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My Top Ten Worst Scrum Anti-Patterns

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I recently was invited to a Scrum.org Webinar, and I picked a topic close to my heart: the worst Scrum anti-patterns. So, without further delay, here is my personal list of the meanest, baddest Scrum anti-patterns that will guarantee that your Scrum team will be kept shackles and perform well below its potential. #10: The Oversized Product Backlog The Product Backlog of your Scrum team comprises hundreds of entries, from user stories to ideas to hypotheses and experiments to documentation fragments; you name it. Dumping everything into the Product Backlog—probably in the name of transparency—poses a massive challenge for various reasons:

Adobe Document Services: Unpacking the October 2021 Release

Aggregated on: 2021-10-20 19:10:18

Earlier this month, the Adobe Document Services team released an update to our PDF Services API that specifically focuses on our Document Generation API. In this post, we’ll quickly go over these new features and how they can improve document generation workflows. We’ll also dive deeper into these new features and discuss them in future live streams as well. Release Notes Before we dive in, the latest release notes cover both migration steps (when required, today’s release does not), links to historical versions of the docs, as well as detailed change history. While we’re not talking about PDF Embed API today, that service has its own release notes page as well.

Data Versioning 101

Aggregated on: 2021-10-20 18:40:18

Data versioning is storing data as new copies after making changes to them so that it is possible to have different versions of such data and retrieve specific versions later. Each version of the data represents a change in the structure, contents, or condition of the data. A new version of a dataset may be created when an existing dataset has been reprocessed, corrected, or updated with more data. In short, data versioning is a means to track changes associated with data. For example, let’s say a dataset that contained a list of all the countries of the world was stored in a database up to 1990. Starting from the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, it might be necessary to update or reprocess the dataset and any conclusions that resulted from it. After all, several countries have been created since 1990.

Building a Real-Time Data Warehouse With TiDB and Pravega

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Companies with a lot of data rely on data warehouses for data processing and analytics. To achieve business agility, offline data warehouses are no longer sufficient, and real-time data warehouses are gradually taking over. Currently, real-time data warehouses often use Apache Flink to consume data from Apache Kafka and stream data into a database. However, because Kafka doesn't persist data in disks, in extreme cases, data is lost. After researching the databases and storage systems on the market, we found a more efficient and accurate real-time data warehouse solution: Pravega + TiDB.

Ensure Quality Code Without Sacrificing Development Speed

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The Outdated Iron Triangle When it comes to software development, what is quality? Is it the elegance of the code? Is it how well the software performs once deployed and operating at scale? Quality is all of that and more. Ultimately, quality software is defined by three simple measures. First, it works as planned. Second, it performs well within the scope of identified use cases. And third, it has a low rate of defects which means that the software produces very few, or no, errors when a user executes one of the application’s use cases. Many development organizations utilize a classic approach, such as the Iron Triangle, to influence quality. They either reduce scope, extend the delivery schedule, or throw more engineering resources at development. But none of those ultimately guarantees quality. Even if you limit the scope to a single function or use case, take an extra year to improve the efficiency of the code, and hire a hundred more developers, the quality of the finished application can still be poor.

How To Secure MySQL 8 With SSL/TLS on Ubuntu 20.04

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This tutorial will show you how to secure MySQL connections with SSL/TLS on Ubuntu 20.04. Prerequisites A server running Ubuntu 20.04. A root password is set up on your server. Install MySQL 8 Server By default, MySQL server version 8 is included in the Ubuntu 20.04 default repository. Run the following command to install it.

What’s New in NodeJS v16?

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A week ago, the Node js latest version 16 had been rolled out, and it’s already making some vast headlines about it in our NodeJS developer community. Many new features have been introduced; however, mainly if you are a user of NodeJS 15, the new features are more like an upgrade to the last version and moving in the direction of the LTS branch. In other words, it can imply that it has become the bridge between Node 15 and the future version of NodeJS, Long term support Release.

Extending the Salesforce CLI with a Custom Plugin

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As more services move to the cloud and DevOps methodologies continue to evolve, more and more developers are getting comfortable with working in the terminal. Whereas traditional CLI commands like grep and cat are well-known tools for achieving small goals, more complicated tasks require more robust tooling. Nowadays, CLI programs come with richer interactive experiences. One such program is the Salesforce CLI, the command-line interface for Salesforce DX. It’s a CLI that helps simplify common operations when building an application for Salesforce developers. The Salesforce CLI itself is built on top of oclif—also from Salesforce—which is an open-source framework for building command-line interfaces. Oclif is written in TypeScript, and it has a very robust community supporting it. Best of all, it has an architecture that prioritizes plugin support, which enables users to extend the CLI for their own needs.

