Learn six key patterns of an event-driven messaging architecture design that have facilitated creating a robust distributed system used by more than 1400 microservices.
Enterprises are under constant pressure to increase developer velocity. In competitive markets, these teams need to get code written and have new features built, tested and deployed at a regular rate to keep customers happy and coming back for more. However, despite this existential need to maintain speed, unintended consequences of tool selection and organizational…
Adaptive Applications and Event-Driven Infrastructure as Code | F5
Most organizations employ automation with infrastructure as code but still retain control over deployments. Looking forward, we’ll see more of an event-driven approach, where the trigger itself is automated based on an event. This is a significant part of what will make applications adaptive in the future—the ability to react to automatically to events and adapt location, security, and capacity to meet service-level objectives.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Says His Mentor Asked Him 1 Question Over and Over--and It Changed the Way He Leads | Inc.com
Years ago, Columbia University football coach turned business coach Bill Campbell taught Pichai to ask himself a pivotal question. Pichai is still asking that question today.
Listen to Enya's "Watermark" cut up, looped, and transformed into stunning new ambient work | Boing Boing
Enya’s Watermark (1988) drew from Celtic, New Age, and ambient styles resulting in a crossover commercial hit album for the former Clannad keyboardist/background vocalist. Now, composer Flori…
Learn how you can create faster user experiences, optimize content delivery, and shorten time to production with Akamai EdgeWorkers, our solution for serverless computing.
Many websites provide a search function to help users find nearby locations such as retail stores. Typically, a store locator service is implemented on-premise or at the cloud origin, searching a database to find physical locations near the user. You can improve the performance of this search by executing it in a serverless function at the Edge with EdgeWorkers.
Based on satellite imagery, Erin Davis found the average color of places around the world. The above is by county in the United States, but Davis also made maps by country, which are a mix of green…
I wrote that I wanted to expand creatively beyond maps in 2021, but here we are, halfway in, and half my posts are maps. In my defense, I made these last year and just haven’t gotten around t…
Advice from people who have gotten lucky is a tricky thing. Perhaps they did x, y and z, and then got lucky. As story telling creatures, it’s natural to assume that x, y or z had something to…