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How Apache Pulsar is Helping Iterable Scale its Customer Engagement Platform
In this article, author Greg Methvin discusses his experience implementing a distributed messaging platform based on Apache Pulsar.
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Using a DDD Approach for Validating Business Rules
If the goal is to create software applications that emulate the behavior of domain experts, then the challenge is in capturing and implementing the business rules. This is more a factor of good knowledge management than it is raw coding ability. Following techniques from Domain-Driven Design can provide a structure for effectively validating and implementing business rules in a system.
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Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report—April 2020
An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2020, with a focus on fundamental architectural patterns, framework usage, and design skills.
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Enterprise API Management: Q&A with Book Author Luis Weir
In the Enterprise API Management book, Luis Weir provides technology-agnostic strategies that organizations can implement to drive more predictable outcomes. The topics that Weir covers in this book include the Business Value of APIs, Business-Led API Strategy, API-Led Architectures, API-Architecture Styles, API Life Cycle and more.
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SLOs Are the API for Your Engineering Team
SLOs provide a simple common language for evaluating risk in terms of error budgets. SLOs save everyone involved both time and energy, which you can redirect toward more important things, like keeping your customers happy.
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Waste Not, Want Not: A Simplified Value Stream Map for Uncovering Waste
This article describes a simplified form of Value Stream Maps that makes it easy to visualize bottlenecks and inefficient processes in the software delivery lifecycle. It focuses on the two forms of Lean waste defined as Inventory and Waiting.
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Obscuring Complexity
One of the most important things that software architects do is manage the complexity of their systems in order to mitigate release disruption while maintaining sufficient feature velocity. When we cannot reduce complexity, we try to hide or shift it. Software architects tend to manage that complexity with the time-honored strategies covered in this article.
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How Do We Think about Transactions in (Cloud) Messaging Systems? An Interview with Udi Dahan.
Do today's cloud-based messaging services have different transactional support than those that preceded it? If so, what are the implications? In this interview with distributed systems expert Udi Dahan, we explores the question.
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Application Integration for Microservices Architectures: A Service Mesh Is Not an ESB
A service mesh is only meant to be used as infrastructure for communication between services, and developers should not be building any business logic inside the service mesh. Other frameworks and libraries can be used to implement cloud native enterprise application integration patterns.
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The Many Flavors of “Low-Code”
While the low-code hype often tells how "citizen developers" can create enterprise applications without the need to code, these platforms can serve an important role for professional developers.
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Monitoring and Managing Workflows across Collaborating Microservices
This article argues that you need to balance orchestration and choreography in a microservices architecture in order to be able to understand, manage and change the system.
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Q&A on the Book Reinventing Jobs
The book Reinventing Jobs by Ravin Jesuthasan and John W. Boudreau provides a framework to understand and optimize the increasingly rapid evolution of work and automation. The framework explores four steps: deconstruct, optimize, automate, and reconfigure; it can be used to bundle work into jobs and create optimal human-machine combinations.
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The BPM Renaissance
Building Scalable Business Automation with Microservices
