System Architecture

Posts in this series: A Case StudyDesigning Authentication SchemesAuthorizing Client ApplicationsIn our last post, we chose the OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials grant scheme to authenticate our APIs and daemon applications: API and daemon application calling an internal APIOnce we go the route of performing "service account"-based authentication, our

Methodical release of software is a crucial part of the development lifecycle. After the hard work producing the software it would be a…

Developments in Security, Quantum Computing, Energy, and More

The “Sleng Teng” riddim revolutionized reggae music in the mid-1980s, and has spawned hundreds of versions in the decades since then. Less well known is the story of how the distinctive bassline or…

Some of my earliest childhood memories involve watching grainy VHS movies over and over on a huge 80’s floor model TV. Over the years there have been many format wars – Betamax vs VHS w…

SaaS platform Ezako’s commitment to improving machine learning on time series data significantly accelerates key processes that ML data scientists face.

There's a three-step process for transitioning to a multi-cloud strategy, and cloud resource optimization can help you make the move.

Cloud computing isn’t going anywhere, but some companies are shifting their machine learning data and models to their own machines they manage in-house. Adopters are spending less money and getting better performance.

(and creating a clumsy one of my own)

When projects fail, it's often because of failure to design, develop and manage APIs, microservices and integrations together for fast innovation.

By Bo Lei, Guilherme Pires, James Shao, Kasturi Chatterjee, Sujay Jain, Vlad Sydorenko

In case you missed it, we’re living in the age of API insecurity. Gartner predicts that API breaches will become the leading attack vector in 2022. You don’t need to look far to read about how an API security flaw led to massive attacks against organizations like LinkedIn, Parler and Clubhouse. As APIs are becoming […]

The upstart internet security and edge infrastructure company has reinvented itself to challenge the hyperscale cloud providers. Can it succeed?

Each year, InfoQ editors discuss what we’ve been observing across the entire software development landscape, and create several trends reports, each with its own graph of the adoption curve. This helps the editorial team focus its reporting on innovative technologies and ideas, and also provides our readers with a high-level overview of topics to keep an eye on.

Custom Tailwind variants for Phoenix LiveView-specific CSS classes

Setup Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) for productive Elixir development.

Ever wanted to store a blob of custom data on a database record? When the data is stored using Ecto there are several ways we can do it. This article explores two paths and discusses some of the pros and cons for each approach.

Let's open a hex editor and see what this thing is made of

Edge data is exploding, but organizations’ struggles to pool the data together for where and when its developers, data scientists and other DevOps team members need it are among the challenges it poses. As a potential solution, InfluxData’s Edge Data Replication enables developers to collect, store and analyze high-precision time series data in InfluxDB at […]

While differences exist between an API gateway and a service mesh, it’s not an either/or situation. Here's why the two are compatible.

How Virtual Machines are used to deploy services. What old problems containers solve and what new problems introduce. How Kubernetes used containers to recreate Virtual Machines?

An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2022, with a focus on what architects are designing for today.

Using GitHub Actions to add labels conditionally to a PR based on which files and directories changed

Fred Brooks observed in Mythical Man Month that adding more programmers to a project often slowed it down. The effect works in reverse, as Paul Graham noted in a 2001 essay, The Other Road Ahead: as groups get smaller, software development gets exponentially more efficient Graham was observing the early