The Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) team announced today that Dapr v1.0 is now available and is considered production-ready. Dapr is an open-source runtime that allows developers to build resilient, microservices-based applications that run on the cloud and edge. With the v1.0 release, developers can deploy Dapr applications to Kubernetes clusters in production scenarios. (Read more on InfoQ)

PayPal recently described how it standardized on Apache Airflow and Apache Goblin for implementing its next-gen data movement platform. In a recent blog post, PayPal engineers detail how the existing data movement platform evolved into many tools & platforms in a complex and unmanageable ecosystem and their shift towards a new implementation. (Read more on InfoQ)

In a recent blog post, Pinterest engineers describe how they implemented an efficient two-stage retrieval architecture to retrieve hierarchical documents in a home-grown search engine. They accomplished it by combining index flattening, index normalization, and index denormalization. (Read more on InfoQ)

In a series of blog posts published recently, BBC Online’s lead technical architect explains why BBC Online uses serverless and how they optimize for it. According to the author, BBC Online uses AWS Lambda for most of its core implementation due to its ability to scale extremely fast. When a breaking news story erupts, traffic can increase 3x in a single minute and then keep rising after that. (Read more on InfoQ)

Wasmer recently released version 1.0 of its server-side WebAssembly runtime, and it is now generally available. Wasmer enables super lightweight containers based on WebAssembly. Version 1.0 marks a significant milestone on a journey, which started more than two years ago with version 0.1.0. It is an indicator of the growing interest in WebAssembly on the server-side. (Read more on InfoQ)

Jennifer Cadence, a product marketing manager at Google, recently published an account of the state of no-code app development. In her post, Cadence breaks down why no-code platforms have become an essential part of digital transformation. She suggests that speed and agility, productivity and collaboration, and governance and security are the critical factors for these platforms’ importance. (Read more on InfoQ)

In a recent blog post, Medium describes how it built a recommendation service named “Rex.” The original recommendation service was part of the Node.js monolith, and it could only rank 150 stories. However, Medium wanted this service to rank hundreds of thousands of stories per user in under a second. So, they decided to build an entirely new, separate service using Go. (Read more on InfoQ)

In a recent blog post, Uber engineers highlight how they use a replication platform to implement disaster recovery at scale with a multi-region Kafka deployment. Uber has a large deployment of Apache Kafka, processing trillions of messages and multiple petabytes of data per day. Uber’s engineers provided business resilience and continuity in the face of natural and human-made disasters. (Read more on InfoQ)

AsyncAPI and Postman announced a partnership to support the AsyncAPI specification on the Postman platform. In their respective announcements, they detail how this partnership allows boosting the development of Asynchronous APIs. This will be done by building better tools to help engineers create and maintain Asynchronous APIs while using their favorite programming languages and frameworks. (Read more on InfoQ)

Netflix has successfully implemented a federated GraphQL API at scale. In a recent blog post series, engineers from Netflix describe their journey and the lessons learned in the process. With GraphQL federation, the API gateway implementation is distributed to backend teams owning the individual domain services they implement instead of centrally developed as part of the API gateway. (Read more on InfoQ)