Cloud-Native 5G, MEC and OSS/BSS/OTT Telco with Apache Kafka and Kubernetes

Aggregated on: 2021-10-20 16:25:18

This post shares a slide deck and video recording for architectures and use-cases for event streaming with the open-source frameworks Kubernetes and Apache Kafka in the Telco sector. Telecom enterprises modernize their edge and hybrid cloud infrastructure with Kafka and Kubernetes to provide an elastic, scalable real-time infrastructure for high volumes of data. Demonstrated use cases include building 5G networks, NFV management and orchestration, proactive OSS network monitoring, integration with hybrid and multi-cloud BSS and OTT services.

Understanding Ransomware and How To Protect Against It?

Aggregated on: 2021-10-20 15:55:18

Ransomware has increasingly become a constant threat to all organizations. As we work on ramping up our defenses and building a strategic plan to counter cyberattacks, malicious actors launch even more sophisticated attacks, increasing the difficulty to defend. Ransomware is often designed to paralyze an organization, by expanding throughout the network. This threat costs organizations millions of dollars. In this blog, we are going to learn about a ransomware attack at length - how it works, how it’s launched, how to respond to it, and how to mitigate risk.

Using Binding Patterns in Ballerina

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In the previous article, we discussed the what and how of binding patterns in Ballerina. In this article, we will look into how binding patterns are employed in other language concepts in Ballerina. The two main Ballerina language concepts that employ binding patterns can be identified as:

4 Benefits of Continuous Deployment

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Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code Can You Make a Build in One Step?

AWS Communism: Part 1 (How We Cut Our Load Balancing Cost by More Than 96%)

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Recently, Cloudflare announced their object storage service Cloudflare R2 and got much buzz from the community. Essentially, they solve a huge pain point by removing egress traffic cost from the content hosting equation. However, there are use cases where it's not as easy to remove AWS' exact-but-not-cheap pricing from the game. In our series "AWS Communism", we want to show yet another technique for cutting your AWS bill – resource sharing.

Learn multithreading and async in 1 minute with Hyperlambda

Aggregated on: 2021-10-20 12:55:18

For everyone having done multithreading and async programming, it's fairly obvious that the amount of complexity required to (correctly) implement threading and async increases the cognitive requirements to understand the codebase to sometimes unfathomable amounts. Typically, this results in difficult to track down bugs, and over time what we often refer to as "spaghetti code" or "the big ball of mud". To put this into context, I'd like to put forth a statement in regards to this. Everyone who (falsely) believes they understand threading and async, don't understand threading and async!

Database Testing Made Simple, Efficient and Fast.

Aggregated on: 2021-10-20 07:00:35

In two previous articles (here and here) I argued for writing unit tests that target the database. I made the case that tests which run a single SQL statement from a Java backend should be considered unit tests. After all, they target an isolated unit of behavior and validate often complex logic in a different language (SQL). The Java code invoked by such a test merely acts as a transport layer. You need a running database to properly test such code. Mocking won’t do and neither should you relegate the queries to a few global scenarios in the top of the pyramid. They belong in the bottom of the pyramid and should be numerous, small and fast. Speed is a bottleneck if you reach for decent coverage of database code. It’s expensive to set up, run and maintain. All test code carries a maintenance liability. It loses its usefulness when the ecosystem around it changes, which is the second after its release. Database tests carry the extra burden of provisioning up-to-date schemas and test data. To ease the overall burden, always look to the following three: simplicity, efficiency, and speed.

5 JetBrains Plugins to Upgrade Your Built-In Git Support

Aggregated on: 2021-10-19 23:41:55

The Git plugin that comes bundled with all JetBrains IDEs is actually quite impressive, it's a full-blown Git client in its own right with almost all the features of a standalone client such as SourceTree, Tower, or GitKraken but built into the IDE. But there are even more features you can enhance your IDE’s Git support with - allow me to present to you 5 plugins that build on top of Git and supercharge it with cool new superpowers!

SOAP-Apache CXF Integration With Camunda Application

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The integration is done using Apache-CXF libraries with Camunda Spring boot as a dependency cxf-spring-boot-starter-jaxwsin the POM.xml file. The message being delivered to Camunda is modeled as XML- SOAP format and posted through SOAP-UI to Camunda. The Camunda application will receive POJO classes as a request. Prerequisites Eclipse (any version) with Maven capabilities Java 8+ SOAP-UI Camunda Installing Eclipse-IDE on Windows Visit the Eclipse Foundation website. Download the eclipse-inst-jre-win64.exe file and run the eclipse installer. Select Eclipse IDE for Eclipse committers and install. Creating a Maven Project in Eclipse IDE 1. Open the Eclipse IDE.

