InfoQ Articles

JULY 11, 2024

This article explores JDK 21's virtual threads, comparing their performance with Open Liberty's thread pool. It covers key findings like throughput, ramp-up times, and memory footprint. Despite advantages, virtual threads showed unexpected performance issues, especially in CPU-intensive workloads.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This article focuses on self-hosted LLMs and how to get the best performance from them. The author provides best practices on how to overcome challenges due to model size, GPU scarcity, and a rapidly evolving field. By Meryem Arik

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

In this article series, we take readers on a journey of discovery and provide a comprehensive overview and in-depth analysis of many key aspects of cell-based architectures, as well as practical advice for applying this approach to existing and new architectures. By Rafal Gancarz

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Cloud Computing 102

InfoQ Articles

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In this article, I want to inspire you to grab the opportunity to get your voice and vision on the table, and show you that the demoscene is not only for mathematical wizards. The demoscene is a vibrant, creative subculture where you can use mathematics, algorithms, creativity, and a wee bit of chaos to express yourself.

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Vision 104

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

This article discusses strategies for approaching your role as a senior member of your organization. As engineers move into more senior positions such as Staff Engineer, Architect, or Sr Tech Lead roles, their knowledge and experience is often applied across the system. By Laura Maguire

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Innovation 86

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In this article, we will quickly dive into.NET Aspire and illustrate how you can orchestrate next-generation distributed applications. Running, composing, and debugging distributed applications on the local developer machine can be difficult, error-prone, and time-intensive. By Thorsten Hans.

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AUGUST 14, 2024

This article examines these approaches, using SQLite as an example, and introduces a third option: Chicory Wasm runtime. Developers typically choose between porting the code or dynamic linking to run native code on the JVM.

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APRIL 8, 2024

InfoQ encourages software practitioners and domain experts to submit full-length technical educational articles. By InfoQ

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MARCH 14, 2024

This article represents the talk, which will start with an introduction to Lambda itself to outline the key concepts of the service and its fundamentals, which will facilitate a deep dive into the understanding of the system.

Cloud Computing 104

Cloud Computing 104

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JULY 15, 2024

In this article, Bernd Ruecker explores the importance of long-running processes in various applications, particularly in distributed systems. The contents of this article were presented during QCon London 2024. The contents of this article were presented during QCon London 2024. By Bernd Ruecker

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JULY 8, 2024

In this article, Sara Bergman shares tips, tricks, and advice on architecting software for a greener future. Sara has been discussing this topic for several years. By Sara Bergman

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AUGUST 15, 2024

This article delves into understanding how to manage cloud waste. The 2024 "State of FinOps" survey results of the FinOps Foundation mentioned that organizations' top priorities have shifted to reducing cloud waste or unused resources. By Abhishek Jain

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Cloud Computing 98

InfoQ Articles

JUNE 20, 2023

This article shares insights into learning eBPF as a new cloud-native technology which aims to improve Observability and Security workflows. You’ll learn how chaos engineering can help, and get an insight into eBPF based observability and security use cases.

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Monitoring 117

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MARCH 25, 2024

In this article Diwan shared how the Netflix membership team does distributed systems: the architecture bets, technology choices, and operational semantics that serve the needs of Netflix’s ever-growing member base. By Surabhi Diwan

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

This article covers some of those pitfalls, and provides guidance on how they can be avoided. Knowing about potential software architecture pitfalls can help teams by keeping them away from tempting paths that will not take them where they want to go. By Pierre Pureur, Kurt Bittner

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This article is about curating a developer experience, it shares experiences and learnings from implementing DevEx and ideas on what platform engineers can do for development teams that use platforms.

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MAY 21, 2024

This article describes an experiment that sought to determine if no-cost LLM-based code generation tools can improve developer productivity. The experiment evaluated several LLMs by generating unit tests for some open-source code and measuring the code coverage as well as the manual rework necessary to make the tests work.

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MARCH 6, 2024

This article shows the importance of monitoring service expenses, revising default settings, and understanding operational constraints, considering limitations like reduced flexibility and observability. The rising popularity of managed relational databases brings hidden costs and informed decisions are crucial for optimal use.

