As cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated, the “Shift-left” approach of DevSecOps is no longer a luxury that is good to have. Security practices early in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) are the most important in modern application development. As one of the most beloved source repositories in the world…

The Cloud Native buzz has undoubtedly created waves of excitement and anticipation, but after all the highs and lows, I like at least one thing which remains persistently: the remarkable adoption of CI/CD as a fundamental practice within enterprises. Nowadays, CI/CD is a general topic in modern application development, irrespective…

Ever since ChatGPT and OpenAI came out to the world for public access, developers around the world have been scrambling to create innovative applications and products that can take advantage of these new AI/ML capabilities. They have a brilliant idea to test with AI/ML, but provisioning and managing necessary infrastructure…

According to the 2022 State of Serverless report by Datadog, it’s clear that Azure Function has been adopted by over 40% of Azure customers, demonstrating the widespread usage of FaaS in the cloud. Using Java as a runtime for FaaS is something that developers would want to debate, but…

Recently, I have been asked by a few developers to show them how to access AKS safely in GitHub Action. As this is a topic of significant interest for developers using Kubernetes, I am writing this comprehensive step-by-step guide. I will start with the traditional way of doing it. Before…

Part 1 — Using Service Connector with Java on Azure is to build up for introducing this new feature, Passwordless Connection. It literally means you can connect to backing services without using a password. If you remember, all the approaches so far use passwords in one way or another to…

I did cover the Service Connector in one of my previous articles briefly. Still, I strongly feel it deserves a dedicated article since a recently announced passwordless connection opens a new potential dimension for Jave developers. It will be two parts articles, at first, we will look at the basics…

Azure AD workload identity for AKS was announced as a public preview on Oct 1st, 2022, and it finally adds long waited managed identity support. As I promised in my previous article — Azure Workload Identity Preview on AKS with Spring Boot, I’m writing a follow-up to cover the managed…

I recently saw an incident where the team suffered almost 20m of downtime due to the unexpected network failure on the Redis cluster. Redis cluster was recovered reasonably quickly by 10s seconds, but the service outage lasted for more than 20min, which indicates that something was going on from the…