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A Standardized, Specification-Driven API Lifecycle
At QCon Plus last November, Kin Lane, Chief Evangelist with Postman, and the Open Technologies Team lead presented on API specifications. API specifications are essential to him and at Postman. So he wanted to share a bit of how they see API specifications impacting how they produce and consume APIs.
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Ballerina for Full-Stack Developers: a Guide to Creating Backend APIs
This article explores Ballerina’s intuitive syntax for writing REST APIs. We also discuss authentication, authorization, OpenAPI tool, observability, SQL/NoSQL client libraries, and key language features. At the end of this article, you will have a good understanding of why Ballerina is a prominent candidate for writing your next backend API.
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Low-Code Tools Optimize Engineering Time for Internal Applications
Internal tools are critical pieces of software, often custom-built, and requiring significant developer bandwidth. Low-code platforms can optimize developer productivity, facilitate collaboration, and allow less technical employees to be more active in the development process.
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Level up Your Java Performance with TornadoVM
GPUs, FPGAs, or multi-core CPUs are present in almost every computing system today. These devices help increase performance and run more efficient workloads, but most frameworks are built on C or C++ only. At QCon Plus, Juan Fumero spoke about TornadoVM, a high-performance computing platform for the JVM, allowing to offload, at runtime, Java code to run on heterogeneous hardware accelerators.
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From Couch to Continuous Documentation: Incorporating Documentation into the Development Workflow
As software teams and projects grow, they suffer from knowledge management pains related to their code - lengthy onboarding, limiting knowledge silos, complex code, and risk of attrition. Creating Walkthrough Documentation while practicing Continuous Documentation can address most of the problems that relate to code-related knowledge sharing and management.
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Building End-to-End Field Level Lineage for Modern Data Systems
In this article, the authors discuss the data lineage as a critical component of data pipeline root cause and impact analysis workflow, and how automating lineage creation and abstracting metadata to field-level helps with the root cause analysis efforts.
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Designing IoT Solutions with Microsoft Azure
In this article, we will learn how the IoT solutions can work with Microsoft Azure and what services are available to perform different operations across multiple domains. Furthermore, it covers a few case studies to gain hands-on experience on Azure IoT that are common and provide a good starting point for utilizing cloud-based IoT services.
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A Quick Look at Advanced IoT Sensors for the Enterprise Going Digital
Thanks to IoT developing at a rapid pace, devices, including sensors, are becoming more affordable, and the entire ecosystem has gotten smarter. These results allow businesses to satisfy more specific needs according to their manufacturing process, as well as to take measurements in complex conditions. In this article we will provide an overview of where IoT sensors currently stand.
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An Introduction and Tutorial for Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, JSON-based database delivered as a ‘Platform as a Service’ (PaaS) in Microsoft Azure. Learn about the benefits and disadvantages of Azure Cosmos DB. Find out more about this database and discover how to interact with it using tools, SDKs, and APIs.
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Is Docker Secure Enough? Advice for Configuring Secure Container Images and Runtimes
Ensure that Docker is secure enough by fine-tuning the security approach to meet your use cases. It is important to have an understanding of the differences between the Docker image and the Docker runtime and the security implications and priorities for each. This article covers a number of techniques for ensuring appropriate security for Docker.
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InfoQ Mobile and IoT Trends Report 2022
This report summarizes the views of the InfoQ editorial team and of several practitioners from the software industry about emerging trends in a number of areas that we collectively label the mobile and IoT space. This is a rather heterogeneous space comprising devices and gadgets from smartphones to smart watches, from IoT appliances to smart glasses, voice-driven assistants, and so on.
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Seven Ways to Fail at Microservices
At QCon Plus last November, I presented some of the ways microservices can go wrong. I’m a consultant for IBM, and part of my job is helping businesses get cloud-native. These problems are based on my experience – which, unfortunately, I see repeatedly in the field.