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Reducing Complexity with Kalix

By Noah Barnes
cloudpaas

Infrastructure management and database operations can be tedious, here we will cover insight into how our SREs handle Kubernetes and database management for you.

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Maximizing Feature Development: Rethinking the 80/20 Ratio in Cloud Applications

By Hugh McKee
cloud

Building and running custom enterprise backend applications in the cloud requires significant time, effort, and costs that go beyond just designing and developing features.

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Kalix and the Rise of Enterprise-Ready Fully Serverless Platforms

By Hugh McKee
serverless

This post dives into what constitutes a fully serverless platform, its key benefits compared to traditional serverless approaches, useful applications, and some challenges to consider.

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Unlocking the Power of Pure Event-Driven Systems with Kalix

By Hugh McKee
event-driven

This post will explain what defines a pure event-driven system and how it differs from other forms of EDA, looking at key technical characteristics and the benefits and potential drawbacks of using this pattern.

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Saga Patterns in Kalix Part 5 - Orchestration with Workflows

By Andrzej Ludwikowski
microserviceevent-drivenentities/entitybusiness-logicsaga

Orchestration-based saga patterns are more request-driven than event-driven, but you can unleash real power when you combine the two approaches.

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Saga Patterns in Kalix Part 4 - Error Handling, DLQ

By Andrzej Ludwikowski
event-drivenentities/entitybusiness-logicsaga

Error handling for choreography-based saga patterns is complex, especially poison messages. See how to use the dead letter queue to solve this issue.

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Saga Patterns in Kalix Part 3 - Exactly-once Delivery with Deduplication

By Andrzej Ludwikowski
entities/entitybusiness-logicsaga

At-least-once delivery and a rich toolbox of deduplication strategies help achieve the seemingly impossible exactly-once delivery.

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Saga Patterns in Kalix Part 2 - Read Models

By Andrzej Ludwikowski
event-drivenentities/entityjavasaga

Built-in elasticity provides flexibility to complete asynchronous CQRS implementation easily and generate read models with Kalix.

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Saga Patterns in Kalix Part 1 - Event Choreography

By Andrzej Ludwikowski
microserviceevent-drivenentities/entitybusiness-logicjavasaga

Building an event-driven Saga choreography may not be rocket science, but it can be extremely complex and tedious if you’re not using Kalix.

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Enhanced Developer Experience with Kalix JVM SDKs v1.3

By Eduardo Pinto
developer-experienceevent-drivencloudentities/entitybusiness-logicjavaapi

See how some of the latest improvements in Kalix JVM SDKs v1.3 directly contribute to a better Developer Experience when it comes to running, debugging and testing your Kalix service.

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Towards Declarative Cloud Native Programming: The New Kalix Developer Experience

By Jonas Bonér
developer-experiencecloudbusiness-logic

A Developer Experience that allows developers to work at the highest level possible.

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Overcoming the Fear of Losing Control in High Abstraction Cloud-Native Software

By Hugh McKee
cloudbusiness-logic

Despite cloud native's advantages, developers often resist using high-abstraction software systems due to the perceived loss of control.

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Introducing Kalix Workflow Component

By Andrzej Ludwikowski
microserviceevent-drivenentities/entitysaga

The long-awaited Kalix Workflow component has been officially released. It’s a new component in the Kalix ecosystem that makes building long-running business processes (a.k.a. Sagas) faster and easier than ever before.

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From Concept to Reality: Unraveling the Ideal Features of an Event-Driven Microservice Platform

By Hugh McKee
microservicedeveloper-experienceevent-drivenapi

This article explores the fundamentals of event-driven microservices, focusing on the importance of loose coupling, message-driven communication, and asynchronous processing.

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Introducing Code-first Java SDK for Kalix

By Renato Cavalcanti
developer-experienceentities/entityjavaapi

The Java SDK for Kalix offers a developer experience that is familiar to both Java and Spring Boot users.

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Climbing the Ladder of Abstraction

By Jonas Bonér
developer-experienceserverlessevent-drivencloudbusiness-logicapi

Today’s cloud infrastructure is fantastic. The richness and power of our cloud-native ecosystem around Kubernetes are easy to forget. It’s hard to remember the world before containers and Kubernetes.

