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Using GreenOps to Improve Your Operational Efficiency and Save the Planet
Our infrastructures have environmental and economic costs; the IT sector is responsible for 1.4% of carbon emissions worldwide. GreenOps can be used to help mitigate this impact.
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Using Generative AI in Software Project Management to Bridge Domains and Accelerate Productivity
Gen AI Assistants play to the strengths of professionals with a breadth of experience, particularly software developers who can describe what they want the LLM to complete and critically evaluate the result. These tools enable us to swiftly cross divides of domain language and scale large repetitive tasks down to interesting ones on a human scale.
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Zero to Performance Hero: How to Benchmark and Profile Your eBPF Code in Rust
In this article, we will walk through creating a basic eBPF program in Rust. We will intentionally include a performance regression and then use profilers to locate and fix the bug. We will also create benchmarks and track them using a continuous benchmarking tool for CI.
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Elevating Kubernetes Logging for Enhanced Observability
In this article, we will explore the challenges, strategies, and best practices that will help you achieve seamless log management in your Kubernetes environment.
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Delivering Great Developer Experiences with Platform Engineering
Companies increasingly turn to platform engineering to help scale their development teams and increase developer experience for engineer efficiency. In this virtual panel, we’ll discuss how teams build platforms, set others up for success, work with developers who use their platform, measure their progress, and adapt to new challenges.
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Streaming HTML – Asynchronous DOM Updates without JavaScript
Web applications provide the best user experience when pages load quickly and display additional data as it becomes available. Developers typically use JavaScript to load data asynchronously, but this adds complexity when compared to server-side rendering. We review a technique that uses the Shadow DOM with HTTP streaming to load pages quickly and display data asynchronously without JavaScript.
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Optimizing Spring Boot Config Management with ConfigMaps: Environment Variables or Volume Mounts
Spring Boot stands out as a viable framework for its agility and streamlined workflow. Yet, effective configuration management remains a pivotal factor influencing deployment efficiency and ongoing maintenance. ConfigMaps, a feature in Kubernetes, provides configuration strategies for Spring Boot applications.
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Million Dollar Lines of Code - an Engineering Perspective on Cloud Cost Optimization
A single line of code can shape an organization's financial future. Erik Peterson, the CTO and founder at CloudZero, presented an engineering perspective on cloud cost optimization at QCon San Francisco.
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Architectural Trade-Offs: the Art of Minimizing Unhappiness
To architect is to be a frustrated perfectionist; a good architecture minimizes this unhappiness by making trade-offs that can be lived with. The main skill in architecting is making trade-offs. These trade-offs reflect the most important and difficult decisions a team will make about its architecture.
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Introducing the RIG Model - the Puzzle of Designing Guaranteed Data-Consistent Microservice Systems
The RIG model formulates three rules for a saga call chain. Using a gamified RIG tool, consisting of three main RIG puzzle pieces, teams can model a microservice system that guarantees eventual data consistency.
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Accelerating Technical Decision-Making by Empowering ICs with Engineering Strategy
Carta harnesses the power of a small group of senior engineers called navigators to bridge the gap between global strategy and local decision-making, using a written engineering strategy. Navigators replace a need for consensus and boost velocity by combining technical context, domain context, strategic alignment, and judgment to make engineering decisions quickly.
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Experimenting with LLMs for Developer Productivity
This article describes an experiment that sought to determine if no-cost LLM-based code generation tools can improve developer productivity. The experiment evaluated several LLMs by generating unit tests for some open-source code and measuring the code coverage as well as the manual rework necessary to make the tests work.