Technology Newsletter & Trends Jan 2021 — Ashley

My quarterly newsletter, divided into sections - Cloud, Kubernetes, Big Data, Architecture, Java, Web UI, Gadgets & Misc .

Cloud, Microservices & Providers (AWS etc)

Predictions for cloud computing in 2021

How We Moved Towards Serverless Architecture

AWS Lambda Best Practices

Are you ready for multicloud? A checklist

What GitOps actually is and what it is not

cloud-nuke: how we reduced our AWS bill by ~85%

Creating Monitoring Dashboards

Monitoring and Alerting on your Kubernetes Cluster with Prometheus and Grafana

Using OPA for multicloud policy and process portability

5 Useful Golang Modules Developers Should Know in 2021

CDK or Terraform?

HashiCorp Announces 1.0 Beta of Distributed Orchestrator Nomad

Scaling Applications in the Cloud

Using SSL certificates from Let’s Encrypt in your Kubernetes Ingress via cert-manager

Development and Testing of AWS without AWS: Localstack

Kubernetes, Meshes & Containers

What’s new in Kubernetes 1.20

Managed Kubernetes Services Compared: GKE vs. EKS vs. AKS

Kubernetes CI/CD with CircleCI and ArgoCD

Rethinking Kubernetes Namespaces with the Hierarchical Namespace Controller -Part 1

Kubernetes Operators by Example

Learnings From Two Years of Kubernetes in Production

Kubevious — a Revolutionary Kubernetes Dashboard for Cross-Checking and Validating Your Kubernetes…

Kubernetes Multi-Tenancy — A Best Practices Guide

What’s the best way to manage Helm charts?

Before you use Kustomize

CNCF Approves Kubernetes Edge Computing Platform KubeEdge as Incubating Project

Chaos Engineering on Kubernetes : Chaos Mesh Generally Available with v1.0

Best Practices for Writing a Dockerfile

Michelle Noorali on the Service Mesh Interface Spec and Open Service Mesh Project

Locality-Based Load Balancing in Kubernetes Using Istio

Istio & JWT: Step by Step Guide for Micro-Services Authentication

VMware Tanzu Service Mesh from a Developer's Perspective

Open Service Mesh: a Service Mesh Implementation from Microsoft

All about ISTIO-PROXY 5xx Issues

Go Serverless on Kubernetes With Knative

Big Data, Streams & DBs

AWS & Snowflake vs GCP: how do they stack up when building a data platform?

Data Mesh Principles and Logical Architecture Defined

Kafka For Beginners

Architecture

Technologies & Tools to Watch in 2021

Software Architecture: The Most Important Architectural Patterns You Need to Know

Modern-Day Architecture Design Patterns for Software Professionals

How to Draw Useful Technical Architecture Diagrams

Comparing API Architectural Styles: SOAP vs REST vs GraphQL vs RPC

Principles for Microservice Design: Think IDEALS, Rather than SOLID

Six Rules of Thumb for Scaling Software Architectures

Design review checklist for Distributed Systems | Kislay Verma

21 best free security tools

New GitHub Repositories Default to Main Branch

Building Effective Microservices with gRPC, Ballerina, and Go

Layman’s iptables 101

Java + Spring

What We Know about Java 16 and 17 So Far

How to reduce your JVM app memory footprint in Docker and Kubernetes

Micronaut 2.0 Enhances Tooling, Improves Support for Serverless and GraalVM

Quarkus 1.5 Features New Extensions and fast-jar Packaging

Web + UI

Microfrontends at Vonage - Yoav Yanovski at Vue.JS Amsterdam

Two years of micro-frontends: A retrospective

Webpack vs. Rollup vs. Parcel vs. Browserify: a Detailed Benchmark

8 (more) tips to quickly improve your UI

Bootstrap 5 Removes jQuery Dependency

Gadgets + Misc

Test and review of 4 Wi-Fi 6 routers: Who's the fastest?

Standout Tech Products of 2020

Biggest technology acquisitions of 2020

10 IT leadership development programs to help you level up

15 IT management certifications for IT leaders

From CIO to CEO: 10 tips for taking your career to the top

What is IFTTT? How to use If This, Then That services

Scrum Is Dead. All Hail Kanban, the New King

Windows 10 cheat sheet

20 Android tips you shouldn't miss from 2020

10 hidden tricks for making the most of Android gestures

How I passed the Amazon Interview