Architecture & Design Round-Up

A Collection of Top Architecture & Design News, Articles, Presentations & Podcasts January 2023 [InfoQ] Architecture & Design Round-Up Sponsored by [Humanitec] [Latest Content](#latest-content), [Top Viewed Content](#top-viewed-content), [Top News](#news), [Top Articles](#top-articles), [Top Podcasts & Presentations](#top-presentations-and-interviews) In this special newsletter we bring you up to date on all the new content and news related to Architecture & Design on InfoQ. We are also maintaining a portal page for this content on InfoQ at: [(. [] Latest Content on InfoQ [A Skeptic’s Guide to Software Architecture Decisions]( (articles, Jan 05, 2023) [Microfrontends Anti-Patterns: Seven Years in the Trenches]( (presentations, Jan 06, 2023) [The InfoQ eMag - The InfoQ Trends Reports 2022]( (minibooks, Dec 25, 2022) [Uber Reduces Logging Costs by 169x Using Compressed Log Processor (CLP)]( (news, Nov 28, 2022) [How SeatGeek Successfully Handles High Demand Ticket On-Sales]( (presentations, Dec 29, 2022) [2022 State of Platform Engineering Report]( Platform engineering is the next evolution of DevOps, but what does platform engineering actually mean? What are the required skills to become a platform engineer? How much does a platform engineer make? What does the tooling landscape look like? [Download this report to learn more](. Sponsored content [State of Platform Engineering]( [] Top Viewed Content on InfoQ [Microservices Integration Done Right Using Contract-Driven Development]( (articles, Dec 29, 2022) [Using Serverless WebSockets to Enable Real-Time Messaging]( (articles, Dec 01, 2022) [Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoints Integration Now in Public Preview]( (news, Nov 30, 2022) [Amazon Announces Preview of OpenSearch Serverless]( (news, Dec 10, 2022) [] Top News [AWS Announces GA of DocumentDB Elastic Clusters]( At the recent re:Invent conference, AWS announced the general availability of DocumentDB Elastic Clusters, a service that manages the elasticity and sharding for MongoDB workloads. [Microsoft’s Distributed Application Framework Orleans Reaches Version 7]( Microsoft Orleans, a .NET framework for building scalable distributed cloud applications, has been updated for .NET 7 and released as Orleans 7.0.0 on November 8th, 2022. The improvements in this release include better performance, simplified development dependencies and simplified identification schema for the grains, a unit of execution in Orleans. [Cloudflare Servers Share IP Addresses for Egress Traffic]( Cloudflare recently detailed how it manages its servers' egress traffic using "soft-unicast ". Soft-unicast allows multiple servers to share a single IPv4 address for their egress traffic while redirecting the response packets to the correct physical server. It provides a scalable, cost-efficient solution for Cloudflare to offer various products that require tagged egress IP addresses. [Java News Roundup: Spring Cloud 2022.0.0, Introducing SourceBuddy, Jarviz and Just]( This week's Java roundup for December 19th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, Spring Cloud 2022.0.0, point releases for other Spring projects, Open Liberty 22.0.0.13, Quarkus 2.15.1, Micronaut 3.7.5, Helidon 3.1.0, Hibernate 6.2.CR1, Eclipse Vert.x 4.3.7, point releases for Groovy, Camel 3.20, MicroStream joins Eclipse, Kotlin 1.8-RC2, and introducing SourceBuddy, Jarviz and Just. [AWS Previews VPC Lattice for Service-to-Service Communication]( To simplify networking for service-to-service communication, AWS recently announced the preview of Amazon VPC Lattice. The new capability of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) abstracts network complexity and creates a logical application layer network that connects clients and services across different VPCs and accounts. [] Top Articles [Moving to .NET 7 MSMQ Alternatives]( This article presents a few considerations on what the transition can look like from MSMQ to alternatives like RabbitMQ or the Azure Service Bus. [article]( [Going from Architect to Architecting: the Evolution of a Key Role]( This article explores the cultural change of moving towards shared architecture, and the role that the architect has evolved into. Teams might be struggling with the paradigm shift of ownership. [article]( [What is platform engineering? Learn more about the discipline of building Internal Developer Platforms]( This article explores the origins of the platform engineering discipline and examines the main focus areas of platform engineers. You'll also learn how platform engineering fits into the setup of a modern engineering organization and how it's a key component in most advanced development teams. [Read now](. Sponsored content [Internal Developer Platforms]( [Enabling Effective Remote Working - Principles and Patterns from Team Topologies]( This article shares ideas, principles, and practices from Team Topologies to help organizations approach their structures' design and evolution to better support interactions in remote working. [article]( [What Does Technical Debt Tell You?]( Technical debt is a popular metaphor for communicating the long-term implications of architectural decisions and trade-offs to stakeholders, but there are limitations to its usefulness. [article]( [] Top Podcasts & Presentations [An Observable Service with No Logs]( Glen Mailer discusses building and using event tracing to monitor a system. [Glen Mailer]( [How Starling Built Their Own Card Processor]( Rob Donovan and Ioana Creanga discuss what happens behind the scenes when one pays with a card, and how Starling built their own card processor, integrating traditional hardware with microservices. [panel]( [Scaling GraphQL Adoption at Netflix]( Tejas Shikhare discusses how Netflix migrated to GraphQL and some of the problems they had to solve scaling it. [Tejas Shikhare]( [Best Practices for API Quality and Security]( The panelists discuss how to improve quality and security in API design and management, what the biggest challenges are and how to address them. [panel]( [APIs at Scale: Creating Rich Interfaces that Stand the Test of Time]( Matthew Clark, Paul Caporn take a look at versioning, design patterns, handling different use-cases, supporting high-traffic moments, and the merits of different API types. [panel]( [Connect with InfoQ on Twitter]( [Connect with InfoQ on Facebook]( [Connect with InfoQ on LinkedIn]( [Connect with InfoQ on Youtube]( You have received this message because you are subscribed to the “Special Reports Newsletter”. To stop receiving this email, please click the following link: [Unsubscribe]( C4Media Inc. 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