🗞️ Interesting Articles
DevX Pod: The inner feedback loop w/ Waldemar Hummer & Oleg Šelajev on Apple Podcasts
This Gitpod podcast dives deep into the inner feedback loop and “remocal” development, with guests from LocalStack and Atomic Jar (TestContainers). They talk about their visions for unit and integration testing with cloud/K8s and also how the impacts CI/CD. The Ambassador Labs team recently presented a related talk, “Building Microservice Systems Without Cooking Your Laptop: Going "Remocal" with Docker, Telepresence, and Kubernetes”
Mastering API Architecture
Our very own Daniel Bryant has written an O’Reilly book, “Mastering API Architecture”, with Jim Gough and Matthew Auburn, that was published this month. Here you'll learn strategies for building and testing REST APIs that use API gateways to combine offerings at the microservice level.
ThoughtWorks Tech Radar
The latest ThoughtWorks Tech Radar has been published, with Backstage and "Team cognitive load" moving to adopt, and "incremental developer platform" has moving to trial. The team also published a very interesting related piece, “Better developer platforms are the key to better digital products”, which jives with our latest thoughts.
The Flywheel Effect of Kubernetes APIs
A fantastic piece from Bilgin Ibryam that takes a look at new areas where Kubernetes-like declarative APIs and complementary developer tools like Dapr are gaining popularity and becoming mainstream.