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WebAssembly at Sentry - Q&A with Armin Ronacher

Sentry sees great potential in WebAssembly and uses it internally in the context of its ingestion system. However, further usage is hampered by the limited capabilities of WebAssembly when debugging in production. While proposals exist to make the DWARF standard debugging format work with Wasm, more work and better tooling are necessary. InfoQ interviews Sentry's Armin Ronacher.

Apache Arrow and Java: Lightning Speed Big Data Transfer

Apache Arrow puts forward a cross-language, cross-platform, columnar in-memory data format for data. It is designed to eliminate the need for data serialization and reduce the overhead of copying.

Building .NET Applications for AWS

AWS provides a large set of online services. To use those services effectively, AWS offers .NET developers a complete SDK for building apps, and a set of toolkits for popular IDEs.

Interview with Node.js Technical Steering Committee Chair

Michael Dawson, active contributor to the Node.js project and chair of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee(TSC), and IBM Node.js community lead, joins us for a behind-the-scenes look at Node.js. The recent Node.js 14 release introduces improvements in Diagnostic Reporting, Internationalization, ES module loading, and an experimental Web Assembly System Interface.

Q&A with Galo Navarro on Building an Effective Platform Team

Galo Navarro discusses how to build an effective platform team and scale it to support a large organization. InfoQ recently sat down with Navarro to discuss his approach for building a strong platform team including setting a clear mandate and balancing autonomy of product teams with clear standards.

Rethinking Programming: Language and Platform for Cloud-Era Application Developers

Ballerina is an open source programming language, which focuses on improving the productivity of the latter group by providing necessary abstractions, tools, and platforms to create cloud native applications.

The Past, Present, and Future of API Gateways

The edge has evolved from simple hardware load balancers to a full stack of hardware and software proxies that comprise API Gateways, content delivery networks, and load balancers. In this article, we’ll trace the evolution of the data center edge as application architecture and workflows have evolved.

Article Series: Edge Cloud

How to Use Encryption for Defense in Depth in Native and Browser Apps

Isaac Potoczny-Jones discusses the pros and cons of application-layer encryption. He covers the attack surface of application-layer encryption in the browser, how it is very different from native clients, and how WebCrypto helps.

Data Gateways in the Cloud Native Era

Data Gateways act like API Gateways but focus on access to the data aspect. A Data Gateway offers abstractions, security, scaling, federation, and contract-driven development features. There are many types of Data Gateways, from the traditional data virtualization technologies, to light GraphQL translators, cloud-hosted services, connection pools, and fully open source alternatives.

Understanding Classic Java Garbage Collection

Java Garbage Collection remains a topic of major interest even after 25 years. Many developers are still confused about the fundamentals of the topic, even of the most widely-used implementation (Parallel on Java 8).

Critical Metrics to Keep Delivering Software Effectively in the "New Normal" World

The health of your software delivery capability is critical in the ‘new normal’ world. This requires the ability to track a hierarchy of metrics. Our top five overall delivery health metrics include: Time to Value; Deployment Frequency; and Team Engagement. Whichever metrics you choose, it is managing to metrics that is critical in the ‘new normal’ world.