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Service Overload Detection and Remediation at LinkedIn
LinkedIn recently published how it handles overload detection and remediation in its microservices. Its solution, Hodor, provides an adaptive solution that works out of the box with no configuration. It is a platform-agnostic mechanism to run overload detectors and load shedders inside the monitored process that samples load and sheds traffic from within the application's processing chain.
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Scaling Video Quality Measurements at Netflix with Cosmos
Netflix relies heavily on measuring perceptual video quality for different business purposes. As metrics evolve and become part of more workflows, their measurement tool needs to scale too. Netflix recently described how a new video quality measurement workflow was implemented using Cosmos microservices to foster innovation in quality metrics, with good scalability and loose data coupling.
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Microservice Calls’ Critical Path Analysis with Jaeger and Uber’s CRISP
Discovering which services need to be optimised to reduce end-to-end latency in a microservices-based system can be challenging because call graphs may be too complicated to read. Uber described an open-source tool called CRISP built to solve this problem by finding the critical paths in these graphs. These paths identify those operations whose optimisation benefits the overall system.
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Dapr Joins CNCF Incubator: Q&A with Yaron Schneider
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) recently announced that it accepted the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) as a CNCF incubating project. This statement follows an earlier announcement by Dapr, announcing the formation of the Dapr project's Steering and Technical Committee (STC).
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Domain-Driven Design with Value-Added Services and Domain Gateways at SoundCloud
Two articles were recently published to describe SoundCloud’s service architecture evolution towards implementing Domain Gateways, with a stop at Value-Added Services on the way. The authors describe how these Domain-Driven Design-based patterns helped reduce duplications and homogenise business and authorisation logic.
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Micronaut 3.0 Delivers Significant Changes Adaptable for Future Development
Object Computing, Inc. has released Micronaut 3.0 featuring the removal of a default reactive streams implementation, a change in annotation inheritance, and HTTP compile-time validation. This release was a culmination of work to resolve design faults of the past to make the framework more intuitive and adaptable to future requirements.
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Quarkus 2.0 Delivers Continuous Testing, CLI and Supports Minimal JDK 11
Red Hat has released Quarkus 2.0 with new features such as continuous testing, a new CLI, and developer services. This version upgrades its core as well, moving to JDK 11, Vert.x 4.0 and MicroProfile 4.0, promising to have a seamless upgrade experience. InfoQ reached out to the Quarkus’ core team members to provide a brief description on the benefits of each newly-added feature in Quarkus 2.0.
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Distributed DevOps Teams: Enabling Non-Stop Delivery
Keeping in touch and being cohesive as a distributed team is a challenge many face. Assigning stories from a shared backlog helped a distributed team in doing non-stop delivery, as did giving all members of the team the authority to promote to production and back-out code at need. You need to give attention to the architecture to prevent creating similar or duplicate micro-services.
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The Road to Quarkus 2.0: Continuous Testing
Quarkus continues its effort to make Java enterprise applications as efficient as possible, both from the perspective of its run time, resources, start and terminate time and now also from the development of applications. Quarkus 2.0 will enrich its dev mode with the continuous testing capability. Stuart Douglas, the senior principal engineer working on it, provides us with an overview.
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Jolie - a Service-Oriented Programming Language for Distributed Applications
The Jolie programming language recently attracted the attention of developers on Hacker News. Jolie is a service-oriented language that encourages developers to model distributed software as composable services whose orchestration is described separately from communication protocols (SOAP, HTTP, XML-RPC) and deployment architecture. Jolie adopts services as a first-class concept.
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Alibaba Cloud Uses Dapr to Support Its Business Growth
In a recent blog post, Sky Ao, a staff engineer at Alibaba Cloud, details how Alibaba Cloud uses the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) to support its business growth. As Alibaba's business rapidly grows while also purchasing other companies, a clear need to support multiple programming languages across varying cloud environments rises. To support this need, Alibaba chose to use Dapr.
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Vamp Announces Results of State of Cloud-Native Release Orchestration 2021
Vamp.io, a company providing a release automation platform, recently published the State of Cloud-Native Release Orchestration 2021 survey results. Results show that Kubernetes and microservices are popular, and high-risk release strategies are still being used.
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Dropbox Reveals Atlas - a Managed Service Orchestration Platform
In a recent blog post, Dropbox revealed Atlas, a platform whose aim is to provide various benefits of a Service Oriented Architecture while minimizing the operational cost of owning a service. Atlas' goal is to support small, self-contained functionality, saving product teams the overhead of managing a full-blown service, including capacity planning, alert setup, etc.