Catch Up on REST APIs, Mobile Development, and the Open Source DevOps Dashboard Tool Hygieia

Summer is officially here and the Capital One DevExchange thought we’d share some of what we’re reading and listening to this vacation season.

Read

· Plugin-Based Architecture and Scaling iOS Development at Capital One — How does a huge mobile org manage to ship a new version of their flagship app every other week without compromising on quality? Capital One iOS engineer Korhan Bircan explains how we built the plug-in based architecture behind the Capital One iOS app.

· A Three-Part Guide to Better Application Monitoring — “If everything is metrics-focused, how do we determine which metrics to pay attention to?” Make sure you’re paying attention to Peter Fraedrich’s 3-part “mon-ifesto” on the art of application monitoring.

· Kotlin Coroutines on Android: Things I Wish I Knew at the Beginning — Kotlin coroutines has a number of little subtleties and tricks that you can learn over time, or you can let Capital One mobile dev Nick Capurso walk you through a months’ worth of lessons in a single blog post.

· Focusing on the DevOps Pipeline — DevOps expert and evangelist Topo Pal outlines the 3 types of problematic DevOps pipelines and how to improve them.

· Blazing Fast Data Lookup in a Microservices World — “As computer scientists and data scientists we need more than one tool to solve our problems.” Software Engineer Chris Fauerbach examines two approaches for providing the blazing fast data streams needed for modern microservices architecture.

Listen

What’s in store for the future of API design in a post-REST world? Executive API Consultant James Higginbotham discusses the use cases driving the next generation of APIs in this exclusive Capital One DevExchange webinar. If you missed it when it originally ran, we’ve made a recording for your enjoyment.

Note — while the recording is free, you will need to register on the site to access it.

Learn

How did Walmart scale Hygieia — the open source DevOps dashboard tool — to 5,000+ dashboards? This case study breaks down how the world’s largest retailer uses Hygieia to monitor and improve their CI/CD pipeline.

To learn more about Hygieia 3 and how you can contribute to the roadmap for this popular open source project, check out our site or find Hygieia on GitHub.

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