The weather outside is not yet frightful, but it’s getting cold in the codebase! As winter descends and temperatures plunge, many software companies implement a Holiday code freeze over the holiday period. The theory makes sense. New code means new and enhanced features, but also the risk of serious new bugs. The period from Halloween…
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When developing software, debugging is essential. But users named debugging functions as the most common challenges associated with serverless architectures. Recently, several solutions have been introduced that claim to make debugging serverless functions easier (or just plain possible). While the solutions take a variety of different approaches, deciding whether you want to debug locally or…
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We all know of – or maybe work for — organizations that are phasing out old monolithic systems in favor of distributed systems with microservice architectures. And for good reason! Microservice architectures allow system components to be scaled independently; deployments are decoupled and continuous; and small, agile dev teams can work quickly, efficiently and in…
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There’s no doubt — Devops and the sheer scale of the software it enables have truly revolutionized the world of software development. Evolving from humble single-server beginnings two decades ago, it’s finally reached the point where we can build elastic software at scale, thanks to cloud and orchestration layers such as IaaS, containers, k8s (Kubernetes),…
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One day in 1997, my then-boyfriend, who was studying computer science, came home and said, “I had a good interview today.” “What does the company do?” I asked. “Not entirely sure,” he replied, “but it lets you see when your friends are surfing the net. And the cool part is that it sounds like an…
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Ever since the beginning of time, there have been two kinds of people: The left-brainers – methodical thinkers who use their logical and analytical skills to solve problems; and the right-brainers who tend to rely on feeling and intuition, are driven by inspiration and often think in a visual way.In today’s tech community, we often…
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Serverless is hot in the world of software architecture. Many vendors dedicate themselves to serverless, and of course, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft are heavily invested in it. But like any other hot technology, it has some drawbacks. In this post, I share a super-handy hack for those times when you need to build a…
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Setting TLS endpoints in Kubernetes can be a Sisyphean task. What if you could make it a ‘set and forget’ kind of task instead? Well, now you can. At Rookout, we use k8s to handle all of our services. We wanted to automate the process of adding new services that require SSL and a custom…
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Electron, the popular framework for building desktop apps, has much to recommend it: It allows developers to quickly build feature-rich desktop apps and deploy them directly to end-users. No wonder industry leaders like WordPress, Slack, and Discord use it to create the desktop versions of their browser-based apps. But while Electron is based on web…
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With the rise of cloud-oriented software stacks and development methodologies in recent years, use of Java Application Servers such as Tomcat and Weblogic has decreased. But it’s way premature to consign Java Application Servers to the list of outmoded technologies: Along with the many existing Java Application Server solutions that are still doing the jobs…
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