An overview of the key characteristics of complex IoT systems and applications. Based on them, the author identifies the software abstractions at the basis of IoT-oriented software engineering.

The emergence of millions of remotely programmable devices in our surroundings will pose significant challenges for software developers that haven’t received enough attention yet.

This article describes Sock Shop, a fully containerized, microservice architecture, cloud native reference application developed by Weaveworks.

Everybody seems to be building microservices these days, and Self-contained Systems (SCS) are an opinionated approach to building services. Each SCS is effectively an autonomous web application. 2

API documentation is an often overlooked part of making any API a success. This article explores how to make the documentation part of a continuous integration pipeline.

This article shares leaky terminologies used in the IT industry with examples, explains why consistency matters and suggests how to deal with inconsistencies and improve the situation. 1

Feng Jia and Wang Xiaorui share the core distributed systems principals behind RocketMQ, Alibaba's distributed messaging and data streaming platform now open sourced through the Apache Foundation.

This year was the 11th for QCon London; our largest London event to date. Including our 140 speakers we had 1435 team leads, architects, and project managers attending 112 technical sessions.

A practical approach to designing and building a modular monolith, can result in better solution than microservices, especially for complex domains, such as enterprise applications. 7

In the age of microservices, "monolith" has become a dirty word. Yet, monoliths, designed with an emphasis on modularity, can be a better solution for complex domains, such as enterprise applications. 9