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Software Architecture: It Might Not Be What You Think It Is
Software architecture is often a misunderstood idea. Unlike traditional architecture, where the design is separated from construction, in software how something is built influences what is built, and vice versa. Software architecture is about decisions, not structure. Architecting is a skill, and architect should not be a role.
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Using Patterns to Drive a Transformation towards Agility - Practical Insights from Large Companies
In the DACH region, a community of transformation leaders from about 30 companies started “DACH30” sessions where they share experiences and insights from their efforts to help their companies become more agile. This article highlights successful patterns to foster change, how to apply flow-oriented design to optimise your delivery capabilities, and the danger of the illusion of control.
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Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report—April 2022
An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2022, with a focus on what architects are designing for today.
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Data Patterns for the Edge: Data Localization, Privacy Laws, and Performance
With growing competition to get data that power experiences to the end-user closer and closer and the advent of local data privacy laws, let's look at different enterprise data patterns like “synchronous data retrieval”, “subsequent data retrieval” and “prefetch data retrieval” on data center.
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How to Best Use MTT* Metrics to Optimize Your Incident Response
Selecting the correct MTT* metric to improve your incident response is important. If the wrong metric is chosen, the improvements may get lost in the noise of a multivariable equation. This article reviews the various MTT* metrics available and discusses the best scenarios for selecting each one.
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Continuous Portfolio Management as a Contributor for Achieving Highly-Aligned, Loosely-Coupled Teams
There is a business need for fast software delivery in order to frequently test business hypotheses and drive development based on the resulting feedback. Organizations need to rapidly decide on what to build next, using a short feedback loop that greatly reduces the risk of running on untested assumptions for too long. This article explores a journey towards continuous portfolio management.
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A Standardized, Specification-Driven API Lifecycle
At QCon Plus last November, Kin Lane, Chief Evangelist with Postman, and the Open Technologies Team lead presented on API specifications. API specifications are essential to him and at Postman. So he wanted to share a bit of how they see API specifications impacting how they produce and consume APIs.
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Ballerina for Full-Stack Developers: a Guide to Creating Backend APIs
This article explores Ballerina’s intuitive syntax for writing REST APIs. We also discuss authentication, authorization, OpenAPI tool, observability, SQL/NoSQL client libraries, and key language features. At the end of this article, you will have a good understanding of why Ballerina is a prominent candidate for writing your next backend API.
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Low-Code Tools Optimize Engineering Time for Internal Applications
Internal tools are critical pieces of software, often custom-built, and requiring significant developer bandwidth. Low-code platforms can optimize developer productivity, facilitate collaboration, and allow less technical employees to be more active in the development process.
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Using the Problem Reframing Method to Build Innovative Solutions
Building products that customers love relies heavily on the problem space: how well you know your audience and how clear are the pain points and main problems your users are facing. This means that the solution to a problem depends on how we frame the problem. This article provides different practices and tools on how to apply problem reframing underpinned by a real case study.
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Best Practices for Running Stateful Applications on Kubernetes
Running stateful applications on Kubernetes is not a common use-case but it is possible. This article covers a number of techniques for safely operating stateful applications on Kubernetes including the StatefulSet and DaemonSet controllers, secret management, ConfigMaps, and the effective use of namespacing.
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From Couch to Continuous Documentation: Incorporating Documentation into the Development Workflow
As software teams and projects grow, they suffer from knowledge management pains related to their code - lengthy onboarding, limiting knowledge silos, complex code, and risk of attrition. Creating Walkthrough Documentation while practicing Continuous Documentation can address most of the problems that relate to code-related knowledge sharing and management.