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Leverage the Cloud to Help Consolidate On-Prem Systems
A cloud model can be used to architecturally validate the possibility of consolidating multiple application servers into a smaller number of physical resources that will ultimately remain on-prem.
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DevSecOps: the Key to Securing Your Supply Chain in a Multi-Cloud Threatscape
Recent supply chain attacks require businesses to re-evaluate their approach to DevOps, specifically as it relates to security. The DevSecOps focus CI/CD platforms, testing and scanning across the SDLC, and a focus on minimizing manual efforts can not only improve security postures but also improve delivery of business value.
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DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report - July 2021
This article summarizes how we see the "cloud computing and DevOps" space in 2021, which focuses on fundamental infrastructure and operational patterns, the realization of patterns in technology frameworks, and the design processes and skills that a software architect or engineer must cultivate.
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Implementing Pipeline Microservicilities with Tekton
Microservicilities is a list of cross-cutting concerns that a service must implement apart from the business logic. These concerns include invocation, elasticity and resiliency, among others. This article describes how a service mesh such as Istio may be used to implement these concerns.
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Paving the Road to Production
Coinbase has gotten much from its deploy pipelines. We deploy thousands of servers across hundreds of projects per day, to serve our millions of customers and their billions in assets. This article explores the journey Coinbase took to get where it is now, it describes their paved roads and how they've had to change over time in response to their company growing.
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Implementing Microservicilites with Istio
Microservicilities is a list of cross-cutting concerns that a service must implement apart from the business logic. These concerns include invocation, elasticity and resiliency, among others. This article describes how a service mesh such as Istio may be used to implement these concerns.
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‘Debt’ as a Guide on the Agile Journey: Technical Debt
In this article in a series on how ‘debt’ can be used to guide an agile journey, we will provide two examples of smells that are related to technical debt, explain the symptoms, the impact on the business and in our organization, outline the experiments (countermeasures) that we have introduced in an effort to try to remove the smell, and provide some specific advice for you to be inspired.
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Cameron Purdy Explains Ecstasy - a New Cloud Native Environment
In this interview, Cameron Purdy discusses Ecstasy - a new Cloud Native programming system and runtime. It is designed to be highly scalable and able to achieve very high density in Cloud environments. The project is taking shape but not at the release stage yet.
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Microsoft's Low-Code Strategy Paints a Target on UIPath and the Other RPA Companies
Microsoft is investing big in the low code space and has put together a collection of products that is hard for other companies to match, capped recently by the announcement of PowerFX. The target in their sights is the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) companies such as UIPath, Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism who are closing big deals with big enterprises.
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Evolution of Azure Synapse: Apache Spark 3.0, GPU Acceleration, Delta Lake, Dataverse Support
At Microsoft Build 2021, Azure Synapse has announced significant improvements for its Apache Spark pool, its performance, and data querying and integration capabilities. This article outlines the improvements and provides the context.
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Q&A with Eveline Oerhlich on Building an Effective DevOps Culture
The DevOps Institute recently released their latest report entitled "Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report". The report found that automation and security remain vital to business success. A focus on building the human skills of DevOps was also identified as companies with the best learning cultures were most likely to succeed.
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Containers Are Contagious and Often Misused
Let’s get something straight right right from the start— this article is not to argue that containers are bad; containers are certainly one of many great options developers have in their hands today. This article is also not scoped at the pros/cons of containers; my intent is just to present the developers and dev leads with some considerations around containers.