Tag: Architecture and apis
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Serverless API on AWS, Azure and GCP - Deployment and benchmark
Posted on June 1, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this article, author has created a serverless Express API and deployed it on AWS, Azure, and GCP to evaluate each platform's performance. After conducting load tests using K6, I found that Azure and AWS performed comparably well (slightly better for Azure), while GCP lagged due to significant cold starts (up to 5 seconds when speaking to a Database). By Aurélien BETTINI.
Tags architecture-and-apis product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure
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Headless WordPress with GraphQL and SvelteKit
Posted on May 31, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Headless WordPress + GraphQL + SvelteKit as any other stack where you have a backend (data store), a frontend (the website), and a way to connect the two. In this case, the backend is WordPress, the frontend is SvelteKit and the way to connect the two is GraphQL. By Justin Ahinon.
Tags architecture-and-apis product-and-design frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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CQRS facts and myths explained
Posted on May 30, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Older but still relevant article dealing with question of technical patterns and how they are filled with myths and mishaps. Quite often, this happens to CQS and CQRS. By Oskar Dudycz.
Tags architecture-and-apis software-engineering product-and-design data-and-analytics
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LangChain has added Cypher Search
Posted on May 26, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
With the LangChain library, you can conveniently generate Cypher queries, enabling an efficient retrieval of information from Neo4j. By Tomaz Bratanic.
Tags architecture-and-apis product-and-design business-and-emerging-tech data-and-analytics
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Keep parts of your GraphQL Introspection Query hidden
Posted on May 25, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Using directives and plugins in Apollo Server 4 to customize the introspection query output. Once you have created your first schema and your GraphQL server is up and running, it makes sense to implement precautions to prevent it from being compromised by bad actors. By Florian Fuchs·
Tags architecture-and-apis product-and-design devops-and-ci-cd
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Building and deploying MySQL Raft at Meta
Posted on May 19, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
At Meta, we run one of the largest deployments of MySQL in the world. The deployment powers the social graph along with many other services, like Messaging, Ads, and Feed. Over the last few years, we have implemented MySQL Raft, a Raft consensus engine that was integrated with MySQL to build a replicated state machine. By Anirban Rahut, Abhinav Sharma, Yichen Shen, Ahsanul Haque.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis product-and-design
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How to build an NFT gallery using QuickNode's GraphQL NFT API
Posted on May 18, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A step-by-step tutorial on building an interactive NFT Gallery using QuickNode's GraphQL NFT API, icy.tools, JavaScript, Next.js, and Tailwind CSS. By Aayush Gupta.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design
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How to mock HTTP APIs with MockServer
Posted on May 17, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
This post covers step-by-step instructions on how to use MockServer to mock an HTTP API, as well as an overview of limitations one may encounter. As the name suggests, MockServer is a powerful tool that allows developers to mock HTTP APIs, making testing much easier and more efficient. It aims to solve the problem of testing APIs that are still in development or not yet available, allowing developers to continue working without being held up by dependencies. By Kasper Siig. Kasper Siig.
Tags product-and-design architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career frontend-and-mobile
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How to use Azure functions with MongoDB Atlas in Java
Posted on May 15, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In this article, we are going write the function as a service (FaaS) — i.e., a serverless function that will interact with data via a database, to produce meaningful results. FaaS can also be very useful in A/B testing when you want to quickly release an independent function without going into actual implementation or release. By Mohit Sharma.
Tags data-and-analytics backend-development cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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A serverless query engine from spare parts
Posted on May 7, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An open-source implementation of a Data Lake with DuckDB and AWS Lambdas. In this post we will show how to build a simple end-to-end application in the cloud on a serverless infrastructure. The purpose is simple: we want to show that we can develop directly against the cloud while minimizing the cognitive overhead of designing and building infrastructure. By Ciro Greco.
Tags data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure
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Introducing storage on Vercel
Posted on May 6, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length short
Vercel KV, Vercel Postgres, Vercel Blob, and Vercel Edge Config are now available. Driven by the need for both performance and personalization, frameworks are becoming server-first and edge-first. By vercel.com.
Tags product-and-design frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics
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The REST API Handbook – How to build, test, consume, and document REST APIs
Posted on May 5, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length long
This tutorial aims to show you an example of how you can fully implement a REST API. We'll cover basic setup and architecture with Node and Express, unit testing with Supertest, seeing how we can consume the API from a React front-end app and finally documenting the API using tools such as Swagger. By Germán Cocca.
Tags product-and-design architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd frontend-and-mobile