27
Sep
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Are You Getting All You Can Out of Kubernetes?
If you feel underwhelmed by your Kubernetes implementation, it might be because you're not finished yet. Organizational limitations can stifle your K8s deployment.
23
Aug
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Let Microservices Communicate Cleanly With CQRS and Event Sourcing
Distributed systems are complicated. Any software architecture who has ever built a distributed system rarely denies this. But the question arises: how complicated are these systems? Many programmers and those responsible in companies have an exaggerated fear of them. After all, all computer programs are complicated, or they become so over time, even if fans of low-code ideas might sometimes dispute this. This article is not about whether distributed systems should be avoided in general (certainly not!), but about why they become complicated and how you can avoid this.
2
Aug
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Domain Driven DevOps Demystified
DevOps was set in motion in 2008 with the encounter of two people at an Agile conference in Toronto: Andrew Clay Shafer and Patrick Debois came together in a meetup on the topic of "Agile Infrastructure". Later, the term DevOps was coined for the better collaboration between developers and operations teams.
26
Jun
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Progressing Continuous Delivery
Progressive delivery decouples code deployment and feature release. This is enabled through well-proven techniques to provide product owners, delivery, and system reliability engineering (SRE) teams with significantly more control and flexibility in their value streams. High-performing delivery teams are driven by curiosity and this means ongoing customer experimentation. But how do we achieve this at pace and without destabilizing our systems?
8
Jun
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Decisions: How Many Clusters?, Authentication, and Encryption
Kubernetes is a container orchestrator that has rapidly gained popularity among developers and IT operations teams alike. While it started out as a tool to manage containerized applications, it has evolved into much more than that — Kubernetes is a microcosmos and it is “eating the world.”
2
May
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Kubernetes Tutorial: Multi-Tenancy, Purpose-Built Operating System
Kubernetes is a container orchestrator that has rapidly gained popularity among developers and IT operations teams alike. While it started out as a tool to manage containerized applications, it has evolved into much more than that — Kubernetes is a microcosmos and it is “eating the world.”
4
Apr
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Common Cloud Migration Pain Points and How to Tackle Them
This article discusses the challenges and pain points that may arise when migrating a legacy software application to the cloud from the ground up. I had the pleasure of being a part of such an adventure two years ago. The goal was to run a successful proof of concept by migrating a nearly thirty-year-old software application (along with additional services) to Azure and demonstrating its operational performance. It was a journey filled with pitfalls, despair, and new discoveries every day. In retrospect, it was a very instructive experience that you most likely don't want to miss out on in your life.
31
Jan
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Dev(Ops) Experience Cloud-Native
The growing market share of cloud systems clearly shows that an increasing number of software systems are being operated in the cloud. As a prerequisite, more and more developments are cloud-native. The term Dev(Ops) Experience Cloud-Native refers to "development for the cloud" and "deployment in the cloud." Sometimes it's difficult to tell whether something is more Dev or more Ops, which is why we talk about the Dev(Ops) Experience.
9
Nov
Why Web Development Should Take an Opinionated Approach
Software that stands the test of time is only as good as the process to build and maintain it. From ideation to maintenance, the processes should be understood and documented across your team, so that everyone works in the same way. The challenge here is how to define the process and ensure that people stick to it, through a team’s life cycles and change.
4
Oct
Agile Culture – Change
The first part of this article series dealt with the fundamental question of what culture is, how culture can be understood, and what impact culture has on the way we work in an organization. After this stocktaking, the second part deals with the question of how culture can be actively developed.