New Tech Forum

By Ashish Tadose, Brecht De Rooms, Hannu Valtonen, Murli Thirumale, Patrick McFadin, Shane Johnson, Tim Hinrichs

Understanding GraphQL engine implementations

Among the many ways of implementing a GraphQL engine, only one approach offers the same performance, scalability, and ACID guarantees as the underlying database.

How Oracle v. Google could upend software development

If Oracle convinces the U.S. Supreme Court that APIs are copyrightable, the impact will be felt by software developers across the globe

How to run Cassandra and Kubernetes together

Kubernetes runs distributed applications, and Apache Cassandra provides a distributed database environment. Here’s how you can run them together

How MariaDB achieves global scale with Xpand

A new MariaDB storage engine provides distributed SQL and massive scalability with a shared nothing architecture, fully distributed ACID transactions, and strong consistency

Why you should use Presto for ad hoc analytics

A federated SQL query execution engine created at Facebook, Presto brings interactive querying to all of your data — no matter where it resides

What TikTok teaches enterprises about tech entanglement

Our infrastructure, apps, and data must be designed in a way that makes them portable and flexible enough to be separated cleanly if needed

Using OPA to safeguard Kubernetes

Open Policy Agent addresses Kubernetes authorization challenges with a full toolkit for integrating declarative policies into any number of application and infrastructure components

Bring Elastic Observability to your Java application

How to plan and implement observability of a Java application with Elasticsearch — a step-by-step guide

Why you should look beyond the big 3 cloud providers

There are appealing enterprise options beyond AWS, Azure, and GCP, but buyer beware — not just any cloud service qualifies

6 tips for rapidly scaling applications

How to address dramatic usage increases during COVID-19 or to start planning for growth in the post-pandemic recovery

Why observability is the future of systems monitoring

Combining metrics, events, logs, and traces is essential to understanding our increasingly complex software environments

OPA: A general-purpose policy engine for cloud-native

Open Policy Agent simplifies authorization policy creation and enforcement for distributed applications, Kubernetes, microservices, and much more

How Aerospike achieves low latency and strong consistency across multiple sites

Aerospike Database 5’s multi-site clustering eliminates the trade-off between data consistency and high performance for large-scale, always-on, globally distributed transaction systems

10 important new features in Grafana 7.0

Grafana 7.0 represents a fundamental, system-wide advancement of the open source monitoring and observability platform. Here are the highlights

4 deployment strategies for resilient microservices

Turn to these cloud-native routing techniques to test and mitigate risk in your microservices deployments

Client-serverless is the 4th generation application model

Application models do not change very often, but when they do, they create many opportunities

How PagerDuty helps customer service and IT teams improve responses

PagerDuty uses machine learning to anticipate issues and dramatically accelerate responses, so problems are addressed before they impact customers

Data science during COVID-19: Some reassembly required

Most likely, the assumptions behind your data science model or the patterns in your data did not survive the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s how to address the challenges of model drift