Design user-centric products and continuously deliver your software to production while collecting and incorporating feedback the whole time? Easy peasy. Well, if you’re a software startup. What about everyone else in the real world? What gets in your way and… Read More ›
Coordination in distributed systems is hard. How do a series of networked processes share information and stay in sync with each other? Recently, the RabbitMQ team released a new type of queue that uses the Raft Consensus Algorithm to offer… Read More ›
Be still and wait. This was the best advice I heard in 2019, and it took until the end of the year for me to realize it. Usually, when I itch for a change, I go all in, right away. I’m… Read More ›
A lot of you are packaging code into container images before shipping it off to production. That’s cool. For many, this isn’t a one-time exercise at the end of a project; it’s an ongoing exercise throughout the lifespan of your… Read More ›
Automating deployment of custom code and infrastructure? Not always easy, but feels like a solved problem. It gets trickier when you want to use automation to instantiate and continuously update databases and middleware. Why? This type of software stores state… Read More ›
One of the defining characteristics of the public cloud is choice. Need to host an app? On-premises, your choices were a virtual machine or a virtual machine. Now? A public cloud like Microsoft Azure offers nearly a dozen options. You’ve… Read More ›
This week, Confluent announced that there’s now a free trial for their Confluent Cloud. If you’re unfamiliar with either, Confluent is the company founded by the creators of Apache Kafka, and Confluent Cloud is their managed Kafka offering that runs… Read More ›
