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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
Java

Debezium and Quarkus: Change Data Capture Patterns to Avoid Dual-Writes Problems

It’s common in microservices to write data in two places, a database and then send the content to another microservice. One approach to tackle this problem is dual writes, but you may lose data because of concurrent writes. Debezium is an open-source project for change data capture using the log scanner approach to avoid dual writes and communicate persisted data correctly between services.

Alex Soto
on Aug 15, 2022
Architecture & Design

Data Manipulation with Functional Programming and Queries in Ballerina

Ballerina has been designed as a data-oriented programming language and supports a functional programming coding style. The Ballerina query language is similar to SQL in the sense that a query expression is made up of clauses. The Ballerina “Table” data structure can be more effective than maps in representing indexed data collections.

Yehonathan Sharvit
on Aug 11, 2022
DevOps

Infrastructure as a Code—Why Drift Management Is Not Enough

The reality is that configuration drift will remain unavoidable for the foreseeable future. An EaaS solution, coupled with an IaC platform and good change management policies will help you prevent drift and shorten your development cycles.

Roxana Ciobanu
on Aug 09, 2022
Culture & Methods

How Open Source is Contributing to Your Team’s Development: What Leaders Should Know

Today’s open source landscape plays a critical role in the developer journey and in business as well. This piece examines common barriers to contribution, how businesses benefit from open source, and what it may look like for businesses to help prioritize open source contribution among their employees.

Al Sene
on Aug 05, 2022
Cloud

Managing Kubernetes Secrets with the External Secrets Operator

Kubernetes doesn’t yet have the capabilities to manage the lifecycle of secrets, so sometimes we need external systems to manage this sensitive information. Once the amount of secret information we need to manage increases, we may need additional tools to simplify and better manage the process. In this article, we’ll take a detailed look at one of these tools, the External Secrets Operator.

Önsel Akin
on Aug 02, 2022
Mobile

Mobile Video-Conferencing Using Jitsi

In this article, we will look at alternatives for providing video meetings on mobile devices. We take Jitsi as a popular open source option, which provides Jitsi Meet, an ad-hoc video meetings service, and JaaS, a service platform for developers. Looking at user engagement data, we see there’s no "one size fits all" solution.

Tsahi Levent-Levi
on Jul 25, 2022
DevOps

Discovering the Versatility of OpenEBS

OpenEBS provides storage for stateful applications running on Kubernetes, including dynamic local persistent volumes or replicated volumes using various "data engines". OpenEBS can address a wide range of applications, from casual testing and experimentation to high-performance production workloads

Jerome Petazzoni
on Jul 22, 2022

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