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Testing Programmable Infrastructure - a Year On
Programmable infrastructure is becoming widespread. There are very specific domain issues that make testing it tricky. This article looks at the evolution of tooling and approaches used to address it.
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Deep Dive into JUnit 5 Extension Model
JUnit 5 is a modular and extensible testing framework with support for Java 8 and higher. The Jupiter extension model can be used to add custom features. This is explained by building out a simple set of extensions that support the BDD approach to testing with full code examples.
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Increasing Security with a Service Mesh: Christian Posta Explores the Capabilities of Istio
Istio attempts to solve some particularly difficult challenges when running applications in a cloud platform: application networking, reliability, and observability and (the focus of this article) security. With Istio, communication between services in the mesh is secure and encrypted by default. Istio can also help with "origin" or "end-user" JWT identity token verification.
Envoy Service Mesh Case Study: Mitigating Cascading Failure at Lyft
As the number of microservices grew at Lyft, so did the number of outages due to cascading failure. Today, these failure scenarios are largely a solved problem due to the use of the Envoy Proxy.
Q&A on the Book "Microservices, a Practical Guide, Principles, Concepts, and Recipes"
The book “Microservices, a Practical Guide” by Eberhard Wolff explores technology stacks for microservices-based architectures targeting the implementation decisions at the overall system level.
PSD2: Blessing or Curse for Banks?
PSD2 will force all European banks to offer three APIs free of charges to all 3rd parties approved by the ECB. For a successful transformation into a digital company, banks must evolve.
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon New York 2018
This year, at the seventh annual QCon New York, our second year in Time Square, we had in total 143 speakers across the 117 sessions, workshops, AMAs, Open Spaces and mini-workshops.
Improving Testability of Java Microservices with Container Orchestration and a Service Mesh
This article provides a practical demonstration of how container orchestration and service mesh technology provides an abstraction over service instances and networking, which enables better testing.
Understanding Software System Behaviour with ML and Time Series Data
David Andrzejewski presented "Understanding Software System Behavior with ML and Time Series Data". This article is a summary of his presentation and an overview on what to look out for.
