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Building & Operating High-Fidelity Data Streams

At QCon Plus 2021 last November, Sid Anand, chief architect at Datazoom and PMC Member at Apache Airflow, presented on building high-fidelity nearline data streams as a service within a lean team. In this talk, Anand provides a master class on building high-fidelity data streams from the ground up.

Sid Anand
on Sep 30, 2022
Java

Moving Kafka and Debezium to Kubernetes Using Strimzi - the GitOps Way

Deploying an Apache Kafka cluster to a Kubernetes is not an easy task. There are a lot of pieces to configure like the zookeeper, the Kafka cluster, topics, and users. Strimzi is a Kubernetes controller making the deployment process of Kafka a child game. Moreover, Strimzi lets you manage Kafka using GitOps methodology as everything is executed using a Kubernetes YAML file.

Alex Soto
on Sep 28, 2022
Culture & Methods

Moldable Development: Guiding Technical Decisions without Reading Code

Developers spend most of their time reading code. Moldable Development challenges reading as a means to gather information from the system, by creating custom tools that show the problem in a way that makes it comfortable to understand. The solution typically follows quickly afterward. Glamorous Toolkit is a moldable development environment designed to decrease the cost of custom tools.

Tudor Girba
on Sep 27, 2022
.NET

InfoQ .NET Trends Report 2022

Every year, all InfoQ editors invite seasoned developers and practitioners from the industry to discuss the current trends in the entire software development landscape. In this article, we discuss some of the .NET Trends for 2022, divided into four stages of adoption.

Arthur Casals Edin Kapić Irina Scurtu François Tanguay
on Sep 26, 2022
Java

Virtual Threads: New Foundations for High-Scale Java Applications

Virtual threads are a lightweight implementation of Java threads, delivered as a preview feature in Java 19. They dramatically reduce the effort of writing, maintaining, and observing high-throughput concurrent applications. Virtual threads breathe new life into the familiar thread-per-request style of programming, allowing it to scale with near-optimal hardware utilization.

Brian Goetz
on Sep 23, 2022
AI, ML & Data Engineering

How to Migrate an Oracle Database to MySQL Using AWS Database Migration Service

Data migration efforts are typically taken up for database consolidation, cost considerations, or migrating on-prem databases to a cloud platform. In this article, author Deepak Vohra discusses the details of migrating a local database to MySQL database on the cloud, using AWS Database Migration Service.

Deepak Vohra
on Sep 07, 2022
Cloud

Choosing the Right Cloud Infrastructure for Your SaaS Start-up

As a solutions architect, I have been designing SaaS applications for years and I have seen start-ups struggle to find the right cloud infrastructure and improve their product offering. These experiences prompted me to write this article as a tool to help companies make a pragmatic fact and data-driven decision.

Ratnesh Singh Parihar
on Sep 06, 2022
Cloud

Building Workflows with AWS Step Functions

AWS Step Functions use a state machine to represent the workflow. A workflow consists of a set of tasks, each of which represents a discrete activity to be performed. Each task is defined by a state of the state machine. In this article, we will learn about the main concepts of AWS Step Functions and apply those to build a workflow for a sample business process: Order Fulfillment.

Pratik Das
on Sep 01, 2022
Java

Java Champion James Ward on the State of Java and JVM Languages

James Ward is a Java Champion and Google’s Kotlin product manager. In a podcast, Ward agreed that “people are still trapped in the Java world” and called default mutability in Java the “trillion-dollar mistake”. In this interview, he speaks about the state of Java, JVM languages, mutability, and functional programming.

James Ward Karsten Silz
on Aug 29, 2022
Java

How to Speed up Large Collections Processing in Java

A review on Java performance for many objects using Java Collections or alternative collections, with the impact of serial vs. parallel streams. For some streaming data sets, parallel processing can be slower than the default.

Nahla Davies
on Aug 26, 2022
Architecture & Design

Business Systems Integration is about to Get a Whole Lot Easier

A new breed of integration software is arising that syncs business data into a simplified data hub and then syncs that data to the destination system. The benefit of this integration pattern is that it reduces the number of manual transformations required (often to zero) and makes it easier to write manual transformations when you have to.

Doug Hudgeon
on Aug 24, 2022
Cloud

Cloud Native Network Functions Are Here

Compute elasticity, for instance, is reasonably allocated with virtual machines, containers, and orchestrators and managed with CI/CD pipelines. Network elasticity seems to be lacking in implementation. In this article, we show that cloud native network functions are an attempt to bring network applications into the cloud native world.

W. Watson
on Aug 18, 2022

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