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Apple Publicly Rejects Backdoored iPhone OS
Apple has publicly berated the US Government for overreach of their duties in the case of providing assistance in unlocking a suspect's mobile phone, in a trial that is polarising the technology nation. InfoQ summarises the situation and what the possible outcomes might be.
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Using Domain-Driven Design When Creating Microservices
Microservices and Domain-Driven Design (DDD) are not only about Bounded contexts, although a fundamental tool for defining granularity of microservices there are other important concepts as well. Correspondingly DDD is just not about entities and repositories, Michael Plöd claimed in his presentation at the recent microXchg conference in Berlin showing how DDD can be used creating microservices.
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Microsoft Azure IoT Hub Reaches General Availability
Microsoft has recently announced its Azure IoT Hub offering has reached general availability (GA). This is a follow-up release to the public preview that Microsoft provided in October of last year. InfoQ previously covered the public preview announcement as part of the Azure Con event coverage.
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“It’s Not Just Microservices”: Fred George Discusses Technology, Process and Organisation Inhibitors
At the microXchg 2016 conference, Fred George presented “It’s Not Just Microservices”, and argued that microservices can enable an organisation to ‘go faster’ and rapidly deliver business value. However, the implementation of microservices alone will not lead to success, and inhibitors to increasing business agility within the context of technology, process and the organisation must be removed.
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Java EE and Microservices in 2016?
At the end of 2015 Steve Millidge from C2B2 and a co-founder of Payara predicted that 2016 would be the year of Java EE microservices. Many efforts would tend to agree, including WildFly, TomEE and the KumuluzEE framework. However, other developers believe that there are fundamental problems with Java EE which make it a poor choice for microservices.
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From Monolith to Microservices, Zalando's Journey
Last week Microxchg 2016, one of the leading conferences about microservices was held in Berlin, Germany. Rodrigue Schaefer from Zalando gave a speech about their transition from a monolithic application to microservices. This article explores in detail the findings and challenges faced by a large organization with over 1000 engineers migrating to microservices.
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Microsoft Announces ASP.NET Core Schedule Changes and Renaming Clarifications
Microsoft made some clarifications on ASP.NET a few weeks ago. Jeffrey T. Fritz, program manager at Microsoft, explains the recent changes in the schedule. He also gives some details related to the renaming from ASP.NET 5 to ASP.NET Core 1.0.
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Microxchg Conference Day 2 Recap
The second day of the Microxchg conference took place last Friday with more interesting talks coming up. Stefan Tilkov analyzed from his consulting experience how different is architecture in the real world, with microservices blending in a disconnected mess with potentially several different frontend monoliths. Adrian Cockcroft from Battery Ventures and ex-Netflix took the stage next, arguing ...
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Puppet Enterprise Targets Application Orchestration
Rags Srinivas talks to Luke Kanies, CEO of Puppet Labs and a seasoned DevOps veteran about application orchestration, the past, present and future of DevOps.
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How Cloud-Based Development Makes AutoScout24 More Agile
InfoQ interviewed Erik Doernenburg and Philipp Garbe from AutoScout24 about what made them decide to switch to the cloud and which benefits they expected, and how they manage computing resources using the cloud. InfoQ also asked them to give some examples showing how the cloud helps to deploy DevOps and to explain why teams are interested in working in an agile way and are eager to try new things.
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Adrian Cockcroft on Analyzing Response Time Distributions for Microservices
At the microXchg conference, held in Berlin, Adrian Cockcroft presented “Analyzing Response Time Distributions for Microservices”. Cockcroft demonstrated how the combination of his Spigo microservice architecture simulation tool and the online Guesstimate Monte Carlo method tool can be used to visualise and experimentally simulate request response times within a complicated microservice system.
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"Wait, What!? Our Microservices Have Actual Human Users?" The Importance of UI Architecture
At the microXchg conference, Stefan Tilkov presented “Wait, what? Our microservices have actual human users?”. Tilkov proposed that current microservice discussions tend to be centered around backend topics. The presentation argued that it is of paramount importance to increase focus on how to structure what is arguably the most important part of a microservice application - the UI.
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Introducing AWS CloudWatch Events
Amazon recently announced changes to the way customers can monitor their AWS resources. The service, known as CloudWatch Events, allows customers to consume a near real-time stream of events as changes to their AWS environment take place. These event changes can subsequently trigger notifications, or other actions, through the use of rules.
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Microxchg Conference Day 1 Recap
Today was the first day of the Microxchg 2016 conference in Berlin, Germany. More than 250 people from all around Europe gathered to learn and discuss about microservices, where and how to be used and their future. in this article, we examing what were the key takeaways from the first day of the conference.
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Results of the InfoQ Readership Survey 2015
We present here the results for three questions included in the Readership Survey that InfoQ ran in 2015.