Setting up — If you’re following my Nobel prize laureates tutorial and/or completely new to Ballerina, I’ll walk you through how to install Ballerina, set up VS Code, and create a Ballerina project. If you’re already familiar with all of this, you can check out the post. Steps: Follow instructions to download and…

A detailed walkthrough — The niche of the Ballerina programming language is that it has been designed to allow developers to easily use, combine, and create network services to build real-world, cloud native applications. In other words, it’s a programming language that gives the right set of tools and level of abstraction to developers…

In December 2020, stock markets have risen to record levels. Investors are optimistic about a COVID-19 vaccine rolling out in a big way with the FDA approving Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use. But the surge in COVID-19 cases raises the potential for further lockdowns. …

‘Focus on customers’ is an overused cliche but it remains correct, now more than ever because today’s hyper-connected customers are more informed, empowered, impatient, demanding and unpredictable. These tech-savvy users of the on-demand economy view digital interactions as the primary mechanism for connecting with brands. They are less tolerant of…

I recently wrote a white paper titled, API-driven Microservice Architecture — A WSO2 Reference Architecture. As you might imagine, it covers the key features of a Microservice Architecture (MSA) and why MSA is an excellent approach to building decentralized systems. It also explains that microservices can be too granular when…

In this post, I won’t be raving about how microservices have revolutionized software application architecture (they have!) simply because it has been done ad-nauseam for the past couple of years. Despite their drawbacks — complexity being the biggest of them — microservices are usually a good choice for consumer-driven rapid…

Continuous integration, delivery and deployment is a set of software practices and techniques that enable the frequent release of small batches of code changes, with extensive visibility and traceability. It typically involves the creation of a largely automated pipeline that orchestrates the build, test and deployment of software across staged…

These days, every keynote, panel discussion, article, or study related to how businesses can remain competitive are emphasizing non-stop on the benefits of “digital transformation”. The buzz has now become a roar. However, there can be some confusion around the topic because digital transformation will look different for every company…