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Characteristics of Serverless Architecture

Too much of the current literature dealing with serverless architecture is driven by cloud providers and focuses only on the benefits, Wisen Tanasa writes in a recent blog post. When a new technology emerges, it's important to understand the implications of adopting it, and Tanasa therefore tries to give a better, more objective understanding of the traits of serverless architecture.

Jan Stenberg
on Aug 13, 2019
Architecture & Design

Data Engineering in Badoo: Handling 20 Billion Events Per Day

Badoo is a dating social network that currently handles billions of events per day, explains Vladimir Kazanov, data platform engineering lead. At Skills Matter, he talked through some of the challenges of operating at this scale, and what tooling Badoo uses in order to process and report on this data.

Andrew Morgan
on Aug 09, 2019
Culture & Methods

Achieving Predictability in a Complex World

Predictability is the precursor and enabler for other important things people are looking for, like doing things faster and cheaper, argued Jose Casal at Agile Portugal 2019. He presented how to achieve predictability in three steps: focus on work in progress, reduce time to get work done, and consider how to get more done.

Ben Linders
on Aug 08, 2019
DevOps

Slack Shares Strategy Used to Load-Test New Encryption Service

Slack’s engineering team has revealed the load-testing strategy that has become a critical part of their continuous delivery pipeline, and suggests it promotes greater ownership by engineers. While the Slack engineers stated they had minimal load-testing experience, they built it from scratch using Go and used a methodical approach that offers a roadmap for engineers facing similar challenges.

Rupert Field
on Aug 08, 2019
Development

Successful Software Rewrites: The Slack for Desktop Case

With Netscape as an example, Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Stack Overflow, posited that rewriting code from scratch is the single worst strategic mistake any software company can make. The recent rewrite of Slack for Desktop seems to indicate otherwise.

Bruno Couriol
on Jul 30, 2019
DevOps

HashiCorp Releases Consul 1.6 with Layer 7 Dynamic Traffic Management and Cross-Network Connectivity

Hashicorp released version 1.6 of Consul, their service mesh application and key-value store. This release builds on the features added in version 1.5 by introducing layer 7 routing and traffic management. It additionally delivers a new feature, mesh gateway, to route service traffic across regions, platforms, and clouds.

Matt Campbell
on Jul 30, 2019
Architecture & Design

How Shopify Migrated to a Modular Monolith

Kirsten Westeinde, senior engineer at Shopify, discussed the evolution of Shopify into a modular monolith at Shopify Unite 2019. This included using the design payoff line to decide when to make this change, how it was achieved, and also why microservices were ruled out as a target architecture.

Andrew Morgan
on Jul 29, 2019
Cloud

Microsoft Releases PowerApps Portals Preview, a Low-Code Customer Portal Solution

In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced PowerApps Portals in preview, a low-code solution for building responsive customer portals. PowerApps Portals is the successor of Dynamics 365 Portals, which generally required developers to use complex web templates. Using PowerApps Portals, people familiar with Microsoft PowerApps can transition those skills into building customer-facing portals.

Kent Weare
on Jul 29, 2019
Architecture & Design

High Scalability Workflow Engine Zeebe is Production Ready

Zeebe is a workflow engine designed to meet the scalability requirements of high-performance applications running on cloud-native and event-driven architectures, and to support workflows that span multiple microservices in low latency, high-throughput scenarios. Zeebe 0.20.0 has just been released as a free community edition and is considered production ready.

Jan Stenberg
on Jul 19, 2019 4
Culture & Methods

Uncovering Sustainable and Scalable Solutions for Digital Transformations

Using the term “digital transformation” limits our change approach to traditional linear management techniques which are ineffective in dealing with today’s organizational complexity. We need to focus on understanding the context and the organization’s inner working to come up with sustainable and scalable solutions for organizational change.

Ben Linders
on Jul 18, 2019
Web Development

Google Formalizes Robots Exclusion Protocol in Effort to Make It an Internet Standard

The Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) has governed the rules defining how to prevent crawlers from accessing a website since 1994. Now, Google has submitted a draft to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to make it an Internet Standard. In addition, Google has open sourced its implementation of the protocol.

Sergio De Simone
on Jul 18, 2019
Java

Spring Boot Project-Creation-Tool, Spring Initializr, Gets Several New Updates

Spring Initializr received several updates and additions including the addition of a highly requested feature, a project explorer. They also included a refactored and redesigned project generation API and a newly redesigned UI.

Dustin Schultz
on Jul 18, 2019
Cloud

Amazon EventBridge – Event-Driven AWS Integration for SaaS Applications Now Generally Available

At the recent AWS Summit Event in New York, Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon EventBridge, a serverless event bus that allows AWS, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and custom applications to communicate with each other using events.

Steef-Jan Wiggers
on Jul 16, 2019
Web Development

The Three Key Dimensions of Front-End Frameworks - Evan You at JS Conf Asia 2019

Evan You, Vue.js framework's creator, recently talked at JS Conf Asia 2019 about seeking balance in framework design. Frameworks should be distinguished on three design tradeoffs: scope, render mechanism, and state mechanism, rather than on popularity-based metrics. Frameworks are best evaluated on a continuous tradeoff axis instead of with a binary (good vs. bad) determination.

Bruno Couriol
on Jul 16, 2019 6
Architecture & Design

Practical Domain-Driven Design with Events and Microservices - Indu Alagarsamy at QCon New York

Domain-driven design (DDD) concepts like Bounded Contexts and Messaging technologies can be used to build reliable systems that can scale with the business changes. Indu Alagarsamy recently spoke at QCon New York 2019 Conference about using the combination of well-defined bounded contexts and events to develop autonomous microservices that are flexible to adapt to the business changes.

Srini Penchikala
on Jul 15, 2019