Tag: Architecture and apis
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How to optimize large scale serverless applications for operational excellence
Posted on December 25, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Managing applications at scale often comes up as one of the biggest concerns for businesses; How can it work smoothly? How do we monitor so many resources? By Taavi Rehemägi.
Tags architecture-and-apis software-engineering devops-and-ci-cd
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Build a serverless app using Go and Azure functions
Posted on December 19, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Webhook backend is a popular use case for FaaS (Functions-as-a-service) platforms. Using a serverless function, it's quite convenient to encapsulate the webhook functionality and expose it in the form of an HTTP endpoint. By Abhishek Gupta.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design backend-development
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Serverless decision service
Posted on December 18, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Serverless is definitely a trend that enables organisations to just manage what matters to them rather than the whole infrastructure to run their business. Serverless Decision Service seems to be an answer to business agility that drives the business performance as it will take the worry and efforts of how to run operational decisions away from organisations. By Arash Aghlara.
Tags architecture-and-apis security-and-privacy
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Handling webhooks with EventBridge, SAM and SAR
Posted on December 17, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Applications author worked on in the last decade were rarely isolated from the rest of the world. Most of the time, they had many interactions with other applications out there. From time to time, some of these integrations are using WebSockets, which makes our integration realtime. By Slobodan Stojanović.
Tags architecture-and-apis security-and-privacy data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure
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Developing micro-microservices in C on Red Hat OpenShift
Posted on December 16, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
For optimal runtime resource usage and millisecond startup times, though, it remains hard to beat C. Comparatively few people in the IT industry have experience implementing middleware components in C. This fact is ironic because C is an ideal vehicle for implementing truly micro microservices. By Kevin Boone.
Tags architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile product-and-design software-engineering devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure
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Auth0 introduces adaptive MFA
Posted on December 15, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Adaptive MFA improves security and customer experience. According to Dashlane, the average US internet user has over 150 online accounts, with that number projected to double by 2022. By Randy Nasson and Antonio Fuentes.
Tags security-and-privacy devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career
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Good-bye ESNI, hello ECH!
Posted on December 8, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
Most communication on the modern Internet is encrypted to ensure that its content is intelligible only to the endpoints, i.e., client and server. Encryption, however, requires a key and so the endpoints must agree on an encryption key without revealing the key to would-be attackers. By Christopher Patton.
Tags security-and-privacy architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd product-and-design
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Microfrontends: expensive recipe for frontend applications
Posted on December 6, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
Microfrontends is a new trend in the frontend world however, the idea of being able to compose an application out of other independent applications is not new. By Sergio Martino.
Tags frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis product-and-design
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10 docker security best practices
Posted on November 30, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Docker containers and Kubernetes are the driving force of a modern software development life cycle. Although Docker is a safer option than working on the host machine directly, many potential security issues may arise while working with containers. By Sofija Simic, an aspiring technical writer at phoenixNAP.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd security-and-privacy architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career
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Learn how to use webhooks by connecting NodeJS, IFTTT and Twitter
Posted on November 28, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this guide, you'll learn what webhooks are and how they work. You'll then put together a simple Webhook integration for IFTTT and Twitter, using Node and a simple Express app. By Robbie Cahill.
Tags how-to architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics backend-development product-and-design frontend-and-mobile
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Why Gatsby chose headless WordPress for our blog
Posted on November 25, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Back when Gatsby first launched we produced all of our content — including blog, landing pages, and documentation — in a public GitHub repo. That approach just made sense for an open-source software company where most of the team were web developers. And it worked fine ... for a while. By Hashim Warren.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development architecture-and-apis
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Pulsar advantages over Kafka
Posted on November 19, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Recently, author has been looking at Pulsar and how it compares to Kafka. A quick search will show you that there is a current war between the two most famous open source messaging systems. By Javier Ramos.
Tags data-and-analytics devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis product-and-design