Modern History – Changes in the Industry Introducing— The Full Stack Developer The “Full Stack Developer”. A fairly recent term which has grown to occupy a huge swath of current developer job descriptions. Whether you’re a JS dev, a .NET or .NET Core dev, a Java dev, an iOS developer working in Swift or Objective-C—or …
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.NEXT is right around the corner, taking place May 7-9, 2019 in Anaheim, California. For those developers attending the conference, be sure to attend Developer Day on May 7. After lunch at Developer Day, we will be hosting a panel discussion with Nutanix customers to share their first hand experience working with and using Nutanix …
A year back when we were looking out to solve the API Reference puzzle, we knew for the fact that seamless automation, scalability, and ease-of-usage were the few corner stones on which we wanted to build the new ecosystem. The market is flooded with many new age API docs tool, but getting the right tool …
Developer portals are many things to many people, they are places where communities are built, problems are solved and new things are learned. The developer.nutanix.com has been around for a long time, but as Nutanix is changing from historically a hardware company to a platform and software company, our developer portal takes on a new …
Starting in September and continuing into October the Nutanix team is going to be coming to cities near you with .NEXT on tour. These events will help you learn about the latest and greatest from Nutanix, but also new for this year will be our API Accelerator Lab. In this bring your own laptop (BYOL) …
Modern digital businesses are delivered by real-time interactions among hundreds and thousands of services. When you order a Lyft or stream a Netflix movie, several services start interacting and coordinating with each other to fulfill your request. Considering the importance of service interactions, the performance, reliability and health of these interactions becomes very critical for every digital business. Unsurprisingly, significant …
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A fundamental challenge for the reliability of distributed systems is the ability to observe and understand dependencies among components. The blindness from not understanding service dependencies is costly: Frustrating Root-cause Analysis: “The service looks fine; some otherdependency is causing errors.” Prolonged Outages: “Which service is causing the downtime?” Bad Deployments: “We didn’t know this code change impacts that …
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Modern cloud applications are highly services-driven and leverage a lot of APIs including external APIs such as Twitter Auth API, Twilio API, Google Maps API, and various PaaS APIs. In a previous blog post, we had talked about the shift from monolithic architectures to microservices and the implications of that change from an operational perspective for …
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