Tag: Architecture and apis
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Save yourself a lot of pain (and money) by choosing your AWS Region wisely
Posted on June 18, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
Choosing an AWS region is the first decision you have to make when you set up your AWS components. You can't do anything in the AWS Management Console, SDK or CLI without choosing a region. Most AWS customers choose one based on proximity to themselves or to their end users, which sounds like a sensible thing to do. Price calculations using AWS Price List API (2021-05-26). By Ernesto Marquez.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd leadership-and-career
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Why monitoring and observability are critical to your hybrid cloud strategy
Posted on June 17, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
According to a 2020 study, over half of the companies that use the public-cloud said that doing so had improved their ability to meet their business goals. By James Harvey, EMEA CTO at Cisco AppDynamics.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd business-and-emerging-tech
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Extreme HTTP performance tuning: 1.2M API req/s on 4 vCPU EC2 instance
Posted on May 25, 2021, Level advanced Resource Length long
This post will walk you through the performance tuning steps that I took to serve 1.2 million JSON "API" requests per second from a 4 vCPU AWS EC2 instance. For the purposes of this recreated quest, we will ignore most of the dead ends and dark alleyways that I had to struggle through on my solo expedition. By Marc Richards.
Tags software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd backend-development architecture-and-apis
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Streaming microservices with ZIO and Kafka
Posted on May 21, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
The design and implementation of distributed and highly concurrent applications is something we do every day at Scalac. The adoption of distributed systems is a trend that is currently growing, and it's not going to stop. Apart from Kubernetes, Apache Kafka is surely the main reason for this. By Aleksandar Skrbic.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics
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5 feedback loops that avoid software architecture chaos
Posted on May 19, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Product development can be chaotic these days. Planning for these five challenges helps avoid them. By Jim Tyrrell (Red Hat).
Tags architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure
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Introducing PHP on Cloud Functions
Posted on May 4, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Google is bringing support for PHP, a popular general-purpose programming language, to Cloud Functions. With the Functions Framework for PHP, you can write idiomatic PHP functions to build business-critical applications and integration layers. By Brent Shaffer and Vinod Ramachandran @googlecloud.
Tags product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development architecture-and-apis
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Leverage enterprise-scale reference implementations for your cloud adoption
Posted on April 17, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
This blog will discuss the IT team at Tailwind Traders and how they leveraged enterprise-scale reference implementations for the cloud environment they are building. By Thomas Maurer Senior Cloud Advocate, Azure and Sarah Lean, Senior Content Engineer, Azure.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career product-and-design frontend-and-mobile
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Cloud vendor lock-in: the good, the bad and reality
Posted on April 13, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
This is the second part of a mini-series centered around cloud computing; a high-level overview of vendor lock-in and mitigation strategies. By Piotr.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career miscellaneous
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How quantum computing will transform these 9 industries
Posted on April 12, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Quantum computing remains a nascent technology, but its potential is already being felt across many sectors. From healthcare to finance to artificial intelligence, we look at the industries poised to be reshaped by quantum computers. By cbinsights.com.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning
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Tackling Java cold startup times on AWS Lambda with GraalVM
Posted on April 10, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Have you ever tried running a Java application on AWS Lambda? Well, even the simplest Java application takes significant time to start up at first. The reason behind is simple. AWS has to prepare a runtime environment for your application when it executes the first time. This is called cold-start. By Arnold Galovics.
Tags backend-development software-engineering leadership-and-career devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis
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Google beats Oracle in biggest programming copyright Supreme Court case ever
Posted on April 8, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
At long last, programming code's application programming interfaces are protected from Oracle's over-reaching claims. Ten years ago, Oracle argued that Google had infringed Oracle's copyright, by copying the "structure, sequence, and organization" of 37 Java application programming interfaces (APIs) into Android. By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.
Tags backend-development miscellaneous leadership-and-career architecture-and-apis
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Illustrated guide to 12 Factor Apps
Posted on April 5, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The 12 Factor App methodology is an influential pattern to designing scalable application architecture. Here is what that means for application architects and their architecture. By Bob Reselman.
Tags product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career