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AWS Compute Blog

Migrating your Java applications to AWS Graviton using AWS Transform custom

For Java applications, modern JVMs like Amazon Corretto and OpenJDK are highly optimized for Arm64 and modern applications that are pure Java often require zero changes to run on Graviton. In many cases, applications aren’t fully modernized or purely Java and have a range of dependencies. When you’re responsible for migrating workloads, it’s helpful to […]

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ExternalSoftware Architecture
Martin Fowler

The test suite as a regression sensor

Birgitta Böckeler finishes her post on sensors for coding agents by examining the role of a test suite as a regression sensor, focusing on the role mutation testing can play. more…

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ExternalSoftware Engineering
DZone

Kafka and Spark Structured Streaming in Enterprise: The Patterns That Hold Up Under Pressure

I've been running Kafka and Spark Structured Streaming together in production for about five years. Not in demo environments or proof-of-concept projects. In systems processing insurance claims, manufacturing telemetry, and financial transaction data, with SLAs and compliance requirements, and people who call you at 2 AM when things break. There's a version of Kafka plus Spark Structured Streaming that looks elegant in architecture diagrams and falls apart in the first month of production. There

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ExternalSoftware Engineering
DZone

DevOps and Platform Engineering Readiness Checklist: Everything Needed for a Scalable, Secure, High-Velocity Delivery Platform

Editor’s Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone’s 2026 Trend Report, Platform Engineering and DevOps: How Internal Platforms, Developer Experience, and Modern DevOps Practices Accelerate Software Delivery. High-performing engineering organizations don’t scale through heroics. They scale through repeatable platform capabilities backed by evidence. This checklist reflects the shift from tool‑centric DevOps to product‑oriented platform engineering, focused on scale, re

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ExternalSoftware Architecture
Martin Fowler

The VibeSec Reckoning

Vibe coding has significantly accelerated software prototyping but AI agents frequently recommend insecure configurations, creating security problems. Gautam Koul, Lucian Moss, Neil Drew-Lopez, and Daberechi Ruth Edeokoh share their experience while building applications for Thoughtworks's global marketing. They learned that to combat this we need to write a security context file to guide the AI, be cautious with AI permission requests, create a daily security

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