Binding Patterns in Ballerina

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The term "binding pattern" in Ballerina denotes a way of allowing different parts of a single structured value to have each of its parts assigned to separate variables at the same time given that all variables in the binding pattern are distinct. The concept of binding patterns makes it easier to extract information, especially from structured values in a much cleaner way. Shown below is a typical example of a binding pattern where fields name and age of the Person type record named tom are being matched and assigned to variables named firstName and personAge.

Data Center Failures and CRDB Replication

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Executive Summary The purpose of this document is to explain how replication of data within CockroachDB can be used to tolerate various failure scenarios and the impacts to query execution times. This simulation will explore the effect of different replication factors on a database cluster that spans multiple Availability Zones in multiple Regions. Overall, more replicas allows for more nodes to be down at the same time, while both R=5 and R=7 allow for the loss of an entire region. But, counterintuitively, R=7 only allows for a single Availability Zone to be lost, while R=5 allows for two.

7 Tips for Creating Easy-to-Validate PDF Signatures

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Validating digital signatures in PDF documents is a tricky business, and contrary to popular belief, there’s no one true validation algorithm. I’m not going to try to tell you how to validate PDF signatures—that’d be hard to do in a blog post anyhow. Instead, I’ll turn things around, and try to give you some advice on how to produce PDF signatures that are easy to digest (pun intended) for validators. Most of the content of this post is geared towards producing signatures for public workflows, i.e., cases where you don’t know who is going to need to validate your signature, so aiming for maximal interoperability is important. Most of the advice is still relevant for other, closed workflows as well, but it depends on the circumstances.

Watching the Requests Go By: Reconstructing an API Spec with APIClarity

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Reconstructing an OpenAPI Specification through Observation APIs are ubiquitous in modern microservice architectures. They make it easy to consume data from external apps and reduce the amount of code developers need to write. The general result is easier delivery of useful software products. However, the prevalence of APIs means they represent a large attack surface. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2022, API attacks will be the most common attack vector for enterprise web applications. Similarly, an IBM report found that two-thirds of data breaches could be traced to misconfigured APIs. Clearly, enterprises need to take a proactive approach to ensure their use of APIs is secure. Unfortunately, with the complexity of modern apps, third-party code dependencies, and a lack of documentation, API observability is a huge challenge. Often, enterprises simply don’t have any API specifications for their production apps. As a result, security-related misconfigurations go undetected, and apps use a variety of deprecated “zombie APIs” and undocumented “shadow APIs” in production.

Why Cloud-Native Apps Need Cloud-Native Ransomware Protection

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The statistics are chilling. Last year, there were nearly 300 million ransomware attacks. That’s a 72% increase during the pandemic. And each successful attack nets an average ransom of $300,000. That number represents a 171% increase during the same period. And the threat is escalating as attackers become more organized, more capable, and exploit new entry points, like mobile and edge devices. There are no guarantees in defending an enterprise cloud environment from ransomware. And if your applications are cloud-native, you have an elevated set of worries owing to the particular challenges of securing reliable point-in-time backups or check points that include data volumes as well as application configuration information (metadata). If you consider that emerging ransomware threats target the backups themselves — via the operator console or the physical devices — enterprises have some important choices to make about how they are going to reliably secure their data (and their users’ data) for business continuity and regulatory compliance.

Full-Stack Observability Essentials

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Observability and telemetry work together to correlate the health of individual systems with the overall health of the business, highlighting what’s going on within the complex systems, processes, and microservices of an entire tech stack and/or application, purely from the existing data streams collected. In this Refcard, explore full-stack observability essentials and how to adopt OpenTelemetry for increased flexibility.

