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Article: Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report - April 2023

InfoQ Articles

This article provides an overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2023, with a focus on what architects are designing for today.

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Build faster with Buck2: Our open source build system

Engineering at Meta

Buck2, our new open source, large-scale build system , is now available on GitHub. Buck2 is an extensible and performant build system written in Rust and designed to make your build experience faster and more efficient. In our internal tests at Meta, we observed that Buck2 completed builds 2x as fast as Buck1. Buck2, Meta’s open source large-scale build system, is now publicly available via the Buck2 website and the Buck2 GitHub repository.

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eBPF Explained: Why it's Important for Observability

Kentik

eBPF is a lightweight runtime environment that gives you the ability to run programs inside the kernel of an operating system, usually a recent version of Linux. That’s the short definition. The longer definition will take some time to unpack. In this post, we’ll look at what eBPF is, how it works, and why it’s become such a common technology in observability.

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The BEST Resources to Level Up Your Data Streaming Knowledge!

Confluent

All the best data streaming resources, tips, and guides to help you learn introductory concepts, streaming architecture basics, common tools and technologies, and more.

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Article: The Silent Platform Revolution: How eBPF Is Fundamentally Transforming Cloud-Native Platforms

InfoQ Articles

There is a silent eBPF revolution reshaping platforms and the cloud-native world in its image, and this is its story.

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Cloud Architecture Mistakes: The High Costs of a DIY Mindset

Dataversity

This is a five-part series about the costly mistakes organizations commonly make while building a cloud architecture. Part one explained how organizations moving to the cloud can quickly lose visibility and control over their data processing and detailed how to avoid that mistake. Part two looks at the ways doing it yourself can go wrong. What would […] The post Cloud Architecture Mistakes: The High Costs of a DIY Mindset appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Practical Steps for Enhancing Reliability in Cloud Networks - Part I

Kentik

When evaluating solutions, whether to internal problems or those of our customers, I like to keep the core metrics fairly simple: will this reduce costs, increase performance, or improve the network’s reliability? It’s often taken for granted by network specialists that there is a trade-off among these three facets. If a solution is cheap, it is probably not very performant or particularly reliable.

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Article: Rapid Startup of Your Cloud-Native Java Applications Without Compromise

InfoQ Articles

This article discusses the significance of startup time in cloud-native computing, highlighting challenges for JVM-based apps. It introduces Liberty InstantOn, which boosts startup times using checkpoint/restore technology, offering fast startup without compromising Java capabilities or facing static compilation trade-offs.

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Exciting new updates coming to Workflows in April

databricks

Databricks is excited to announce the release of several exciting new Workflows features that will simplify the way you create and launch automated.

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2022 Summer Intern Projects Article #3

DoorDash Engineering

DoorDash offers our summer interns the opportunity to fully integrate with Engineering teams to get the kind of real industry experience that is not taught in the classroom. This is the third blog post in a series of articles showcasing our 2022 summer intern projects. If you missed the first or second article the links are here and here. You can read about each project below.

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Putting the National Cybersecurity Strategy in Motion

Confluent

Confluent public sector CTO shares thoughts on how a data in motion approach can meet the goals of the National Cybersecurity Strategy.

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Article: When DevOps Meets Security to Protect Software

InfoQ Articles

Security can no longer be an afterthought in the software development process. Collaboration between security and development needs to happen early to be effective.

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Saving Mothers with ML: How MLOps Improves Healthcare in High-Risk Obstetrics

databricks

In the United States, roughly 7 out of every 1000 mothers suffer from both pregnancy and delivery complications each year1. Of those mothers.

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Do We Expect Too Much or Too Little of AI?

TDAN

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is garnering a lot of attention these days. Although impressive, it isn’t perfect and as a result, we run the risk of underestimating the potential impact of this swiftly improving environment. Recently, CBC published, We Asked an AI Questions about New Brunswick.

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Q&A on Building a Mortgage Company Customers Love with Stream Processing

Confluent

See how home mortgage company Mr. Cooper is using data processing pipelines to transform the customer experience in this Q&A with engineering VP Noble Job.

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Article: Migrate a RMI-Based Legacy Application to WebSocket

InfoQ Articles

Technical debt, especially in enterprise software, is a relevant problem that developers recurrently have to face. This article provides a use case related to removing technical debt in a large enterprise application based on an old fashioned Remote Method Invocation (RMI) protocol, and migrating it toward modern cloud-aware communication technologies.

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Databricks for GxP

databricks

What is GxP? GxP stands for "Good x Practices," where x refers to a specific discipline, such as clinical, manufacturing, or laboratory. The.

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Heavy Networking 673: Multicast DNS Gone Wild On Your WLAN

Packet Pushers

You know all those Apple and other IoT devices connected to your wireless network? Lots of them run apps that discover services on your network via multicast DNS (mDNS). All of that mDNS traffic can have a significant impact on your WLANs performance. On today's Heavy Networking we talk with guest Bryan Ward who has actually measured the impact of mDNS on a production wireless network to see what would happen if he let mDNS traffic run wild.

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Which SSE Can Replace the Physical Datacenter Firewalls?

CATO Networks

Most SSE solutions can support moving branch security to the cloud. But only a few can securely cloudify the datacenter firewall. This is because datacenter firewalls dont just address the need for secure Internet access, which is the main SSE capability. Rather, these firewalls are also used for securing WAN access, datacenter LAN segmentation and ensuring reliability and high availability to network traffic.

