Value Stream Management (VSM) is about empowering delivery organizations to measure, mitigate, and monitor complexity. Simply put, it aims at improving the flow of value in your organisation. The VSM Consortium recently released their highly anticipated report on “The State of Value Stream Management 2022” . In this post we recap some of the findings and look at it specifically from a software engineering and platform engineering point of view.
Want to deploy a Rails app with Docker and AWS, but not sure where to start? AWS Fargate simplifies the convoluted process of deploying Docker on Amazon's Elastic Container Service (ECS). It's also a good alternative to Heroku.
UI is nothing without UX. While user interface development is essential, it means nothing if it doesn’t lead to a good user experience. So whenever us devs add a new feature, or modifies the existing one, we must ensure the UX flows seamlessly. And that means thorough testing. Generally, the development process should involve tests at both the module and unit level to ensure both work as expected through the changes.
JavaScript is single-threaded, but did you know that you can get multithreading with web workers? In this article, Badmus Kola explains how to use web workers to perform operations in parallel.
What a time to be alive! The information age we are currently in has given us more data and choices about, well, everything. But let’s be honest, do any of us actually feel like we’re more informed than we were? Because all this information comes with more choices. Expanded choice is actually an “explosion of choice” – in other words, if the world were a restaurant, the menu is so long you spend more time choosing your order than actually eating it.
If you're looking to build or expand upon a microservices architecture, then you need to seriously consider an API gateway. An API gateway is a critical piece of infrastructure that can help you build a scalable, secure, and efficient microservices architecture. They are an essential part of any API strategy. It acts as a single point of entry for all your API traffic, making it easier to manage and monitor your API traffic.
Recovering revenue is an important part of running a successful venture in the modern API economy. With an API product it can be easy to undervalue your services and, ultimately, your business. This is why many API providers turn to billing customers for their usage, but which API monetization method is best for your product stack? Moesif enables you to make smart, informed decisions around your customers and maximize the monetization of your business model.