Introduction to Helm Charts

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A package manager for Kubernetes can take care of the application packaging that is required for deployment on Kubernetes. It is an easy application installation and deployment on Kubernetes. Below are the resources you will need: Installing Helm Artifact Hub — Helm central point for package lookup Let's say we want to run MySQL on Kubernetes. First, search for MySQL on Artifact Hub, add its rep, and install:

How to Deploy a Spring Boot App on AWS Fargate

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In this blog, you will learn how to deploy a basic Dockerized Spring Boot application to AWS Fargate. AWS Fargate is a serverless AWS environment. Enjoy! 1. Introduction In a previous post, you learned how to deploy a basic Dockerized Spring Boot application on an AWS ECS Cluster. You learned about the different components like the ECR Docker repository, Task Definitions, the ECS Cluster itself and Services. It is advised to read that post first when these components are new to you. In this post, you will create and deploy the same Dockerized Spring Boot application. This time you deploy it to AWS Fargate. AWS Fargate is identical to AWS ECS Cluster, but this time you will not need to manage the EC2 instances yourself which is a great advantage! It is completely serverless.

Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services — Architect Perspective

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Financial institutions have embraced digital innovation at a recorded pace to adopt new ways of working, serving the financial needs of customers, and keeping the markets performing. Moreover, they have done so while still operating within their control frameworks and regulatory requirements needed to serve in all parts of the world. According to the 2020 Frost and Sullivan Global Cloud User Survey, “multi-cloud adoption has skyrocketed among financial firms in the past year, up nearly 70%. In addition, hybrid cloud adoption — already higher among financial firms than other industries — is up 8%. In response to the pandemic, financial firms are accelerating their cloud journeys, knitting together disparate IT environments (on‑premises, edge, and multiple clouds) as a foundation for digitalization.”

Here’s How You Can Purge Big Data From Unstructured Data Lakes

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Without a doubt, big data is becoming the biggest data with the passage of time. It’s going above and beyond. Here are some pieces of evidence as to why I said it. According to the big data and business analytics report from Statista, the global cloud data IP traffic will reach approximately 19.5 zettabytes in 2021. Moreover, the big data market will strike a figure of 274.3 billion US dollars with a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.2% by 2022. Plus, Forbes predicted that over 150 trillion gigabytes or 150 zettabytes of real-time data will be required by the year 2025. Also, Forbes found that more than 95% of the companies need some assistance for the management of unstructured data, while 40% of the organizations affirmed that they need to deal with big data more habitually.

The Reports of Perl’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

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Look, I get it. You don't like the Perl programming language or have otherwise disregarded it as "dead." (Or perhaps you haven't, in which case please check out my other blog posts!) It has weird noisy syntax, mixing regular expressions, sigils on variable names, various braces and brackets for data structures, and a menagerie of cryptic special variables. It's old: 34 years in December, with a history of (sometimes amateur) developers that have used and abused that syntax to ship code of questionable quality. Maybe you grudgingly accept its utility but think it should die gracefully, maintained only to run legacy applications. But you know what? Perl's still going. It's had a steady cadence of yearly releases for the past decade, introducing new features and fencing in bad behavior while maintaining an admirable level of backward compatibility. Yes, there was a too-long adventure developing what started as Perl 6, but that language now has its own identity as Raku and even has facilities for mixing Perl with its native code or vice versa.

After the Lift and Shift: 10 Steps to Optimize Your Cloud Efficiency

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The majority of enterprises and companies move into the cloud to leverage performance optimization and efficiently handle their workloads. Although cloud infrastructure proves to be efficient for most companies, there is always some room to further optimize your cloud efficiency by making minor improvement changes to your infrastructure. If you have just migrated your applications and workload into the cloud, then it’s time to optimize your cloud infrastructure by using our ten most performance-oriented steps below:

Free Resources To Become SRE/DevOps Engineer

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The purpose of this post is to centralize a set of free resources in order to present a way to understand and develop Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps skills. The content of this post is based on a return of several years of experience in the industry and a willingness to share content that may still be unknown to some people who would like to evolve in their career or open themselves to new opportunities. The purpose is not to explain what an SRE is or what the DevOps methodology is, but to describe probably the major aspect of these roles: Continuous Learning.

A Haunted House of NoSQL Horrors

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Halloween is that frightening time of the year when the veil between the well-ordered world of DevOps and the dark chthonic void of dev/null is thinnest. It's when chaos monkeys reign supreme and Site Reliability Engineers lock the doors and bolt the shutters. Today we will share with you true life NoSQL horror stories that ScyllaDB's engineers have seen and witnessed in the world of distributed systems. But be forewarned! What you are about to read may just make you shudder deep down to your very hyperthreaded cores.

Dive Deep Into TiKV Transactions: The Life Story of a TiKV Prewrite Request

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TiKV is a distributed key-value storage engine, which is based on the designs of Google Spanner, F1, and HBase. However, TiKV is much simpler to manage because it does not depend on a distributed file system. As introduced in A Deep Dive into TiKV and How TiKV Reads and Writes, TiKV applies a 2-phase commit (2PC) algorithm inspired by Google Percolator to support distributed transactions. These two phases are Prewrite and Commit.

