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Welcome to the July 2026 edition of theVar!
In this edition - Migrating micro-frontends, Amazon SQS, AI agent goes rogue, new API Gateway course and more
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Architecture
Lessons Learned in Migrating to Micro-Frontends - Luca Mezzalira shares proven learnings from guiding hundreds of teams through the migration from monolithic web applications to distributed frontend architectures. Learn about the core architectural difference between components and micro-frontends, how to utilize edge compute for safe, iterative rollouts and more. Read more here.
Building Service Topology at Scale - The service topology in Netflix is one of the most complicated in the industry, and it needs to support real-time performance at scale. How do they do that? Read about it on the Netflix blog.
How we built Saga rollbacks for Cloudflare Workflows - Running rollbacks in distributed systems is always a challenge, and one of the common ways for doing that is using the Saga pattern. It’s not so easy to implement, and doing that at scale just adds to the complexity. Read here about Cloudflare’s implementation of this pattern.
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Cloud
Amazon SQS turns 20 - Amazon SQS, the simple messaging services introduced in 2006, celebrates 20 years in production, and that’s a very good time to look back at it, see how it evolved, and talk a little bit about future plans. Read about it here.
Built to bounce back: How Azure resiliency evolved - Resiliency is probably the most important aspect of the cloud. You really don’t want to find out that your precious compute payload is down due to the cloud failure.
And looking into one of the largest cloud’s resiliency is definitely a fascinating read. Learn how Azure is doing resiliency here.
The Risk of Exposed Cloud Functions and How to Harden - Publicly exposed resources are very high in the list of top security risks in the cloud. Forgetting to block public access to a serverless resource invites attackers to exploit our resources, steal our information and bring the app down with DDoS attacks. So - it’s really important to be aware of this risk and avoid it. Read more about it here.
AI
The first known runaway AI agent? - Did you hear about the OpenAI accidental cyberattack against HuggingFace? Well, it looks like there’s quite a lot of drama around it, but some of it is just a marketing stunt. Read more here.
An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff - Models keep changing and improving all the time, and it’s easy to follow these changes and figure out which model is best for a specific task.
Well, luckily, Ethan Mollick comes to the rescue with this great guide.
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Development
Will We Still Be coding in 10 Years? - Well, don’t everyone ask this exact question these days? Here’s an interesting take about it in HackerNoon.
The cost of saying yes has changed - Cost of writing code has changed, but we still own it. And that means that changing the code is not always cheap. How do we manage code changes? Read what GitHub engineers have to say about it.
Learn
Announcing my new API Gateway Fundamentals course!
I'm excited to announce my new course, API Gateway Fundamentals.
API Gateways have become the cornerstone of every IT architecture, and they have an essential role in every enterprise architecture. Using API Gateway, we can protect and manage our backend APIs, and free the developer to develop the actual backend logic instead of dealing with cross-cutting concerns such as authentication, security, validation and more.
API Gateways have evolved substantially in recent years, partly due to the development of fully-managed, sophisticated gateways in the public clouds. And that means that learning about them and knowing how to integrate them in your architecture is now a must-have knowledge for the software and cloud architect.
And this is exactly what we're going to do in this course.
In my new course, API Gateway Fundamentals, we'll learn about API Gateways, why they are important, how to choose the right one, how much they are going to cost, and lots more.
We're going to cover not only the low-level, technical aspects of the API Gateway, but also the business implications, the implementation process, and more.
In short - after taking this course, you'll be well-equipped to make an educated decision about the API Gateway in the organization, and you'll know how to design it into your enterprise architecture.
And to celebrate the launch, you can now get this course for $9.99 only, for a limited time.
So click here to get the special price, and become an expert in API Gateways.
So, that was the July 2026 edition of theVar.
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Memi