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Article: Assessing Organizational Culture to Drive SRE Adoption 

InfoQ Articles

SRE adoption is greatly influenced by the organizational culture at hand. This article describes how to assess the organizational culture in terms of production operations at the beginning of the SRE transformation.

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Preview the New Workspace Browser

databricks

To simplify navigating in Databricks, we are releasing a new workspace browsing experience. The new Workspace Browser makes it easier for you to.

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IPv6 Buzz 123: Why You Need An IPv6 Security Plan

Packet Pushers

Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast explores why you need a plan for IPv6 security. Even if you haven't actively deployed IPv6, you've got v6-enabled hosts on your LAN and remote workers connecting to you over v6 networks. We discuss key elements to consider in your plan, evaluating IPv6 support in security products and services, and more. Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast explores why you need a plan for IPv6 security.

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Cost Optimization Top of Mind for CIOs in 2023

Dataversity

The last three years have been a rollercoaster for CIOs. Leading expansive digital transformation in 2020 so organizations could stay afloat during the pandemic, CIOs now face tough questions around budgets, SaaS sprawl, and security in 2023. The current focus on cost optimization by the C-suite reflects not only the current economic situation but also […] The post Cost Optimization Top of Mind for CIOs in 2023 appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Speeding Up the Web: A Comprehensive Guide to Content Delivery Networks and Embedded Caching

Kentik

What is a CDN? Content distribution networks are a type of network that emerged in the 90s, early in the internet’s history, when content on the internet grew “richer” – moving from text to images and video. Akamai was one of the first CDNs and remains a strong player in today’s market. A high-level definition of a CDN is: A collection of geographically distributed caches A method to place content on the caches A method to steer end users to the closest caches The purpose of a CDN is to place th

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Claims Automation on Databricks Lakehouse

databricks

Introduction According to the latest reports from global consultancy EY, the future of insurance will become increasingly data-driven, and analytics enabled. The recent.

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Mastering the Art of Network Device Monitoring: A Beginner's Guide

Obkio

Learn about Network Device Monitoring to easily monitor performance of firewalls, routers & switches to identify problems like high CPU & bandwidth usage.

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Data Scarcity Challenges? Enter Generative AI

Dataversity

Data has been one of the most important talking points in business for the last few years, with good reason. The more data available and harnessed, the easier it is for companies to do everything from building products that solve real-world problems to enhancing marketing efforts effectively and identifying trends and patterns. Yet, laws and […] The post Data Scarcity Challenges?

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All in the Data: Empower Stewards with a Data Governance Toolkit – Part 2

TDAN

In part one of this column, I wrote about how organizations engage their data stewards as part of their formal data governance program. I mentioned that the data stewards do not always know how to behave as formal stewards.

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The Executive’s Guide to Data, Analytics and AI Transformation, Part 2: Identify and prioritize use cases

databricks

This is part two of a multi-part series to share key insights and tactics with Senior Executives leading data and AI transformation initiatives.

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Network Break 424: Amazon Invites Devs To Its Sidewalk Wireless Network; OneWeb Readies Global Satellite Internet Service

Packet Pushers

On today's Network Break podcast we cover Amazon opening its Sidewalk low-power IoT wireless network to developers, Cisco putting the expiration date on Prime Infrastructure, HAProxy adding QUIC support in its enterprise load balancer, Huawei touting revenue stability, and more IT news. On today's Network Break podcast we cover Amazon opening its Sidewalk low-power IoT wireless network to developers, Cisco putting the expiration date on Prime Infrastructure, HAProxy adding QUIC support in its en

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5-Step Checklist for SaaS Businesses to Enhance Cloud Security

Dataversity

Most SaaS businesses leverage the cloud to manage and store their data, applications, and workloads. With appropriate cloud security measures, SaaS businesses can ensure device and user authentication, resource and data access control, and privacy. This can help protect cloud-based infrastructure from malware, unauthorized access, and cyberattacks.

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The Book Look: Technical Writing for Quality

TDAN

Why would Technics Publications publish a book outside its specialty of data management? We published Graham Witt’s Technical Writing for Quality for two reasons. First, Graham is a world-renowned data modeler and the author of Data Modeling for Quality, and therefore many of his examples are in the field of data management.

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Announcing General Availability of Cluster Policies

databricks

We are excited to announce that cluster policies are now generally available. Why Databricks cluster policies? Databricks cluster policies enable administrators to: limit.

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HS044 Is Digital Transformation Bollocks ?

Packet Pushers

So much wasted marketing on Digital Transformation. Was it all bollocks or was there something real underneath the bombast and hype ? So much wasted marketing on Digital Transformation. Was it all bollocks or was there something real underneath the bombast and hype ?

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AI and ML to Become Critical for Procurement Teams in 2023

Dataversity

The procurement technology (ProcureTech) industry has come a long way since its humble beginnings. Just think, procurement professionals used basic tools like pen and paper and – at least more recently – long, winding spreadsheets. Today, the sector has transitioned to using highly cutting-edge technologies that drive strategic decision-making. These solutions have created a higher […] The post AI and ML to Become Critical for Procurement Teams in 2023 appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Architecture For Cloud Based Processing

TDAN

Data in the Cloud For a variety of motivations, many organizations have decided to place data and processing on the cloud. One approach to using the cloud is to just throw a lot of data onto the cloud. The cloud vendors advocate this approach.

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Lakehouse Playhouse: Introducing Apache Spark for Kids

databricks

Are your child’s coding projects getting bottlenecked by scalability issues? Maybe your 8-year-old’s after-school assignment executes just fine on their toy data set but.

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