Understanding Microsoft’s Open Service Mesh
Only a few years ago, when we talked about infrastructure we meant physical infrastructure: servers, memory, disks, network switches, and all the cabling necessary to connect them. I used to [...]
2 cloud architecture problems are still unsolved
As 2021 begins to appear on the horizon, most people will be happy to see 2020 in the rearview mirror. Despite the pandemic and all its chaos and uncertainties, 2020 [...]
How to refactor God objects in C#
In object-oriented programming (OOP), so-called God objects are an anti-pattern because they violate a number of good design principles. God objects are objects of classes that know too much or [...]
Why MongoDB is ‘fundamentally better’ for developers
It takes a certain amount of chutzpah — OK, mountains of it — to invent a new kind of database and assume it will take over the world. Or maybe [...]
Microsoft breaks ranks with its own service mesh
Microsoft has announced that it will release its own open source service mesh — called Open Service Mesh (OSM) — and transfer it to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as [...]
Career roadmap: DevOps engineer
DevOps, a set of practices that combines software development and IT operations with the goal of shortening the development lifecycle and providing continuous delivery of high-quality software, is enjoying increased [...]
Is the carbon footprint of AI too big?
It’s no surprise that AI has a carbon footprint, which refers to the amount of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide and methane, primarily) that producing and consuming AI releases into the [...]
How to create drill-down graphs with highcharter in R
Drill-down visualizations can be a good way to present a lot of data in a digestible format. In this example, we’ll create a graph of median home values by U.S. [...]
OPA: A general-purpose policy engine for cloud-native
As your organization embraces the cloud, you may find that the dynamism and scale of the cloud-native stack requires a far more complicated security and compliance landscape. For instance, with [...]