Doin’ DevOps

How to Migrate an Observability Platform to Open Source

Hemant Sachdeva | April 16, 2024 | application architecture, how-to, microservices, migration, observability, open source, OpenTelemetry, telemetry

Migrating to an open source stack gives you control over telemetry data and reduces observability costs. Here's how to do it with open source ...

microservices, architecture, failure, APIs microservices

Why GraphQL is a Better Choice for Building Microservices

Santhosh Krishnan | April 4, 2024 | GraphQL, GraphQLAdvantages, GraphQLForMobile, GraphQLJava, GraphQLMicroservices, GraphQLNPlus1Problem, GraphQLSpringBoot, GraphQLVsREST, microservices, REST

There's been a long debate about whether it's better to use REST or GraphQL for building microservices. Both technologies have their proponents and critics, but when it comes to the specific needs ...

HashiCorp, IBM, automation, legacy systems, low-code HCL

Bringing DevOps Automation to Legacy Systems

Kausik Chaudhuri | April 3, 2024 | automation, legacy systems

A critical step toward adopting automation for legacy applications is to change your organization's mindset about legacy systems ...

API, API mocking, API onboarding, onboarding

Smoothing API Onboarding With Simulation and Documentation

Jason English | April 2, 2024 | API Mocking, API Onboarding, developer portal, devops

“Soon we’ll be making another run…And love, exciting and new, Come aboard, we’re expecting you…”– Theme from The Love Boat, American television program, circa 1977 If software is eating the world, then ...

scam, developers, freelance, developer, experience, DevEx, development ruby on rails, speed to market, developer happiness, low-code citizen developers development

The Ruby on Rails Resurgence

Jim Remsik | April 2, 2024 | developer happiness, Ruby on Rails, speed to market

Ruby combines functional and imperative programming to create an easy-to-use, powerful language where everything is an object. Introduced in 1995, the open source programming language became popular in the 2000s during the ...

DevOps, operations, multi-tenacy, database, transformation software DevOps

A Brief History of DevOps and the Link to Cloud Development Environments

Laurent Balmelli | March 29, 2024 | CDE, Cloud Development Environments, devops

The history of DevOps is worth reading about, and “The Phoenix Project,” self-characterized as “a novel of IT and DevOps,” is often mentioned as a must-read. Yet for practitioners like myself, a ...

Building an Open Source Observability Platform

Prashant Nerkar | March 28, 2024 | AIOps, machine learning, monitoring, observability, site reliability engineering, tech innovation

By investing in open source frameworks and LGTM tools, SRE teams can effectively monitor their apps and gain insights into system behavior ...

open-source, users, experience, DevEx, business, technical, leadership, teams, devops, small, team, product, devops,DevEx, CI/CD pipelines, developer, experience, Backstage, developer, GitHub productivity Roadie DevX developer experience DPE open source team lead Agile hybrid developer GitLab DevRel developer GitHub BDD CircleCI Rust developer

Is Backstage the Right Internal Developer Portal for You?

Jay Crystal | March 27, 2024 | Backstage, configure8, devops, internal developer portal, platform engineering, TicketOps

There has never been a better time to be a software developer. There is a language and framework to solve virtually any challenges we encounter. New tools, architectural patterns and methodologies like ...

Best Practices for Configuring MySQL Replication

Nick Van Wiggerern | March 26, 2024 | Data Availability, data integrity, devops, mySQL

MySQL provides several replication configuration options. However, ensuring it is done correctly may take time and effort, with considerable choices. Replication is a crucial initial step to enhance availability in MySQL databases ...