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Our first Code-first SDK aimed at simplifying Developer Experience is now GA

By Rahul Kumar
developer-experiencejava

The Java SDK built on the Code-first development style is now GA. The goal of introducing the code-first approach is to simplify the Developer Experience and increase developer efficiency.

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Real-Time Weather Alerting with Kalix

By The Kalix Team at Lightbend
microserviceevent-drivenbusiness-logicjavaapi

In this tutorial, we'll explore how to create an API with Kalix, how to use protocol buffers to specify API declarations, and how Kalix developer tools generate Java code.

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When Should I Use Microservices?

By The Kalix Team at Lightbend
microserviceserverlesscloudpaasbusiness-logicapi

This article will walk you through what microservices do well, their challenges, and whether they’re right for you.

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Microservices Versus Serverless

By The Kalix Team at Lightbend
microserviceserverlessevent-drivencloud

These adaptable models provide businesses with the agility, flexibility, and scalability to meet changing market demands.

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How Kalix Increases Engineering Velocity

By The Kalix Team at Lightbend
microservicecloudpaasbusiness-logic

Explore how Kalix can help increase engineering velocity and release quality software more frequently and quickly.

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How Kalix Abstracts Away Headaches

By The Kalix Team at Lightbend
microserviceserverlesscloudpaasbusiness-logicapi

Through abstraction, Kalix allows developers to build high-performance, low-latency applications without worrying about architectural complexity, database management, or developer operations.

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A Guide to Event Sourcing in Microservices

By The Kalix Team at Lightbend
microserviceserverlessevent-drivencloudpaas

A high-level guide to event sourcing in microservices. Learn what it is, how it works, and why it is important.

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Implementing Cross-entity Unique Keys in Kalix - Part 3

By Renato Cavalcanti
event-drivenentities/entity

In this last post of the series, we will explain how we can use Kalix Timers to free the requested handle from it's locked state.

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Implementing Cross-entity Unique Keys in Kalix - Part 2

By Renato Cavalcanti
event-drivenentities/entity

In part 2 we cover how to combine Actions, Value Entities and Event Sourced Entities to implement cross-entity unique keys.

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Implementing Cross-entity Unique Keys in Kalix - Part 1

By Renato Cavalcanti
event-drivenentities/entitybusiness-logicjava

A common question that is often asked when building event sourced models is how to deal with cross-entity unique keys. The problem appears when the model has a field that is not its primary key, but needs to be unique across all entities in the system.

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7 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Microservices

By The Kalix Team at Lightbend
microservicebusiness-logic

A microservice is an independently releasable service with isolated processing around its data. It encapsulates all the functionality around a specific business domain with clear boundaries, making its service available over networks, typically HTTP

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Managing Kalix APIs with Apigee

By Alan Klikić
serverlesspaasbusiness-logicapi

This article will showcase how Google Apigee cloud service can be used to facade Kalix API with required API gateway features.

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Serverless in 20 Minutes: Gaming Leaderboard

By The Kalix Team at Lightbend
serverlessevent-drivenpaasentities/entitybusiness-logicjavaapi

In this tutorial, we will create a simple gaming leaderboard simulator app based on Spring Boot. We will deploy the code on a serverless platform, so we only have to write the logic without paying much attention to how the data is stored.

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Integrating Kalix and Auth0 using JWTs

By James Roper
entities/entityjava

This article is going to walk you through integrating Kalix and Auth0 using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs).

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Kalix and DDD

By Francisco López Sancho
microserviceevent-drivenentities/entity

In this article, you'll learn how concepts from DDD are reflected in Kalix.

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Real-Time Traffic Monitoring with Kalix

By The Kalix Team at Lightbend
microserviceserverless

In this article, we’ll create a service hosted by Kalix to simulate a real-time vehicle tracking system.

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Kalix: Move to the Cloud. Extend to the Edge. Go Beyond.

By Jonas Bonér
microservicedeveloper-experienceserverlesscloudpaasbusiness-logicapi

We set a high bar for ourselves to build a powerful PaaS that unlocks and propels innovation while solving the most significant challenges organizations and their development teams face in building high-performance, data-centric applications.

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