Programming
Prometheus Vs. OpenTelemetry Metrics: A Complete Guide
Welcome to the third and final post of our series about metrics. First, we deep-dived into the four types of Prometheus metrics; then, we examined how metrics work in OpenTelemetry; and finally, we are now putting the two together—explaining the differences, similarities, and integration between the metrics in both systems. We decided to round off the series by …
Jetpack Compose 1.2 Is Now Stable!
Today, we’re releasing version 1.2 of Jetpack Compose, Android’s modern, native UI toolkit, continuing to build out our roadmap. This release contains new features like downloadable fonts, lazy grids, and improvements for tablets and Chrome OS with better focus, mouse, and input handling. Compose is our recommended way to build new Android apps for phone, tablets and …
5 Tactics to Increase Your Odds Of A Great Software Match
There are many obstacles to getting a great match on business software. The biggest obstacle is the huge number of software options in the market today. With a huge pool of software to choose from, it is easy to get duped by unscrupulous software developers. Another notable obstacle is the ambiguity of software features, which …
Get Familiar With Wear OS 3 (Without A Physical Device)
Wear OS has changed a lot over the last 8 years. It’s snappier, more efficient and includes a variety of UI surfaces for which you can develop. While strapping a physical device to your wrist for a few days is really the best way to get a feel for what the platform is like nowadays, it’s not …
Jetpack Compose Interop: Using Compose In A RecyclerView
TL;DR RecyclerView 1.3.0-alpha02 and Compose UI 1.2.0-beta02 bring out-of-the-box performant usage of composables from RecyclerView — no extra code required! If you had previously implemented our guidance for Compose in RecyclerView, you should now remove this code. Introducing Compose incrementally in your codebase means that you can end up in the situation when you’re using composables as items …
Make Your App Large Screen Ready
Nowadays Android runs on several billion devices, and phones are only a part of this ecosystem. Tablets, foldables, and even laptops and desktops support Android apps so you can find your app running on a variety of form factors. In this article, you will learn how to get started with large screen support and why …
Set Up And Observe A Spring Boot Application With Grafana Cloud, Prometheus, And OpenTelemetry
Spring Boot is a very popular microservice framework that significantly simplifies web application development by providing Java developers with a platform to get started with an auto-configurable, production-grade Spring application. In this blog, we will walk through detailed steps on how you can observe a Spring Boot application, by instrumenting it with Prometheus and OpenTelementry and by collecting and correlating logs, …
Exploring Cilium Layer 7 Capabilities Compared To Istio
My mental model has always been that CNI focuses on Layer 3 and 4, so I was surprised to learn that Cilium CNI supports Layer 7(L7) policies. I decided to dig in to learn more about its L7 policy support and how it compares with Istio’s L7 policies. Below are the top four things I …
Testing Your Infrastructure As Code Using Terratest
Setting Up infrastructure manually can be a time-consuming and hectic process. That is when we can make use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to automate the infrastructure. IaC automation can be done for any kind of Infrastructure i.e virtual machine, storage, etc. As more and more infrastructure becomes code, it is essential to have …
Swift Extension For Visual Studio Code
As Swift is deployed across more platforms, it is important that Swift can be developed on more platforms as well. The Swift Extension for Visual Studio Code provides a cross-platform solution for Swift development supporting macOS, Linux, and Windows. Motivation Swift is held back from extending outside the Apple ecosystem by the lack of a first-class, integrated …