Month: September 2020

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AWS provides various Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, including a broad choice of Graviton2 processor-based, which allow customers to optimize their workloads on performance and costs. The latest addition to the Graviton2-based instances is the low cost burstable general-purpose T4g instances.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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Conducting load tests against APIs and websites can both validate performance after a long stretch of development and get useful feedback from an app in order to increase its scaling capabilities and performance. Engineers should avoid creating “the cathedral” of load testing and end up with little time to improve performance overall. Write the simplest possible test and iterate from there.

By Guillaume Corre

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CNCF released their second quarterly technology radar focused on Observability. The goal of the radar is to “share what tools are actively being used by end users, the tools they would recommend, and their patterns of usage” when adopting cloud-native technologies.

By Hrishikesh Barua

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Matt Heath and Suhail Patel explain how Monzo team builds, operates, observes and maintains the banking infrastructure. They talk about how they compose microservices to add new functionality, Monzo’s culture, deployment and incident tooling, monitoring practices and how they share knowledge effectively.

By Matt Heath, Suhail Patel

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Crystal Hirschorn outlines how Condé Nast practices Chaos Engineering, where this fits within the already established testing and verification ecosystem, and what emergent practices and tools are on the horizon. Last but not least, she covers how to build up an organization’s true superpower: Human Resilience.

By Crystal Hirschorn

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Lisa van Gelder tells stories about how she debugged teams at three companies – Stride, Bauer Xcel & Meetup, and the surprising and unintentional consequences of not giving teams what they need to be successful: Mastery, Autonomy, Purpose and Safety. She shares practical examples of how to diagnose and change the teams.

By Lisa Van Gelder

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In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jeff Jacobson.

By Jeff Jacobson

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InfoQ Live brings together world-class practitioners, such as John Willis, Senior Director in Red Hat’s Global Transformation Office, and Sarah Wells, Technical Director for Operations and Reliability @FT, to share their valuable insights and practical advice on software engineering leadership.

By Adelina Turcu

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Artificial Neural Networks offer significant performance benefits compared to other methodologies, but often at the expense of interpretability. Black box algorithms have precipitated a number of high-profile controversies arising from the inability to understand their inner workings. The efforts seeking to provide more transparency in this regard is referred to as Explainable AI (XAI).

By Lloyd Danzig

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Adaptive architecture is a feature of agile software development and is also a source of competitive advantage in the fashion industry. Nike’s collaboration with Virgil Abloh on “The Ten” is an example of how these principles play out.

By Gabriel Sampaio