the Helm Summit in Amsterdam, and explored Helm's growth and its roadmap. He talked about the history of Helm, how its design was influenced by other package managers, how it's helping the Kubernetes community, its tremendous growth, and some of the security challenges being resolved.
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Amazon Updates S3 Service with Same-Region Replication
Recently, Amazon introduced a new option to its cloud storage service S3 - Same Region Replication (SRR). With this new option in S3, customers can now create a replica of their uploaded data in the same region yet in a different S3 bucket.
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Extend Azure PaaS Resources to Your Network Using Azure Private Link
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced a new preview service, called Azure Private Link, which provides organizations the ability to connect to Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings, or their own services, using a private IP address. Azure Private Link connections travel over Microsoft’s backbone network and avoid exposure from the public internet.
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Vue 2 vs. Vue 3: James Stewart at Vue Glasgow Meetup
James Stewart recently compared the incoming Vue 3 function-based Composition API to the current Vue 2.x class-based Options API. In a presentation held at the second Vue.js Glasgow meetup event, Stewart analyzed the code from the same application written with both APIs, and concluded that the Vue 3 API leads to better code structuring, and makes the isolation and composition of logic easier.
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Microsoft .NET Conf 2019: .NET Core 3.0, C# 8.0, F# 4.7, and Machine Learning
At the 2019 edition of .NET Conf, streamed online earlier this week, Microsoft announced several new features for the .NET ecosystem. .NET Core, ASP.NET, and EF Core 3.0 were released, together with C# 8.0 and F# 4.7. The new releases have a considerable impact on how Windows Desktop, Web, and Mobile applications are developed. New features and tools for Visual Studio 2019 were also showcased.
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Storybook 5.2 Improves Design System Documentation
The recent Storybook 5.2 release delivers a new approach for generating design system documentation. Storybook 5.2 streamlines component documentation to make best practice documentation easier for anyone creating Storybook projects.
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Design and Implementation of a DDD-Based Modular Monolith
Kamil Grzybek recently published a project where he has designed, implemented, and in detail described a monolithic application with a Domain-Driven Design (DDD) approach. His goal is to show how a monolithic application can be designed and implemented in a modular way. He also discusses some architectural considerations and design patterns he has found useful in the application.