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Monitoring 105

InfoQ Articles

APRIL 10, 2024

This article focuses on the increasing adoption of data-driven testing in Java enterprise applications and sheds light on the Data and NoSQL Jakarta specifications.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In this article, we discuss some of the.NET Trends for 2022, divided into four stages of adoption. Every year, all InfoQ editors invite seasoned developers and practitioners from the industry to discuss the current trends in the entire software development landscape. By Arthur Casals, Jonathan Allen, Edin Kapi?,

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JULY 2, 2024

In this article, Senior Engineering Manager and AWS Serverless Hero Sheen Brisals examines how the characteristics of serverless such as optimization, robust availability and scalability influence us to think in a new way of architecting and evolving modern applications as set pieces, a concept from moviemaking.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

In this article, we address the most contentious and misinterpreted parts of the SemVer standard, i.e backward compatibility and breaking changes.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

In this article, we present a practice we use to assist agile teams in reaching their quality goals and share our experience. Even skilled and motivated agile teams sometimes fail to achieve their own software quality goals. The practice is about paying constant attention to specific metrics.

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Agile 98

InfoQ Articles

MARCH 21, 2023

This article describes a framework for making architectural decisions using three building blocks: The company's own Technology Radar; Technology Standards; and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs). By Grygoriy Gonchar

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APRIL 30, 2024

In this article, we show what Git provides for account configuration, its limitations, and the solution to switch accounts automatically based on a project parent directory location. Git is a popular tool for version control in software development. It is not uncommon to use multiple Git accounts. By Artur Ampilogov

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JANUARY 25, 2023

In this article, Rogerio Robetti discusses the challenges in auto-scaling stateful storage systems and proposes an opinionated design solution to automatically scale up (vertical) and scale out (horizontal) from a single node up to several nodes in a cluster with minimum configuration and interference of the operator. By Rogerio Robetti

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The challenges in building modern, reliable, and understandable distributed systems continue to grow, and cell-based architecture is a valuable way to accept, isolate, and stay reliable in the face of failures.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This article shows why we must design, implement and operate our delivery pipelines (the means of turning ideas into products in the hands of users) as we would any other product or service: by adding a “product mindset’.

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JULY 22, 2024

The main objective of this article is to delve into the technical complexities and strategic adjustments undertaken by Trainline.

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Digital 93

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JUNE 27, 2024

This article explores the key dimensions of Ownership and whether a Human is involved. Good interface design is a complex engineering challenge with many dimensions. By George Panagiotopoulos

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JULY 11, 2022

In this article, the author explains how to use Tensorflow.NET to build a neural network. TensorFlow is an open-source framework developed by Google scientists and engineers for numerical computing. TensorFlow.NET is a library that provides a.NET Standard binding for TensorFlow. By Robert Krzaczy?ski.

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APRIL 7, 2023

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. By Thomas Betts, Blanca Garcia Gil, Daniel Bryant, Eran Stiller, Vasco Veloso, Tanmay Deshpande

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Artificial Intelligence 145

InfoQ Articles

AUGUST 19, 2024

This article describes how we developed and launched the Threads app at Meta last year. In Jan 2023, we received word that we’d need to build a microblogging service to compete with Twitter in a couple of months. A small team was assembled to take on that challenge, and we shipped a new social network in July. By Zahan Malkani

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This article calls out three collaboration anti-patterns that appeared in more than one organisation, some of the symptoms they cause and some thoughts on how to go about counteracting them.

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Agile 125

InfoQ Articles

JANUARY 31, 2024

This article focuses on implementing data residency strategies for a positive stakeholder experience. It underscores the need to diversify data locations, driven by motivations like disaster recovery and geo-redundancy.

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MAY 12, 2023

This article presents a guided approach to starting your next architecture modernization project with a Domain-Driven Discovery (DDD), illustrated with a medical supply company that is migrating its core systems to the cloud. Successful projects start with robust discovery.

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Healthcare 129

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In this article, we will learn about the main concepts of AWS Step Functions and apply those to build a workflow for a sample business process: Order Fulfillment. AWS Step Functions use a state machine to represent the workflow. A workflow consists of a set of tasks, each of which represents a discrete activity to be performed.

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