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Backend Engineering|Nov 13, 2024

Deep dive into Bazel queries: from basics to advanced use cases

This article will guide you through a notable subset of Bazelʼs querying features backed by examples. These are useful for debugging, exploration, and tooling. We’ll start with basic Bazel queries with target patterns, then we will move on to demonstrating Bazel aquery and cquery.

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Frontend Engineering|Oct 31, 2024

Understanding Micro Frontend Architecture: Benefits, Challenges, and Best Practices

The micro frontend architecture gives engineering teams flexibility in developing and maintaining different parts of the application. However, this comes with drawbacks, such as an increased total size of the code and an additional layer of complexity. In this article, we will go through the pros and cons of this architecture and share our recommendations for implementing it in your project.

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Backend Engineering|Oct 14, 2024

What is developer experience (DX) and how to tell if your project delivers a good one?

Developer Experience (DX) has emerged as a crucial factor in the success of any software development project. At its core, DX represents the overall happiness, productivity, and ease with which developers can create high-quality work. But how can you truly measure the DX of your project?

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Frontend Engineering|Aug 31, 2024

What is the best micro frontend framework right now? Insights from our experience

There is more than one way to build a micro frontend architecture. The most sensible, and popular, is via the appropriate framework. If you're short on time, here's our quick take: single-spa is likely the framework you'll want for your project right now. It is light, fast and reliable.

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Cloud Engineering|Aug 9, 2024

When to adopt platform engineering: 5 key insights for strategic success

Learn the key indicators and strategic steps to determine the right time for adopting platform engineering to enhance productivity and streamline operations.

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Cloud Engineering|Aug 7, 2024

Internal developer portals: a springboard to platform engineering

Discover how internal developer portals boost platform engineering by centralizing deployment and enhancing developer experiences. Learn more from VirtusLab!

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Backend Engineering|Jul 31, 2024

What are the best IDEs in 2024? Our perspective, based on 10+ years of experience

In this article, we will take a closer look at 3 IDEs, that we believe to be the best in their own right, and a few others that are worth taking a closer look at. We will explain their unique features and the types of projects for which they are best suited.

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Cloud Engineering|Jul 8, 2024

Why do many organizations use the hybrid and multi-cloud approach?

The hybrid cloud infrastructure gives your organization better control over its sensitive data and boosts the performance of its applications. It also integrates well with their legacy systems.

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Business insights|Jul 8, 2024

What is cloud repatriation?

Cloud repatriation came about as an answer to the challenging landscape of the current economy. IT managers save millions of dollars in subscription fees and other costs by moving their projects and data from the public cloud to private data centers.

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Scala|Jul 4, 2024

Scala 3 Roadmap for 2024

As Scala 3 maintainers, VirtusLab has big plans for this year. We have put them all together in a detailed roadmap, specifying the future of Scala 3 in 2024. Read on to learn how we intend to release new versions more often, improve reporting, and enhance the UX of Scala 3 and the tooling.

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Scala|Jul 1, 2024

Scala Long-Term Support retrospective

Scala 3.3.0 was released as the first Long-Term Support (LTS) version in Scala's history. Let's see what happened and what changes occured.

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Data Engineering|May 20, 2024

How to build an LLM chatbot for your company’s information

As organizations grow in size, the volume of internal information swells exponentially. A LLM chatbot helps to find the information and streamline data distribution.

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