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DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report - July 2021
This article summarizes how we see the "cloud computing and DevOps" space in 2021, which focuses on fundamental infrastructure and operational patterns, the realization of patterns in technology frameworks, and the design processes and skills that a software architect or engineer must cultivate.
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Solving Mysteries Faster with Observability
At QCon plus, a virtual conference for senior software engineers and architects covering the trends, best practices, and solutions leveraged by the world's most innovative software organizations, Elizabeth Carretto discussed observability at Netflix and how their internal tool, Edgar, comes into play.
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Using the Plan-Do-Check-Act Framework to Produce Performant and Highly Available Systems
The PDCA (plan-do-check-act) framework can be used to outline the performance, availability, and monitoring to enable teams to ensure performant and highly available applications. These include infrastructure design and setup, application architecture and design, coding, performance testing, and application monitoring.
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Evolution of Azure Synapse: Apache Spark 3.0, GPU Acceleration, Delta Lake, Dataverse Support
At Microsoft Build 2021, Azure Synapse has announced significant improvements for its Apache Spark pool, its performance, and data querying and integration capabilities. This article outlines the improvements and provides the context.
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Compiled, Typed, Ruby-Inspired Crystal Language is Ready for Production - Q&A with Beta Ziliani
The Crystal language is ready for production, 12 years after inception. Crystal is compiled for performance, typed for safety, and Ruby-like for productivity. Due to the strong type inference, developers need only sparse type annotations. We interviewed the head of the Crystal team on the language tradeoffs, the present features and the language roadmap.
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Cloud Native and Kubernetes Observability: Expert Panel
InfoQ recently caught up with Observability experts to discuss several topics including fundamental questions about what Observability really entails, the misconceptions and challenges that the users are facing, the open standards that are influencing the industry in general and why there is more interest in this area off late.
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Site Reliability Engineering Experiences at Instana
With the popularity of distributed architectures, distributed databases, containers and container orchestrators, an approach that emphasizes automation and a culture of collaboration is a natural fit for modern day operations. Site Reliability Engineering takes engineering practices that have been established and proven in software engineering and applies them to the field of operations.
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Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report—April 2021
An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2021, with a focus on what architects are designing for today.
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eBay's UI Framework Marko Adds Optimized Reactivity Model - Q&A with Marko's Development Team
Marko, eBay's performance-focused UI framework, features optimization strategies that are now becoming mainstream (e.g., server-side rendering, progressive and asynchronous rendering, partial hydration). InfoQ discussed with the Marko development team how those performance strategies may differentiate Marko from other frameworks and future performance-minded initiatives in their roadmap.
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Boosting WebAssembly Performance with SIMD and Multi-Threading
Early implementations of WebAssembly's SIMD and multi-threading proposals show that WebAssembly is narrowing the gap with native performance, by using SIMD instructions and multicore CPUs. Significant performance improvements have been observed in compute-intensive tasks (machine-learning, bio-informatics, scientific computing).
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Improving the Performance of a Route Editor Using a Quadtree
A quadtree is a tree data structure that allows the user to partition a two-dimensional space and to quickly find the intersection of objects. In this article we show how we used it to improve the performance of our route editor.
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Piercing the Fog: Observability Tools from the Future
Visibility into those distributed systems and how they are performing is challenging. Despite all the observability tools available for site reliability, debugging remains incredibly difficult, and many SREs would agree that their debugging processes have only marginally improved. This article explores how observability for troubleshooting could be done from the user’s point of view.