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The Meta of Design With several decades of experience, I love building enterprise applications for companies. Each solution requires a set of models: an SQL database, an API (Application Programming Interface), declarative rules, declarative security (role-based access control), test-driven scenarios, workflows, and user interfaces. The "meta" approach to design requires…

Are you ready to get started with cloud-native observability with telemetry pipelines?  This article is part of a series exploring a workshop guiding you through the open source project Fluent Bit, what it is, a basic installation, and setting up the first telemetry pipeline project. Learn how to manage your…

Are you ready to start your journey on the road to collecting telemetry data from your applications? Great observability begins with great instrumentation!  In this series, you'll explore how to adopt OpenTelemetry (OTel) and how to instrument an application to collect tracing telemetry. You'll learn how to leverage out-of-the-box automatic…

In a recent fireside chat, I delved into the intriguing convergence of Terraform and Backstage, two pivotal technologies reshaping the landscape of platform engineering. This session was particularly exciting as I had a special guest, Seve Kim, a product manager from Backstage, joining Abby Bangser and me!  Although the chat…

As part of migrating Java enterprise applications to the cloud, it is beneficial to replace parts of the technology stack with equivalent cloud services. As an example, traditional messaging services are being replaced by Amazon SQS as part of the migration to AWS. Java Messaging Service (JMS) has been a…