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How Dropbox Created a Distributed Async Task Framework at Scale
Engineers at Dropbox designed a distributed async task framework (ATF) that can handle tens of thousands of async tasks scheduled per second. ATF's main feature is its ability to enable developers to define callbacks and schedule tasks that execute against these pre-defined callbacks.
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Organisational-Level Agile Anti-Patterns - Why They Exist and What to Do about Them
Agile anti-patterns can affect organisations, morale, and quality if left untreated. The critical first step is acknowledging the existence of the pain point. Effective root cause analysis helps to understand what causes the anti-patterns to arise in organisations, where actions can be taken to address those causes.
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AWS Introduces the Event Replay and Archive Capability in Its Eventbridge Service
Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that delivers a stream of real-time data from event sources and routes that data to targets like AWS Lambda. Recently, AWS introduced an event replay and archive capability - providing developers a way to replay past events and extend their applications with new functionality.
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Maximizing User Experience with Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix
Netflix uses its homegrown API gateway, Zuul, to classify incoming requests into priorities. When the system comes under load or is otherwise unstable, Zuul throttles traffic, starting with the lowest priority. It then progressively adjusts to shed load according to the priorities calculated until the system is healthy again.
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Applying Lean and Accelerate to Deliver Value: QCon Plus Q&A
Understanding the science and math behind lean principles and practices can enable engineering leaders to advocate for and implement them in their workplace. This way they can directly impact employee engagement and morale, as well as the bottom line, as David Van Couvering explained in his talk about applying lean principles and practices for delivering value at QCon Plus 2020.
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Mock Service Worker Library Enables Resilient REST and GraphQL API Testing
The Mock Service Worker (MSW) API mocking library allows developers to test web applications without using an actual back-end, setting up a mocking server, or stubbing native http/https/fetch implementations. MSW mocks both Rest and GraphQL APIs. MSW received the JavaScript Open Source Awards this year.
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Facebook.com Redesign: Stack and Strategies for Sustainable Performance
Facebook detailed in a blog post the technologies and strategies powering FB5, the latest iteration of the facebook.com website. Facebook rearchitected its website and standardized its technological stack around React, GraphQL, Relay, and its custom CSS-in-JS library. The goal of the rewrite was to increase performance and make it easy to add new features.
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AWS Announces Amazon MQ Will Support RabbitMQ
AWS announced Amazon MQ will now support RabbitMQ, a popular open-source message broker. With the support for RabbitMQ, customers can migrate their existing RabbitMQ message brokers to AWS without rewriting code.
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HashiCorp Enhances Consul with Topology Maps and Improved Kubernetes Integrations
Hashicorp has announced the beta release of Consul 1.9, adding new features to their service mesh platform. This release includes enhancements to the intentions model to support Layer 7 constructs, new visualizations for verifying configurations, and custom resources for Kubernetes.
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Google Announces Eventarc in Preview
In a recent blog post, Google announced Eventarc, a new events functionality that allows customers to trigger Cloud Run from more than 60 Google Cloud sources. With Eventarc, customers can build event-driven applications and take care of event ingestion, delivery, security, authorization, observability, and error handling.
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Value vs Time: an Agile Contract Model
An agile contract model can help us to focus on the value delivered to the customer. It allows for rewarding teams and people, and can drive continuous improvement towards common goals. InfoQ interviewed Andrea Zomer, CEO at Zupit, about their experiences with an agile contract model.
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UX Patterns: Stale-While-Revalidate
Stale-while-revalidate (SWR) caching strategies provide faster feedback to the user of web applications, while still allowing eventual consistency. Faster feedback reduces the necessity to show spinners and may result in better-perceived user experience.
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JavaScript Smart Contract Platform Agoric Integrates with Chainlink Oracle
The integration of Chainlink oracles with Agoric smart contract platform aims to enable the use of decentralized finance (DeFi) data and events in JavaScript smart contract applications.
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Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Gains Delivery to HTTP Endpoints
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose recently gained support to deliver streaming data to generic HTTP endpoints. This also enables additional AWS services as destinations via Amazon API Gateway's service integration. The new capability is complemented with dedicated integrations of additional third-party service providers like Datadog, MongoDB, and New Relic.
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Svelte at the Edge - Luke Edwards at Svelte Summit
Luke Edwards recently gave a talk at Svelte Summit 2020 in which he discussed running Svelte application at the edge. Edwards demoed building and running a simple Svelte application with CloudFlare Workers and Google Cloud.
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