Software development strategies continue to evolve to meet changing business needs. There has been a lot of discussion of digital transformation recently, and custom software development is driving much of that transformation. Agile software development and DevOps have become the norm as companies strive to develop better, faster, more flexible applications. Microservices offer the next […]
5 Testing Strategies For Deploying Microservices
With rigorous development and pre-production testing, your microservices will perform as they should. However, microservices need to be continuously tested against actual end-user activity to adapt the application to changing preferences and requests. This article will cover five deployment strategies that will help developers and DevOps teams when releasing new features or making changes to […]
Splunk Survey Surfaces Gains in Observability
A global survey of 1,250 observability practitioners, managers and other experts published today by Splunk found that sophisticated observability practitioners are able to cut downtime costs by 90%. That figure is based on an estimated cost of $23.8 million annually for comparative newcomers to $2.5 million. However, only 9% of respondents are advanced enough to […]
vFunction Tool Uses AI to Help Convert Monolithic Java Apps
vFunction today added the ability to employ artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically assess the level of effort required to convert a monolithic Java application into a set of microservices. Bob Quillin, chief ecosystem officer for vFunction, said the goal is to make it simpler for IT teams to more effectively employ the company’s vFunction Application […]
Microsoft Taps vFunction to Refactor Java Apps for Azure
Microsoft has teamed up with vFunction to make it easier to convert monolithic Java applications into a set of microservices that can be deployed on the Microsoft Azure cloud. The Microsoft Services Industry Solutions group is making available the Java Refactoring Service, through which IT teams will be able to both lift and shift Java […]
3 Steps to Jumpstart Your App Modernization Journey
Like organizing your garage, modernizing your applications can seem daunting before you start, but you know it will pay off once done. So, instead of thinking about this project as a technical challenge, let’s look at it in the wider context of the business. Just as getting rid of old junk in your garage frees […]
Credit Karma Looks to Open Source Distributed App Platform
Credit Karma has launched an application platform, dubbed Talon Polly, that makes it simpler to deploy microservices across multiple runtime environments. Richard Pounder, principal software engineer at Credit Karma, said the consumer financial services provider expects to make Talon Polly available as an open source project next year. Written in the Rust programming language, Pounder […]
Trends in the API Industry
The application programming interface (API) economy is chugging along full steam ahead. The API management market alone is expected to expand 35% by 2025, supported by the sheer number of web APIs coming to market. APIs have become ubiquitous across microservices architectures, public product initiatives, SaaS platform offerings, IoT and partner-partner integrations. The industry has […]
When to Use API Management and Service Mesh Together
Though sometimes described as competing architectures, API management and service mesh have slightly different use cases and can actually work well together. Whereas API management provides the business logic for outside-facing traffic, a service mesh excels at handling intercommunication between microservices. An organization could certainly adopt both simultaneously across their projects. So, when does it […]
Speedscale Makes Free API Observability Tool Available
Speedscale today announced it is making a free edition of its observability tool for application programming interfaces (APIs) available to developers. Ken Ahrens, Speedscale CEO, said the goal is to expose more developers to the company’s API testing tool that can be accessed on their local machine via a command line interface (CLI). Dubbed Speedscale […]
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