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Building High-Quality Software

DZone

I saw a company spending a nontrivial amount of time gathering all these statistics, asking people to constantly fill out gazillion JIRA fields, google spreadsheets, and so on, just to say at the end, “This component is in good shape, and this one is in bad.” First of all, I want to concentrate on software code quality (vs.

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The Real Problem with Software Development

O'Reilly

That statement nicely summarizes what makes software development difficult. If we’re serious about complexity, the complexity of building secure systems needs to be managed and controlled in step with the rest of the software, otherwise it’s going to add more vulnerabilities. Controlling complexity is.” That brings me to my main point.

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10 talks to look for at the 2018 O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London

O'Reilly Software

From chaos architecture to event streaming to leading teams, the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference offers a unique depth and breadth of content. We received more than 200 abstracts for talks for the 2018 O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London—on both expected and surprising topics.

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How to overcome the cloud observability wall

Dynatrace

You may be using serverless functions like AWS Lambda , Azure Functions , or Google Cloud Functions, or a container management service, such as Kubernetes. Many customers try to use traditional tools to monitor and observe modern software stacks, but they struggle to deal with the dynamic and changing nature of cloud environments.

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Questions for 2024

O'Reilly

I doubt that we’ll see strikes at major technology companies like Google and Amazon—but we’ve already seen a union at Bandcamp. That’s no doubt true; prior to its release as an open source project, Kubernetes was Google’s Borg, the almost legendary software that ran their core applications. Could this become a trend?

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ABAC on SpiceDB: Enabling Netflix’s Complex Identity Types

The Netflix TechBlog

By Chris Wolfe , Joey Schorr , and Victor Roldán Betancort Introduction The authorization team at Netflix recently sponsored work to add Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) support to AuthZed’s open source Google Zanzibar inspired authorization system, SpiceDB.

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. Trends in software architecture, infrastructure, and operations.