Key Takeaways from Google Cloud Next 2022

November 7, 2022November 7, 2022 Ankur Kumar

Along with significant product announcements, Google Cloud Next 2022 showed the company’s expanding customer base and partner ecosystem. This article outlines key takeaways from Google Cloud Next 2022, which has expanded its audience thanks to the conference’s global broadcast. #1 — Expanding Customer & Partner Ecosystems Keynote participation by leaders from Google Cloud’s key customers such as — Jim Farley (CEO, Ford), Brian Armstrong (CEO, Coinbase), Kevin Mandia (CEO, Mandiant), and many more — indicates a…

System Design Mind Map For Building Distributed Systems

September 9, 2022September 9, 2022 Ankur Kumar

System design is foundational for building software architecture in relation to the system under consideration. For building distributed systems, the role of system design has been the key focus area starting with back-of-the-envelop calculations during the brainstorming phase. Whether you are preparing for a system design interview or a workshop as part of distributed system’s planning phase, covering the broader spectrum of knowledge areas is essential from a software architecture…

Spring Framework Ecosystem for Serverless, Microservices, Event-driven, Reactive Systems

August 15, 2022 Ankur Kumar

Spring Framework, released almost two decades ago, has progressively established itself as a de facto standard for building Enterprise Java applications. With emerging trends of building applications by applying Microservices Architecture, Serverless with Cloud computing model, non-blocking architecture with Reactive architecture, Spring framework has been evolutionary in providing the support for modern architecture practices. With Spring Framework as a foundational capability, the below visualization represents the ecosystem of Spring community-provided…

Tech Tip #7 – Use Google Lighthouse For Improving Quality of Web Pages

November 15, 2022November 15, 2022 Ankur Kumar

Tech Tip: Google Lighthouse (an open source tool) is an automated tool to measure and improve the quality of web pages. It covers user experience aspects of the web page including user interface Performance, Accessibility, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), PWA (Progressive Web App), and more. Lighthouse is a modern toolkit for user experience developers and architects providing valuable insights for different quality dimensions to improve end-user experience. Key Questions Q1)…

Key Takeaways from Google Cloud Next 2022

November 7, 2022November 7, 2022 Ankur Kumar

3 Emerging Technologies Redefining Application Architecture

June 9, 2022June 9, 2022 Ankur Kumar

Technology is an evolving field and while I published a separate article on a broader set of technologies getting the momentum in 2022, this article’s focus is to highlight emerging technologies started redefining software system architecture and product companies. #1 — eBPF: Redefining networking, security, and observability tools eBPF is a revolutionary technology with origins in the Linux kernel that can run sandboxed programs in a privileged context such as the operating…

System Design Mind Map For Building Distributed Systems

September 9, 2022September 9, 2022 Ankur Kumar

Spring Framework Ecosystem for Serverless, Microservices, Event-driven, Reactive Systems

August 15, 2022 Ankur Kumar

Modern Technical Buzzwords You Should Know As A Software Architect

August 21, 2021September 29, 2021 Ankur Kumar

With the fast-paced technology landscape, there are modern technical buzzwords every software architect encounters on a day-to-day basis. The purpose of this blog is to enlist the majority of these buzzwords that you should know as a software architect. These are coined by industry experts, technology companies, research firms, domain experts, cloud companies, and so on. To ensure that we collaborate as a community, we have created a GitHub repository…

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