The author of this post discusses the debate betweenmonolithic vs. microservices, and howthe real issue is whether distributed system architecture is worth the developer's time and cost overheads. The article highlights that we live in a world of virtualization andmost servers are a lot bigger and .. read more  

GitHub's newKafkarelaterepository provides developers with an easy way to integrate Kafka with GitOps principles for CI/CD. Learn about best practices for Kafka testing with Github Actions, simulate a Kafka cluster and validate it in a production environment without compromising credentials with th.. read more  

Engineers use the term "postmortem" to reflect on incidents and mistakes, although the name can bescary. Postmortems help us learn from mistakes and prevent future incidents. It is essential to establish the level of incident and ask questions like how to improve observability and prevent similar i.. read more  

Atul Gawande's Checklist Manifesto applies to software engineering, where using checklists can increase efficiency and consistency in executing complex tasks under pressure. Though checklists may seem mundane, they eliminate common mistakes and encourage focus on important but easily overlooked task.. read more  

The blog post describes how ClickHouse Cloud was builtin under a yearusing anunconventionalplanning process. The team prioritized simplicity and ease of use, and built the product on a shared everything architecture with separated storage and compute. The article also delves into the design and ar.. read more  

Kubernetes is likea cookie business with logistic managementof running applications. It uses pods, replication controllers and services to manage and scale containers. Kubernetes abstracts underlying hardware and allows you to focus on the application rather than managing individual machines. Servi.. read more  

Azure Monitornow supportssyslog collection for Linux nodes in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. Enabling syslog collection allows users to troubleshoot and improve observability across a variety of sources. Syslog collection is natively available in Azure Monitor and can be accessed in the Az.. read more  

AWS IAM Identity Center allows external identity stores like Google Workspace (previously G Suite) to be used for accessing AWS accounts, reducing the need for long-lived credentials. This blog post walks through the steps to set up Google Workspace as an external identity provider for AWS IAM, inc.. read more  

Google Cloud provides multi-layer security to protect user data by allowing administrators to control session length configuration parameters. Managing session length is essential to ensure time-bound access to Google Cloud services after successful authentication. Google Cloud session management o.. read more  

Google Cloud introducesPathway Language Model (PALM) API, a large language model that responds tonatural-sounding promptsand returnssensible prose. PALM API can be used by developers to build top-quality content generation chatbots and other applications. Along with PALM API, Google also showcased .. read more