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Exploring HyperLedger: Experience in Being a Framework Early Adopter
Some time ago OpenGift explored deploying a HyperLedger-based blockchain within a production environment. This article presents a story of our attempts to integrate it and the problems we encountered.
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Monitoring and Managing Workflows across Collaborating Microservices
This article argues that you need to balance orchestration and choreography in a microservices architecture in order to be able to understand, manage and change the system.
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Q&A on the Book Reinventing Jobs
The book Reinventing Jobs by Ravin Jesuthasan and John W. Boudreau provides a framework to understand and optimize the increasingly rapid evolution of work and automation. The framework explores four steps: deconstruct, optimize, automate, and reconfigure; it can be used to bundle work into jobs and create optimal human-machine combinations.
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DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report - February 2019
An overview of how the “cloud computing” and DevOps space is evolving in 2019 including updates on Kubernetes, Chaos Engineering, Service meshes and more.
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Two Sides of a Coin: Blockchain, Ethics and Human Rights
Blockchain is, for many people, still synonymous with cryptocurrencies and financial applications, but it has enormous potential as a tool for the common good. This article explores whether blockchain could help good causes and discusses whether the lessons from ethics could benefit the blockchain community.
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Tap Compare Testing with Diferencia and Java Microservices
“Tap compare” is a testing technique that allows you to test the behavior and performance of the new service by comparing its results against the old service. This article provides an example of using a new open source tool, Diferencia, and mirroring production traffic across both old and new services to compare the difference in result.
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Four Techniques Serverless Platforms Use to Balance Performance and Cost
There are two aspects that have been key to the rapid adoption of serverless computing: the performance and the cost model. This article looks at those aspects, the tradeoffs, and opportunity ahead.
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Ambassador: Building a Control Plane for an Envoy-Powered API Gateway on Kubernetes
This article provides an insight into the creation of the Ambassador open source API gateway for Kubernetes, and discusses the technical challenges and lessons learned from building a developer-focused control plane for managing ingress or "edge" traffic within microservice-based applications.
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Service Catalog and Kubernetes
Cloud-native applications do not just live inside Kubernetes—they also benefit from using the available cloud managed services. Similar to Kubernetes' declarative object configuration model, the Open Service Broker API with the Service Catalog provides a declarative way to describe cross-platform/cross-cloud managed service dependencies.
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Overcoming RESTlessness
New API protocols like GraphQL, gRPC, and Apache Kafka have risen in popularity as alternatives to REST-inspired HTTP APIs. Instead of seeking to replace REST, the software engineering industry should seek to evolve by building on the maturity of the REST ecosystem while exploiting the technological strengths of the new protocols.
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Rewriting an API Gateway Service from Clojure to Golang: AppsFlyer Experience Report
AppsFlyer processes nearly 70+ billion HTTP requests a day, and is built using a microservices architecture style. The entry point to the system that wraps all of the frontend services is a mission-critical (non-micro) service called the API Gateway. This article is an experience reporting of migrating from a Clojure-based gateway to a newly designed Go-based implementation.
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Developing Microservices with Behavior Driven Development and Interface Oriented Design
These dependencies require well-defined and well-tested services. Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Interface Oriented Design (IOD) help achieve this. BDD concentrates on the functionality of the services, which are specified with tests. IOD identifies contractual obligations (e.g. failure reporting) of the services.