Tag: App development
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The £20 billion handshake: Backend deals reshaping your search bar
Posted on December 26, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
This article explores how massive backend licensing agreements between tech giants and AI providers are transforming digital search and assistants, highlighting their impact on competition, innovation, and developer opportunities. By SmarterArticles.
Tags web-development management app-development search cio
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Bridging the open source gap: from funding paradoxes to digital sovereignty
Posted on December 22, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Europe boasts a strong grassroots open-source community, yet struggles to translate that activity into commercial value. This article, based on Linux Foundation research, explores the disconnect between European developer contributions and funding, highlighting the need for greater C-level recognition of open-source's value and a more robust ecosystem to foster commercial ventures. It argues that bridging this gap is crucial for Europe's digital sovereignty in an increasingly geopolitically charged landscape. By Olimpiu Pop.
Tags web-development app-development open-source cio
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CI/CD pipeline architecture: Complete guide to building robust CI and CD Pipelines
Posted on December 19, 2025, Level advanced Resource Length long
The article details a two-part CI/CD Pipeline Architecture Framework designed to guide teams from basic automation to a mature development platform. The first part, the "Golden Path," is a linear, six-stage workflow that forms the essential, reliable backbone: Code Commit (with branching strategy), Automated Build (ensuring environment parity), Automated Testing (using a test pyramid), Staging Deployment (mirroring production via IaC), Production Deployment (with health checks and rollback), and Monitoring & Feedback (closing the loop with observability). By Kamil Chmielewski.
Tags web-development app-development cicd devops how-to
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How to find and remove unused Azure Data Factory Pipelines
Posted on December 17, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length long
A 20-line PowerShell snippet scans every subscription, flags ADF factories that haven't executed a pipeline in 30 days, and hands you a clean-up hit-list in seconds. By Dieter Gobeyn.
Tags web-development app-development devops azure big-data
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Why we need Queues - and what they do when no one is watching
Posted on December 11, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Black Friday’s chaos is a perfect example of how message queues can transform a fragile system into a resilient one, smoothing out traffic spikes and preventing system crashes. By Jakub Slys.
Tags programming software-architecture app-development queues
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Deep dive in Java vs C++ performance
Posted on December 9, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length long
This article compares Java and C++ performance, debunking myths and revealing Java's strengths in memory management, execution speed, and optimizations. Find out why Java might be the unsung hero of high-frequency trading and server applications. By Johnny’s Software Lab LLC.
Tags programming performance app-development web-development
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Scaling real-time video on AWS
Posted on December 7, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Dive into the core protocols powering WebRTC, exploring how SDP, ICE, and DTLS work together to enable secure, real-time communication in production environments. Author works with the engineering team of a global live-streaming platform, and recently, we built a planet-scale WebRTC Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) on AWS using Kubernetes to keep end-to-end latency below 150 ms (P95 = 140 ms) even across continents. By Oleksii Bondar.
Tags aws devops cicd app-development web-development
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Automating stateful apps with Kubernetes Operators
Posted on December 5, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Automating stateful apps with Kubernetes Operators simplifies management of complex workloads by handling critical tasks like scaling, backup and failover automatically. This reduces downtime and human errors that are common in manual deployment processes. By Keval Bhogayata.
Tags kubernetes devops cicd app-development
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AWS Lambda enhances event processing with provisioned mode for SQS event-source mapping
Posted on November 30, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length short
Provisioned mode for SQS ESM enables dedicated resources (event pollers) that scale up to 1000 per minute to handle traffic spikes and low latency processing, maintaining up to 20K concurrency. This improves performance and responsiveness of event-driven apps, making it a viable option for high throughput scenarios. By Micah Walter.
Tags aws serverless queues messaging app-development
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Laravel optimization: The complete performance guide for faster application
Posted on November 28, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
This article provides a comprehensive guide to optimizing Laravel applications for speed and performance. It covers caching strategies, database query optimization, server-level configurations, and hosting considerations. By implementing these techniques, developers can reduce load times, enhance scalability, and improve user experience. By Carrie Smaha.
Tags performance php web-development app-development
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How I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years
Posted on November 26, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Reddit's early use of RabbitMQ highlighted the critical need for robust, durable task queues to handle high-volume, asynchronous operations – a lesson that continues to resonate in modern distributed systems. By DBOS.
Tags messaging queues software-architecture distributed web-development app-development
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Streaming responses via AWS Lambda
Posted on November 22, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this blog, we will look at how Lambda function's Response Streaming would be helpful and identify when it would be ideal to use Response Streaming for your workloads. By Jones Zachariah Noel N.
Tags serverless streaming devops messaging app-development