Tag: Architecture and apis
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How to create an effective technical architectural diagram?
Posted on November 15, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
An Alibaba engineer shows how you can create effective architectural diagrams. By Ding Yi @Alibaba.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous leadership-and-career architecture-and-apis software-engineering
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Swiftly search metadata with Amazon S3 serverless architecture
Posted on October 31, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
As you increase the number of objects in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), you'll need the ability to search through them and quickly find the information you need. By Jiwan Panjiker, Haider Naqvi, and Muthuvelan Swaminathan.
Tags architecture-and-apis product-and-design data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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Choosing a FaaS (Function as a Service) provider in 2021
Posted on October 29, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Function execution platforms really gained rise as more people got tired of setting up full containerized environments for simple code execution. The costs, overall maintenance, and cascading consequences of failures meant more people were looking for a lean context to execute one-off workers in the cloud. By Jesse Martin.
Tags leadership-and-career product-and-design architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure
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Build and secure FastAPI server with Auth0
Posted on October 26, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Learn the basics of FastAPI, how to quickly set up a server and secure endpoints with Auth0. By Mark Halpin.
Tags architecture-and-apis product-and-design security-and-privacy frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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Comparing the best web servers: Caddy, Apache, and Nginx
Posted on October 23, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A web server is a piece of software that accepts a network request from a user agent, typically a web browser, and returns either the appropriate response for the request or an error message. Two dominant solutions for HTTP servers today are Apache and Nginx. However, a new player in the space, Caddy Web Server, is gaining traction for its ease of use. By Ayooluwa Isaiah.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis product-and-design data-and-analytics
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Using the Saga pattern in Microservice transactions
Posted on October 22, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Using the microservices architecture has many benefits. It has become the norm for many large-scale applications. However, Microservices also comes with several challenges. One such challenge is handling transactions that span across multiple services. By Chameera Dulanga.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis product-and-design
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Postgres full-text search: Search engine in a database
Posted on October 9, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
So when we say PostgreSQL is the "batteries included database," this is just one reason why. With Postgres, you don't need to immediately look farther than your own database management system for a full-text search solution. If you haven't yet given Postgres' built-in full-text search a try, read on for a simple intro. By Kat Batuigas.
Tags data-and-analytics business-and-emerging-tech architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development
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Distributed transaction patterns for microservices compared
Posted on October 8, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length long
One thing most customers want to know is how to coordinate writes to more than one system of record. Answering this question typically involves a long explanation of dual writes, distributed transactions, modern alternatives, and the possible failure scenarios and drawbacks of each approach. By Bilgin Ibryam.
Tags leadership-and-career devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis
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Anthos service mesh
Posted on October 7, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Over the course of this series, we are going to cover various topics associated with Google Cloud's Anthos. The series will involve conceptual understanding supplemented by practical tutorials for you to get up to speed on what some consider a revolutionary piece of technology. By Alfred Tommy.
Tags product-and-design devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis
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Understanding enterprise messaging APIs and protocols
Posted on September 25, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In this article we'll explore the world of messaging APIs and protocols. We'll identify why developers depend on them and focus on the capabilities of some of the most commonly used messaging APIs and protocols. By Callum Jackson, Richard J. Coppen.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd data-and-analytics
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Case-study: Building a Low Code automation platform with OpenFaaS
Posted on September 23, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Few Enterprise IT departments would dare select something else than AWS, Azure or GCP as their "infra baseline".The Big three were careful to provide similar cloud offerings, but different enough so that regardless of which one you would choose, you would be signing off for a vendor lock-in from day one. By Veselin Pizurica.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis business-and-emerging-tech
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gRPC for microservices communication
Posted on September 19, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Microservices architecture has become a popular choice for developing software applications. In a microservice architecture, the microservices often need to communicate with each other. Compared to the traditional RESTful web API, a gRPC based RPC framework can be a better alternative for microservices communication. By Pankaj.
Tags architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering backend-development