InfoQ - DevOps

Integrating Continuous Load Testing into Slack Pipeline

Sergio De Simone — Fri, 06 May 2022 21:00:00 GMT

Slack has been working on making load testing a core concern for all engineers, not only those focusing on performance, and moving from a reactive approach to performance to a more integrated effort, say Slack engineers Shreya Ramesh and Melissa Khuat.

By Sergio De Simone

Presentation: Panel: Secure Systems

Shannon Morrison, Michael Fagan, Matt Jones — Fri, 06 May 2022 14:15:00 GMT

The panelists discuss the security for the software supply chain and software security risk measurement.

By Shannon Morrison, Michael Fagan, Matt Jones

Presentation: MLOps: The Most Important Piece in the Enterprise AI Puzzle

Francesca Lazzeri — Fri, 06 May 2022 12:45:00 GMT

Francesca Lazzeri overviews the latest MLOps technologies and principles that data scientists and ML engineers can apply to their machine learning processes.

By Francesca Lazzeri

How Removing Staging Environments Can Improve Your Deployments

Matt Saunders — Wed, 04 May 2022 18:00:00 GMT

Squeaky - a company which helps businesses to understand how visitors are using their website or web app without invading their privacy - have outlined why they don’t use a staging environment. They believe that this helps them to ship faster, and lower the number of issues found in production.

By Matt Saunders

Microsoft Rebrands its Data Governance Service to Microsoft Purview

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Wed, 04 May 2022 12:00:00 GMT

Recently, Microsoft announced Microsoft Purview, a new product branding bringing together the Azure Purview data governance service with various Microsoft 365 compliance solutions.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Static Java: Current State

Olimpiu Pop — Wed, 04 May 2022 05:44:00 GMT

Java’s long lasting motto of write once, run everywhere, seems to be adapting to the cloud native era. With the need for faster boot time and lower footprint, Static Java is gaining traction. To better understand the benefits and implications of adopting Static Java, InfoQ reached out to Dan Heidinga, principal software engineer at Red Hat.

By Olimpiu Pop

AWS Releases its Digital Twin Service IoT TwinMaker into General Availability

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Tue, 03 May 2022 12:00:00 GMT

During the recent AWS Summit in San Francisco, AWS announced the general availability of its IoT TwinMaker service – AWS IoT TwinMaker.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Article: Chaos Engineering and Observability with Visual Metaphors

Yury Niño Roa — Mon, 02 May 2022 14:00:00 GMT

This article introduces a new actor for visualising chaos engineering and observability: metaphors. It provides the conceptual foundations of chaos engineering and observability, presents a state of art of visualisation techniques available in the market and shows how treemaps, gauge charts, geocentric and city metaphors can enrich the spectrum of the visual strategies to observe the chaos.

By Yury Niño Roa

SoundCloud Chronicles the End of the Public API Strangler

Patrick Zhang — Mon, 02 May 2022 07:45:00 GMT

SoundCloud has successfully completed their migration journey using the Strangler pattern from a monolith application to a fully-fledged BFF.

By Patrick Zhang

Java News Roundup: JEP Updates for JDK 19, Project Loom, MicroStream 7.0, New Relic Java Survey

Michael Redlich — Mon, 02 May 2022 05:30:00 GMT

This week's Java roundup for April 25th, 2022, features news from JEPs targeted for JDK 19, Project Loom Build 19-loom+6-625, Spring Cloud 2021.0.2, Spring Tools 4.14.1, GraalVM 22.1.0, Micronaut 3.4.3, MicroStream 7.0, Quarkus 2.8.2, Apache Camel 1.9.0, and the New Relic State of the Java Ecosystem survey.

By Michael Redlich

Building an SLO-Driven Culture at Salesforce

Matt Saunders — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 20:00:00 GMT

Salesforce built a platform to monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs). The platform provided service owners with deep and actionable insights into how to improve or maintain the health of their services, to find dips in SLIs, to find dependent services that weren’t meeting their own SLOs, and overall provide a better understanding of customers’ experience with their services.

By Matt Saunders

Infrastructure as SQL on AWS: IaSQL is Now Open Source and SaaS

Renato Losio — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 06:22:00 GMT

IaSQL, the company behind a service that models AWS infrastructure using SQL, has recently announced that IaSQL is available as open source and software as a service.

By Renato Losio

Article: Getting Started to Quarkus Reactive Messaging with Apache Kafka

Alex Soto — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 12:00:00 GMT

How data is processed/consumed nowadays is different from how it was once practiced. In the past, data was stored in a database and it was batch processed for analytics. Apache Kafka is a distributed event store and stream-processing platform for storing, consuming, and processing data streams in real-time. In this post, we’ll learn how to produce and consume data using Apache Kafka and Quarkus.

By Alex Soto

AWS Releases the Second Version of Amazon Aurora Serverless with Independent Scaling

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 12:00:00 GMT

Recently, AWS announced the general availability of the second version of Amazon Aurora Serverless, an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration for Amazon Aurora. The second version is generally available for both Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL, featuring the independent scaling of compute and storage.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

QCon Plus, May 10th: Learn about the Latest Software Development Trends & Real World Best Practices

Ian Robins — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 12:00:00 GMT

The latest QCon Plus virtual event begins online in just over a week (May 10th). The online software development conference and learning path brings together innovative software practitioners who will share case studies and insights about real-world best practices and solutions in software development and tech leadership.

By Ian Robins