Tag: Architecture and apis
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Exploring different mental models
Posted on April 17, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
A mental model reflects an individual's beliefs, values, and assumptions. As those are internal, we need to somehow express them in order to learn and improve. Causal Loop Diagram (CLD) is a powerful technique from Systems thinking. By Yi Lv
Tags leadership-and-career architecture-and-apis
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The 4 most common API developer portal mistakes
Posted on April 15, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
How (not) to put your APIs in a freezer while implementing a Frankensite or an API Ghosttown. In this article we will investigate developer portal anti-patterns -- common solutions to developer portal problems where the solution is ineffective and may result in undesired consequences. By Diliny Corlosquet.
Tags architecture-and-apis software-engineering frontend-and-mobile
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The benefits and trade-offs of going serverless
Posted on April 9, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
Ovie Okeh is the author of this article on logrocket.com about a journey from monolithic apps running on a server to flexible units running on ephemeral instances. So why is the serverless popular? What does the term serverless mean?
Tags frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career devops-and-ci-cd
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Aggregator Leaf Tailer: An alternative to lambda architecture for real-time analytics
Posted on April 7, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Aggregator Leaf Tailer (ALT) is the data architecture favored by web-scale companies, like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google, for its efficiency and scalability. In this blog post, I will describe the Aggregator Leaf Tailer architecture and its advantages for low-latency data processing and analytics. By Dhruba Borthakur.
Tags architecture-and-apis software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure
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Best practices for microservices on kubernetes
Posted on April 4, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
There are several best practices for building microservices architecture properly. In this article author mentions the best practices with some new rules dedicated especially for microservices deployed on Kubernetes platform. By Piotr Minkowski.
Tags architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development
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Attack matrix for Kubernetes
Posted on April 2, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Security research software engineer Yossi Weizman put together this guide for considering new security challenges when moving workloads to Kubernetes.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis backend-development
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GitOps using Helm3 and Flux for Node.js and Express.js Microservice
Posted on April 1, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this tutorial author will show you how to build a GitOps pipeline for a Node.js application built with Express.js. The application was created in an earlier tutorial. Rather than deploying new versions manually, flux will deploy it to Kubernetes whenever a build of the Docker image is available. By Alex Ellis.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis backend-development
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Kubernetes Canary deployment with Gitlab CI
Posted on March 31, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
We're using GitlabCI and a manual GitOps approach to implement and perform Canary Kubernetes deployments. They use a manual approach and alter/create core-Kubernetes resources to perform a Canary deployment. This is mainly for understanding how a Canary deployment works. By Kim Wuestkamp.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis
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Graphql vs REST: Which one is better? (2020)
Posted on March 30, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
When you need to build an API, your mind will likely jump to REST, the de facto standard for API creation. However, this is changing with the increase of GraphQL popularity. This post was originally posted in May 2019 and updated in March 2020. Published by João Inez on imaginarycloud.com.
Tags architecture-and-apis backend-development frontend-and-mobile
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Serverless Service Mesh with Knative and Linkerd
Posted on March 29, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Charles Pretzer wrote this piece about how to use Linkerd with Knative. Two of the most popular serverless platforms for Kubernetes are Knative and OpenFaaS, and there's a lot of existing content on using Linkerd and OpenFaaS together.
Tags architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure
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How to work from home: 20 tips from people who do it successfully
Posted on March 27, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
Working from home is awesome ... right up until the cat throws up on your computer. And your neighbor, who you can only assume is building a time machine, starts firing up all sorts of power tools and noisy machinery across the street. Written by Erik Devaney.
Tags leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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Get started quickly with kubernetes logging
Posted on March 14, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An article about how to get started with logging in Kubernetes. This topic is quite extensive as there are many components to consider before having a complete perspective of what's happening inside your applications. By Erin Baez.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis