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ASP.NET SPA Templates Proxy Changes from .NET 5 to .NET 6, .NET 7, and on
From .NET 6 the communication between front-end Single Page Applications (SPA) in ASP.NET and back-end .NET API was changed, with the SPA templates using the front end’s proxy solutions. A proxy for the development servers enables readable and debuggable code for both the front and back end, with the new approach resulting in a more independent back end.
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Adopting an API Maturity Model to Accelerate Innovation
As your APIs gain more popularity, API sprawl can become an issue. A top-down governance approach is best suited to managing APIs at scale.
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The Journey from Underrepresented IC to CTO: How Open Source Helped
This article tells the story of a minority woman's journey from DBA to co-founder & CTO, using open source to overcome gender disparity. It provides insights on career shifting, open-source monetization, and the distinction between IC and CTO. The author shares advice and insights that may be helpful for others.
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Unleash the Power of Open Source Java Profilers: Comparing VisualVM, JMC, and async-profiler
This article conveys the foundational concepts and different types of Open Source Java profilers. It allows you to choose the best-suited profiler for your needs and comprehend how these tools work in principle. The aim of a profiler is to obtain information on the program execution so that a developer can see how much time a method executed in a given period.
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A Simpler Testing Pyramid: Getting the Most out of Your Tests
Overcomplicating your test structure can lead to slow, brittle tests. A focus on test speed as the primary labeling mechanism maximizes your test investment.
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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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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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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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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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Using ASP.NET Core 7 Minimal APIs: Request Filters, Parameter Mapping, and More
Several features have been added to Minimal APIs with the .NET 7 release. This tutorial shows how they are now almost as powerful as traditional controller-based APIs while being far less verbose.
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The Great Lambda Migration to Kubernetes Jobs—a Journey in Three Parts
In this article, I’d like to share our journey at Firefly on a great migration from serverless to Kubernetes jobs, lessons learned, and the technologies that helped us do so with minimal pain.