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Senior Staff Engineer at Marqeta
IT professional with 30+ years expertise in app design and architecture, feature development, and project and team management. Currently focusing on establishing resilient cloud-based services running across multiple regions and zones. Additional expertise architecting (Spring Boot) Java and .NET APIs against leading client frameworks, CRM design, and Salesforce integration.
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Getting Started With Log Management
Monitoring and the ELK Stack
Getting Started With Static Code Analysis
Responsive Web Design
RESTful API Lifecycle Management
Developer Experience
With tech stacks becoming increasingly diverse and AI and automation continuing to take over everyday tasks and manual workflows, the tech industry at large is experiencing a heightened demand to support engineering teams. As a result, the developer experience is changing faster than organizations can consciously maintain.We can no longer rely on DevOps practices or tooling alone — there is even greater power recognized in improving workflows, investing in infrastructure, and advocating for developers' needs. This nuanced approach brings developer experience to the forefront, where devs can begin to regain control over their software systems, teams, and processes.We are happy to introduce DZone's first-ever Developer Experience Trend Report, which assesses where the developer experience stands today, including team productivity, process satisfaction, infrastructure, and platform engineering. Taking all perspectives, technologies, and methodologies into account, we share our research and industry experts' perspectives on what it means to effectively advocate for developers while simultaneously balancing quality and efficiency. Come along with us as we explore this exciting chapter in developer culture.
Modern API Management
When assessing prominent topics across DZone — and the software engineering space more broadly — it simply felt incomplete to conduct research on the larger impacts of data and the cloud without talking about such a crucial component of modern software architectures: APIs. Communication is key in an era when applications and data capabilities are growing increasingly complex. Therefore, we set our sights on investigating the emerging ways in which data that would otherwise be isolated can better integrate with and work alongside other app components and across systems.For DZone's 2024 Modern API Management Trend Report, we focused our research specifically on APIs' growing influence across domains, prevalent paradigms and implementation techniques, security strategies, AI, and automation. Alongside observations from our original research, practicing tech professionals from the DZone Community contributed articles addressing key topics in the API space, including automated API generation via no and low code; communication architecture design among systems, APIs, and microservices; GraphQL vs. REST; and the role of APIs in the modern cloud-native landscape.
The Modern DevOps Lifecycle
While DevOps is here to stay, as the years pass, we must continuously assess and seek improvements to our existing software processes, systems, and culture — and DevOps is no exception to that rule. With business needs and customer demands constantly shifting, so must our technology, mindsets, and architecture in order to keep pace.Now is the time for this movement that's all about "shifting left" to essentially shift.In our annual DevOps Trend Report, we explore both its fundamental principles as well as the emerging topics, methodologies, and challenges surrounding the engineering ecosystem. Within our "Key Research Findings" and featured articles from our expert community members, readers will find information on core DevOps topics as well as new insights on what's next for DevOps in 2024 and beyond. Join us to learn about the state of CI/CD pipelines, the impact of technical debt, patterns for supply chain management<>DevOps, the rise of platform engineering, and even more!
Observability and Application Performance
Making data-driven decisions, as well as business-critical and technical considerations, first comes down to the accuracy, depth, and usability of the data itself. To build the most performant and resilient applications, teams must stretch beyond monitoring into the world of data, telemetry, and observability. And as a result, you'll gain a far deeper understanding of system performance, enabling you to tackle key challenges that arise from the distributed, modular, and complex nature of modern technical environments.Today, and moving into the future, it's no longer about monitoring logs, metrics, and traces alone — instead, it’s more deeply rooted in a performance-centric team culture, end-to-end monitoring and observability, and the thoughtful usage of data analytics.In DZone's 2023 Observability and Application Performance Trend Report, we delve into emerging trends, covering everything from site reliability and app performance monitoring to observability maturity and AIOps, in our original research. Readers will also find insights from members of the DZone Community, who cover a selection of hand-picked topics, including the benefits and challenges of managing modern application performance, distributed cloud architecture considerations and design patterns for resiliency, observability vs. monitoring and how to practice both effectively, SRE team scalability, and more.
Development at Scale
As organizations’ needs and requirements evolve, it’s critical for development to meet these demands at scale. The various realms in which mobile, web, and low-code applications are built continue to fluctuate. This Trend Report will further explore these development trends and how they relate to scalability within organizations, highlighting application challenges, code, and more.
DevOps
The DevOps movement has paved the way for CI/CD and streamlined application delivery and release orchestration. These nuanced methodologies have not only increased the scale and speed at which we release software, but also redistributed responsibilities onto the developer and led to innovation and automation throughout the SDLC.DZone's 2023 DevOps: CI/CD, Application Delivery, and Release Orchestration Trend Report explores these derivatives of DevOps by diving into how AIOps and MLOps practices affect CI/CD, the proper way to build an effective CI/CD pipeline, strategies for source code management and branching for GitOps and CI/CD, and more. Our research builds on previous years with its focus on the challenges of CI/CD, a responsibility assessment, and the impact of release strategies, to name a few. The goal of this Trend Report is to provide developers with the information they need to further innovate on their integration and delivery pipelines.
