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InfoQ Software Architecture and Design Trends Report - April 2023
This article provides an overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2023, with a focus on what architects are designing for today.
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The Silent Platform Revolution: How eBPF Is Fundamentally Transforming Cloud-Native Platforms
There is a silent eBPF revolution reshaping platforms and the cloud-native world in its image, and this is its story.
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Migrate a RMI-Based Legacy Application to WebSocket
Technical debt, especially in enterprise software, is a relevant problem that developers recurrently have to face. This article provides a use case related to removing technical debt in a large enterprise application based on an old fashioned Remote Method Invocation (RMI) protocol, and migrating it toward modern cloud-aware communication technologies.
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Assessing Organizational Culture to Drive SRE Adoption
SRE adoption is greatly influenced by the organizational culture at hand. This article describes how to assess the organizational culture in terms of production operations at the beginning of the SRE transformation. It provides a roadmap of small culture changes accumulating over time, and shows how the leadership facilitated the necessary culture changes
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When DevOps Meets Security to Protect Software
Security can no longer be an afterthought in the software development process. Collaboration between security and development needs to happen early to be effective.
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Rapid Startup of Your Cloud-Native Java Applications without Compromise
This article discusses the significance of startup time in cloud-native computing, highlighting challenges for JVM-based apps. It introduces Liberty InstantOn, which boosts startup times using checkpoint/restore technology, offering fast startup without compromising Java capabilities or facing static compilation trade-offs.
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InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report - March 2023
The two biggest factors influencing organisational culture in early 2023 are the highly publicised and hugely disruptive layoffs across the tech industry and the emergence of Large Language Models such as ChatGPT.
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12 Places to Intervene - Rethink FinOps Using a Systems Thinking Lens
A recent study on FinOps by McKinsey reveals that 69% of organizations prioritize tactical initiatives over higher-impact strategic initiatives. One reason could be that most of those organizations are unaware of those strategic initiatives or unaware of their importance of them. In this article, I will analyze via a System Thinking lens how to prioritize the efforts to address those problems.
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Accelerating the Secure Software Delivery Lifecycle with GitOps
Building secure software can be complicated and time-consuming. By employing a GitOps model, security can be safely separated from development, simplifying the delivery process and increasing velocity.
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Billions of Messages Per Minute Over TCP/IP
Chronicle Wire offers an alternative way of transferring data between systems, delivering more messages, faster, than common JSON/XML approaches. This approach to data serialization improves both latency and throughput.
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Improving CI/CD Pipelines through Observability
CI/CD pipelines are a vital addition to any workflow, but they can be further improved by the selective addition of observability. This article covers what data to monitor, which metrics to track, and how to best visualize the collected data.
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How Visual Thinking Can Help Teams Get Clarity, Be More Creative, and Have More Inclusive Meetings
Visual thinking is a way of making sense of the world through images, putting thoughts into pictures. This article is here to help you understand about visual thinking, and how you could use it to support yourself and your teams to create a more inclusive, creative and collaborative culture at work.