Code Quality Software That Makes A Difference

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"There is no single question to what does the best quality mean? However, one proven approach is comparing how well a given code interacts with its neighbors in the same technical domain." In the world of software development, code quality often comes to mean a certain level of complexity in a code. The code that is too complex for users or developers to understand or use easily is considered low in quality. Sometimes this means that the code is too complex for even the programmers to understand.

How to Export All Modules to All Modules at Runtime in Java

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Due to the new module system, Java 9 does not allow an application by default to see all classes from the JDK, unlike all previous versions of Java. If we try to access some reserved module, we obtain an error like this:module <module-name> does not "opens <package-name>" to unnamed module. Everyone knows that we can solve this exception by using the JVM parameters --add-exports or add-opens, but what if we have more environments, and we don't want to have to change JVM arguments across these environments?

Externalizing Your Configurations With Vault for Scalable Deployments

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Table of Contents: Introduction The Solution Setting Up Vault Creating API Admin Policy Creating Read-Only user policy Creating Token attached with API read-only policy 1. Linux Shell Integration 2. Java Integration 3. Python Integration 4. Nodejs Integration 5. Ansible Integration Conclusion Introduction: To implement automation for microservices or applications deployed to a large number of systems, it becomes essential to externalize the configurations to a secure, scalable, centralized configuration store. This is necessary to be able to deploy the application in multiple environments with environment-specific parameters without requiring human intervention and without requiring modification to the core application during automated deployments, scaling, and failover recoveries. Besides the fact that manually managed configurations involve the risk of human error, they are also not scalable for 24x7 large-scale deployments, particularly when we are deploying several instances of microservices across various infrastructure platforms.

Angular/Spring Boot Feature Activation by Spring Profile

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Use Case Description Sometimes there is the use-case for a system that has the same basic requirements but needs some different logic in the core for different customers. The question is: Do the differences warrant a new microservice or do you put the logic in the same? Basically, the question is: A monolith or a zoo of microservices? The answer depends on the requirements and both extremes are probably wrong.

Azure Function - An Introduction

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Today, in this article we will discuss basic concepts of Azure Function. An Azure Function is a perfect example of Serverless architecture or computes service. Using Azure Function, we can run the event-based code without managing any infrastructure. Since the Azure function is a trigger-based service, so it always executes a script of a block of code in response to a variety of events. An Azure Function can also be used to achieve the decoupling, high throughput or response, reusability of code, etc. So, we will discuss the Azure Functions in all aspects in four parts. Today, in the first part of this article series, we will discuss the below topics:

AWS Audit and Security Strengthening

Aggregated on: 2021-10-18 23:22:22

After my previous article on AWS DDoS resiliency, I have decided to take on some of the AWS services which should be a part of any enterprise architecture. These services will help users in raising the posture of the overall security and help in meeting the core security and compliance requirements. AWS has already mentioned security as one of the pillars of their architecture framework and, to support that, AWS provides a wide range of features and services. As a consumer and business owner, we need to understand that it is more of a shared model where AWS is contributing by developing new features based on their rich experience and exposure of multiple domains, and it is up to us to figure out how we can reinforce our security framework using these capabilities.

How to Find the Right Collaborative Coding Tool for Remote Pair Programming

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Remote development is clearly here to stay, and when you need to collaborate with your team, starting a Zoom meeting or Hangout (er … Google meeting) is probably something you think of doing first. However, several developer-focused solutions that are much better suited for remote development are available today — but how do you know which one to pick? This guide will help you make that decision. As you read this guide, you might wonder how I know an awful lot about these solutions. The fact is, I work for Genuitec, which makes CodeTogether. What you see below is the result of our continuing study of this landscape to see how we stack up against our competitors and to decide what we need to focus on next. This guide aims to be factual, and in an effort to remain unbiased, I do not delve too deeply into the quality or capabilities of each feature.

Making Parameters Optional or Required in RESTful Web Services With Spring Framework | Spring Boot

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In the video below, we take a closer look at making parameters optional or required - RESTful Web Services with Spring framework | Spring Boot. Let's get started!

