Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Microsoft has organized an Azure Open Source Day on March 7, 2023. A key focus of the event was to promote building Cloud-native applications applying Open source technologies along with Azure. This article highlights key takeaways from Azure Open Source Day 2023 sharing news, product updates, innovation stories, and more. #1 — Developer productivity with the open-source ecosystem With GitHub as a platform for sharing Open source projects, leveraging the ecosystem of products helps to improve developers’ productivity. The code-to-cloud path has been made easie ..read more

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Observing technology trends by analysts, research companies, and thought leaders provides a broader perspective. It not only helps software architects to understand the impact of technologies being adopted but also helps them build the right skill set for themselves or their team. This article synthesizes the top ten technology trends for 2023 and beyond based on broader research.  This article is in continuation to our previous article for 2022 — click here to read more. #1 — Artificial Intelligence Platforms & AI Services The rise of OpenAI’s C ..read more

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email AWS re:Invent 2022 (Nov 28 — Dec 2) has continued the tradition of being the most happening cloud computing technology event. While there were many sessions covering leadership, partnership, technology updates, case studies, and much more — this article focused on sharing key takeaways from the event for software architects. Reference [Open][Close] #1 —Asynchrony and Event-driven Architecture enable the global scale #2 — Workflow is an enabler and Serverless makes it simpler #3 — Enabling developer and architect’s productivity is the need of the hour ..read more

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Table of Contents [Open][Close] Why get CKA certified? What happens during the CKA exam? How to prepare for the CKA exam? Tips and tricks for troubleshooting The final words… With the growing demand for cloud-native architecture, Kubernetes is becoming a de facto skillset for software architects, developers, and system administrators. While there are different mechanisms to learn Kubernetes, certification such as the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) program by The Linux Foundation helps to provide the direction, curriculum, and knowledge needed ..read more

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tech Tip: Google Lighthouse (an open source tool) is an automated tool to measure and improve the quality of web pages. It covers user experience aspects of the web page including user interface Performance, Accessibility, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), PWA (Progressive Web App), and more. Lighthouse is a modern toolkit for user experience developers and architects providing valuable insights for different quality dimensions to improve end-user experience. Key Questions Q1) How do I integrate or use Google Lighthouse? Answer: Lighthouse can be directly fro ..read more

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Along with significant product announcements, Google Cloud Next 2022 showed the company’s expanding customer base and partner ecosystem. This article outlines key takeaways from Google Cloud Next 2022, which has expanded its audience thanks to the conference’s global broadcast. #1 — Expanding Customer & Partner Ecosystems Keynote participation by leaders from Google Cloud’s key customers such as — Jim Farley (CEO, Ford), Brian Armstrong (CEO, Coinbase), Kevin Mandia (CEO, Mandiant), and many more — indicates a focus on growing customer acquisition across i ..read more

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Spring Framework, released almost two decades ago, has progressively established itself as a de facto standard for building Enterprise Java applications. With emerging trends of building applications by applying Microservices Architecture, Serverless with Cloud computing model, non-blocking architecture with Reactive architecture, Spring framework has been evolutionary in providing the support for modern architecture practices. With Spring Framework as a foundational capability, the below visualization represents the ecosystem of Spring community-provided proje ..read more

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Technology is an evolving field and while I published a separate article on a broader set of technologies getting the momentum in 2022, this article’s focus is to highlight emerging technologies started redefining software system architecture and product companies. #1 — eBPF: Redefining networking, security, and observability tools eBPF is a revolutionary technology with origins in the Linux kernel that can run sandboxed programs in a privileged context such as the operating system kernel (source: ebpf.io) eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is the abstra ..read more

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email With the evolution of enterprise application integration, APIs are the most common interface to exposing functionalities to the wider ecosystem. The rise of Open Banking APIs for financial services, Open APIs in telecommunications, retail, and other domains are clear indicators that integration is not limited within an enterprise. Observing the technology trends in API management helps to extend the enterprise capabilities further, and opens up new possibilities. This article is an opinionated view about the technology trends and updates to know in API manageme ..read more

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Serverless computing has established itself in mainstream adoption and started appearing in the technology roadmap for enterprise organizations. Research companies and industry leaders have predicted that serverless adoption will gain more momentum in 2022. While there are different aspects of Serverless in context to infrastructural elements such as storage, compute and network, this article focuses on the latest trends in serverless application development.  With an increasing focus to offload operations aspects to cloud-service providers or platform-cen ..read more