WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation

The best protection against being hacked is well-informed developers. Make your development team into security experts today.

APM continues to be critical for modern, multicloud observability. Read the report where Gartner defines the market as "software that enables the observation of application behaviour and its infrastructure dependencies, users, and business key performance indicators (KPIs) throughout the application’s life cycle," and see why we’re positioned highest and furthest in both Completeness of Vision & Ability to Execute.

Josh Evans talks about the chaotic and vibrant world of microservices at Netflix. He starts with the basics- the anatomy of a microservice, the challenges around distributed systems, and the benefits. Then he builds on that foundation exploring the cultural, architectural, and operational methods that lead to microservice mastery.

Performance chapter of the 2021 Web Almanac covering Core Web Vitals (Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift, First Input Delay) as well as First Contentful Paint and Time to First Byte

The goal of the Web Almanac’s Structured Data chapter is to explore how structured data is currently being used across the web. We hope that this will provide insight into the landscape, the challenges, and the opportunities at hand.

Choose more than one vendor solution, if necessary. Vendors in the enterprise search functionality segment have cognitive search solutions that apply to the widest number of use cases and include website search and digital commerce. However, the actual features offered by these vendors vary greatly and may not be the best choice for digital commerce. For example, some vendors in the digital commerce functionality segment have sophisticated tools for merchandising that many more general-purpose solutions lack. It is reasonable and not uncommon for enterprises to have more than one cognitive search solution depending on use cases, data sources, content types, and other factors.

API usage, and the need to govern it, is increasing rapidly driven by remote working, platforms, ecosystems, innovations, digital transformations and regulations. Application leaders should use this Magic Quadrant to find the right API life cycle management vendor for their organization’s needs.

This talk describes experiences with building and deploying Piranha, an automated code refactoring tool to delete code corresponding to stale feature flags. The Piranha workflow has been used continuously at Uber since early 2018 to help delete more than 4K stale flags (> 200KLoC) across Java, ObjectiveC, and Swift code.

Our toolkit will introduce you to the market’s landscape of new eCommerce tools and highlight the opportunities for your store.

In this e-book, we'll answer all of the questions you have about customer data platforms and help you to understand the value that a CDP can bring to your business. You will also learn specifically how a CDP can increase customer lifetime value and other key metrics.

Check out this showcase of some of the best, open source static site generators. This is community-drive so be sure to submit your favorite today!

Lighthouse now supports performance budgets. This feature, LightWallet, can be set up in under five minutes and provides feedvack on the size and quantity of page resources.

The C4 model was created as a way to help software development teams describe and communicate software architecture, both during up-front design sessions and when retrospectively documenting an existing codebase. It's a way to create maps of your code, at various levels of detail, in the same way you would use something like Google Maps to zoom in and out of an area you are interested in.

Curious to know what technologies are used on your competitor’s website?

One of the many challenges with building or refreshing a website is the selection of a Content Management System (CMS). Despite our best efforts the CMS can often be a source of difficulty in a project, but there are alternatives. Read about the approach we took on www.thoughtworks.com to developing functionality to support content management in an incremental fashion.

CONCLUSION

This article has detailed an incremental approach to developing a content managed web application, in contrast to the adoption of a CMS at the outset. While there are the costs associated with developing functionality which you could get “off the shelf,” these are offset by some of the advantage of this approach – flexibility, simplicity, control, obviating the need to learn a bespoke framework and above all being able to move in small steps from a simple static web site to a managed one.

We applied the editing-publishing separation
pattern in building a two-stack CMS to support a global
readership while supporting complex coordination of legacy
editing tools. 

When content volume is low and only few trained people are responsible for content creation and maintenance, any added complexity of a two stack CMS isn't worthwhile. Such complexity makes it harder for content creators to learn how to use it and adds significant effort in system maintenance. (Although this may be mitigated by tools that are designed to work in this style.)