Enterprise Application Integration
As with most 2022 trends in the development world, discussions around integration focus on the same topic: speed. What are the common integration patterns and anti-patterns, and how do they help or hurt overall operational efficiency? The theme of speed is what we aim to cover in DZone’s 2022 "Enterprise Application Integration" Trend Report. Through our expert articles, we offer varying perspectives on cloud-based integrations vs. on-premise models, how organizational culture impacts successful API adoption, the different use cases for GraphQL vs. REST, and why the 2020s should now be considered the "Events decade." The goal of this Trend Report is to provide you with diverse perspectives on integration and allow you to decide which practices are best for your organization.
Enterprise AI
In recent years, artificial intelligence has become less of a buzzword and more of an adopted process across the enterprise. With that, there is a growing need to increase operational efficiency as customer demands arise. AI platforms have become increasingly more sophisticated, and there has become the need to establish guidelines and ownership.In DZone's 2022 Enterprise AI Trend Report, we explore MLOps, explainability, and how to select the best AI platform for your business. We also share a tutorial on how to create a machine learning service using Spring Boot, and how to deploy AI with an event-driven platform. The goal of this Trend Report is to better inform the developer audience on practical tools and design paradigms, new technologies, and the overall operational impact of AI within the business.This is a technology space that's constantly shifting and evolving. As part of our December 2022 re-launch, we've added new articles pertaining to knowledge graphs, a solutions directory for popular AI tools, and more.
Application Security
In the era of high-profile data breaches, rampant ransomware, and a constantly shifting government regulatory environment, development teams are increasingly taking on the responsibility of integrating security design and practices into all stages of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).In DZone’s 2021 Application Security Trend Report, readers will discover how the shift in security focus across the SDLC is impacting development teams — from addressing the most common threat agents and attack vectors to exploring the best practices and tools being employed to develop secure applications.
Modern Web Development
The web is evolving fast, and developers are quick to adopt new tools and technologies. DZone’s recent 2021 Modern Web Development survey served to help better understand how developers build successful web applications, with a focus on how decisions are made about where computation and storage should occur.This Trend Report will help readers examine the pros and cons of critical web development design choices, explore the latest development tools and technologies, and learn what it takes to build a modern, performant, and scalable web application. Readers will also find contributor insights written by DZone community members, who cover topics ranging from web performance optimization and testing to a comparison of JavaScript frameworks.Read on to learn more!
Comments
Jul 22, 2022 · John Vester
Thank you for the comment and question, Ted.
From what I understand, Skyflow stores data using the infrastructure provided by AWS, who have data centers in Canada. Skyflow can restrict customer data to specific regions by limiting which data centers store that data, keeping your data in your chosen region at all times.
To learn more about how Skyflow supports data residency requirements like these, check out the following link:
https://www.skyflow.com/solutions/data-residency
Feb 28, 2020 · John Vester
So glad the article was able to validate your findings! Thank you, so much, for taking time to submit a comment!
Feb 21, 2017 · John Vester
Thank you for your thoughts, but the Pull Request (PR) process should protect against the developer merging in changes that do not reflect the best design.
Dec 04, 2015 · John Vester
Hi Jorge!
We are able to pull the workflows into Git without any issues, but have only had success pushing workflows that have had zero updates. So, if you create a new workflow, it will deploy the first time to another Org, but no future updates are actually processed. For workflow updates, we have to use Change Sets at this point.
The other items you noted (layouts and fields) are able to be deployed using the Force Migration Tool. There is a layouts folder that contains the metadata (in XML) to deploy. Some of these items tie back to the profile data (in the profiles folder) or the core objects themselves (stored in the objects folder).
The key is to make sure you configure Eclipse (or just the Force Migration Tool) to pull all data from Salesforce. This way, you can check all of your configuration/code into Git. If the Metadata API ever supports these items, you will be set to deploy.
Hope this helps!
jv
Dec 01, 2015 · John Vester
Thank you for your reply Jorge!
Most of the items you noted we have been able to successfully deploy using our automated process based upon the Force IDE, Eclipse, Stash/Git, Ant, Force Migration Tool and Bamboo. The items that we cannot deploy (app security settings, for example) are tracked in a Confluence page and performed manually in each Org.
I have written the next article in my series, which will be published soon. The focus is configuring Eclipse, Force IDE and Stash/Git. Looking ahead, I will document how Bamboo can be used with the Force Migration Tool and Ant to perform the deployments using the code from Stash/Git.