The Messaging team at Twitter has been running an in-house Pub/Sub system for the last few years but have recently made the decision to pivot toward Apache Kafka, both migrating existing use cases and onboarding new use cases. In this blog post, the team discusses why theu chose to adopt Kafka as Twitter’s Pub/Sub system as well as the different challenges they faced along the way.

Postgres has been a great database for decades now, and has really come into its own in the last ten years. Databases more broadly have also gotten their own set of attention as well. But to Craig Kerstiens the most exciting part about Postgres isn’t how it continues to advance itself, rather it is how Postgres has shifted itself from simply a relational database to more of a data platform.

Take Cloudforecast's clever quiz to find out just how much you actually know about the cloud.

In this post from the Go Blog, read about the future of Go, including all the issues and proposals surrounding Go 2. It’s now up to the Go community to provide feedback on the issues listed.

Check out this list of useful resources for programmers and developers from Dev.to.

Software development and programming is a difficult profession. It is very new and requires a lot of practice, learning and mental focus. It can get frustrating when you are working with others and mistakes are made. An angry response is not what we need in development.

Testing is a difficult subject, and there is no written standard. The two things customers want from testing with the LaunchDarkly SDK is the ability to control which variations the SDK serves, and preventing the SDK from polluting an important environment with a bunch of garbage test users. Generally speaking there are five main approaches to clean testing.

Matthew Gregory zooms out to take macro look at IoT developer tools, ‘platform’ markets, and what’s to come next.

Amazon this week introduced two new features that are going to make serverless development even easier: Lambda Layers, and a Lambda Runtime API. Read the full announcement for more info.

AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that allows you to easily monitor and control communications across microservices applications on AWS. You can use App Mesh with microservices running on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), and Kubernetes running on Amazon EC2.

Many organizations use SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) as part of long-established data processing and partner integration workflows. While it would be easy to dismiss these systems as “legacy,” the reality is that they serve a useful purpose and will continue to do so for quite some time. Amazon wanted to help their customers move these workflows to the cloud in a smooth, non-disruptive way.

For the first time, the same machine learning courses used to train engineers at Amazon are now available to all developers through AWS. Read more on the AWS blog.

Firecracker is a new virtualization technology that makes use of KVM. You can launch lightweight micro-virtual machines (microVMs) in non-virtualized environments in a fraction of a second, taking advantage of the security and workload isolation provided by traditional VMs and the resource efficiency that comes along with containers.

This week Amazon announced Amazon Route 53 Resolver for Hybrid Clouds. It’s a set of features that enable bi-directional querying between on-premises and AWS over private connections.

In episode 2 of High Leverage, Joe meets with Corey Quinn, cloud economist and founder of the Quinn Advisory group, to discuss the realities of using cloud providers at scale.

In this post Connie Kwan outlines non-monetary incentive design for platform marketplace owners. Sometimes it’s simple, both Inventory and Buyer sides want monetary exchange. But sometimes it’s not, the Buyer side is willing to pay, but the Inventory side isn’t motivated by money. The latter is a common challenge among developer companies. Read on for insight.

In episode 7 of O11ycast, Charity is joined by fellow Honeycomb team member Michael Wilde along with Asana's heads of engineering and tech, Cliff Chang and Phips Peter, to discuss how observability has shaped their organizations.

In episode 23 of The Secure Developer, Guy speaks with Zach Powers, CISO of One Medical, to discuss the evolution of security at One Medical, what he looks for when hiring for his team, and why automation is a must. 

In episode 34 of JAMstack Radio, Brian talks to Michael Lynn and Drew DiPalma of MongoDB about how developers are using Stitch and Atlas to power their projects.