Easy Access to OAuth 2.0 Protected Resources With the Spring WebClient

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Spring Framework 5.0 introduced Spring WebClient as part of the WebFlux reactive web stack. WebClient is a reactive HTTP client that provides a functional and fluent API based on Reactor, allowing declarative composition of asynchronous non-blocking requests. No need to manage concurrency issues. Support for filter registration means it can intercept and modify requests, which can be used for cross-cutting concerns such as authentication, as demonstrated in this tutorial. The WebTestClient is also an HTTP client designed for application testing. With a testing interface wrapper to check replies, WebClient can be used to execute end-to-end HTTP testing and connect to a live server. It can also bind to a controller or application context and simulate requests and responses without requiring a running server.

REST Services With Apache Camel

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Microservices are becoming a very popular architectural style for developing greenfield applications and also for brownfield solutions. People are moving away from the monolith solutions due to added advantages like faster development and go-to-market, increased adoption of containerization and small teams, and a lighter codebase. You can use either Spring Boot, Quarkus, or Lagom frameworks to develop the REST services. I would like to show how we can use Apache Camel, a leading opensource integration framework, to write REST services easier and quicker using the REST domain-specific language (DSL).

Kotlin and FaaS, An Impossible Union?

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Some time ago, I read a post describing how to run a serverless Kotlin function on OpenFaaS. While the content is technically correct, I believe the concept itself is very wrong. Such posts can lead people to make ill-advised decisions: "because we can" is hardly a winning strategy. In this post, I'd like to first explain why the JVM platform is a bad idea for FaaS. Then, I'll proceed to propose alternatives to use Kotlin nonetheless. I deliberately chose not to link to the original post to avoid lending it any credibility. If you want to read it anyway, Google is your friend.

Automation-Driven Cloud Migration — An Introduction

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Cloud adoption is now increasing day by day. Today, nearly 30% of all IT budgets are allocated to adopting cloud computing services. To ensure the cost-effectiveness of such budget allocation, maximize your cloud migration processes through automation. Automating cloud migrations creates reliable, repeatable results across multiple environments to accelerate and simplify the entire migration process. Achieve cloud migration automation through a variety of tools to help you automate complex or time-intensive processes such as assessments, planning and design, integration, and deployment of infrastructure. Automation is the most reliable way to speed up the migration process while minimizing errors.

Postman Collection for Salesforce: Mock Servers and Code Snippets

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Introduction Whether you’re a longtime Salesforce developer or you’re new to the platform, Postman brings you all the tools you need to streamline the Salesforce API integration process to be easier and faster. In this article, we’ll show how mock servers and code snippets in Postman can help you build the core of your API-driven integration with Salesforce.

10 Books Every New Software Developer Should Read

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If you want to be a good software developer you have to be constantly learning. One of the best ways to learn is through reading good books. Here is a list of some of the best books new software developers can learn from. I’ve selected books with long-lasting advice that will remain relevant many years from now.

Keyword Search in Oracle Tables

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In the Oracle Database, we can easily find a text or keyword that we are looking for in tables within a schema. As we can search all tables in the schema, we can also search within a desired table belonging to that schema. As shown in the PL/SQL block below, the text/keyword that we will search is carried out over the varchar columns of the related tables.

Impact of AI on Software Development and Testing: Ethical and Productivity Implications of Intelligent Code Creation (ICC)

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AI technology is changing the working process of software engineers and test engineers. It is promoting productivity, quality, and speed. Businesses use AI algorithms to improve everything from project planning and estimation to quality testing and the user experience. Application development continues to evolve in its sophistication, while the business increasingly expects solutions to be delivered faster than ever. Most of the time, organizations have to deal with challenging problems like errors, defects, and other complexities while developing complex software. Development and Testing teams no longer have the luxury of time when monthly product launches were the gold standard. Instead, today’s enterprises demand weekly releases and updates that trickle in even more frequently.

Why We Micromanage

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No one likes to be micromanaged. And yet, it happens all the time. So why do we do it? What drives someone to be a micromanager? We micromanage for one of two reasons: We don’t trust the person to do the job well, or we don’t trust the person to get the job done on time.

Leveraging AWS for Backup and Disaster Recovery — 8 Best DR Practices

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Today, all companies are technology companies. Yet, Invenio IT reports that every 1 in 5 organizations does not have a disaster recovery plan. A company without a disaster recovery is prone to the type of IT disaster including server corruption, data center failures, cyberattacks, etc., that can disrupt the entire functioning of day-to-day operations. Most organizations back up their data on tapes, which are pretty expensive and difficult to maintain. The restoration process is also time-consuming and such solutions are often not viable for backups. AWS offers extremely reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions that are not just secure but are highly flexible and scalable. It is also extremely effective for better RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective) in disastrous situations.