Tag: Architecture and apis
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Exploring an Apache Kafka to Pub/Sub migration: Major considerations
Posted on January 28, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In many cases, Google's Pub/Sub messaging and event distribution service can successfully replace Apache Kafka, with lower maintenance and operational costs, and better integration with other Google Cloud services. By Leonid Yankulin.
Tags architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning cloud-and-infrastructure
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Successfully porting complex data-driven frontends to React with GraphQL
Posted on January 25, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
When porting existing code to React, there is a couple of things to look out for. This article shares my experience while porting a section of a Rails app to React and consuming data through GraphQL. By Neel Barthel.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development architecture-and-apis
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Create a React Native image recognition app with Google Vision API
Posted on January 23, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Aman Mittal created this tutorial which focuses on utilizing Google Cloud Vision API for you React Native App. Google Cloud Vision API is a machine learning tool that can classify details from an image provided as an input into thousands of different categories with pre-trained API models.
Tags miscellaneous architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure
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Parse, don't validate
Posted on January 21, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
Alexis King wrote this piece about his concise, simple way to explain what it means to practice type-driven design. He has now a single, snappy slogan that encapsulates what type-driven design means to him, and better yet, it's only three words long: Parse, don't validate.
Tags software-engineering architecture-and-apis
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Cost matters! The serverless edition
Posted on January 18, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
An article by by Leon Stigter about serverless development model and how that model works on AWS Fargate, which allows you to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters.
Tags architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure
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faasd: lightweight Serverless for your Raspberry Pi
Posted on January 15, 2020, Level inttermediate Resource Length medium
Kick the tires with faasd today, for a lightweight serverless experience that doesn't require Kubernetes. Instead it uses containerd and the existing OpenFaaS ecosystem. By Alex Ellis.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis
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How to apply Lean Principles to your startup's productivity and time management
Posted on January 10, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
John Rampton wrote this article about how focusing on one thing at a time is a very good start to your productivity.
Tags leadership-and-career architecture-and-apis miscellaneous software-engineering how-to
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Introducing Mocking Hans - An open source tool for creating fake APIs
Posted on January 9, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An article by Kevin about Hans. Hans is a small Node application for faking APIs - but not just a single REST API using HTTP. It allows for creating multiple APIs using different ports and protocols (like native WebSockets or even GraphQL).
Tags architecture-and-apis backend-development frontend-and-mobile
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Add serverless authentication with almost no code
Posted on January 8, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Robert J. Berger wrote this piece about a template of how to create a basic Re-Frame SPA with authentication from AWS Amplify with almost not coding and without having to set up your own backend authentication infrastructure.
Tags security-and-privacy architecture-and-apis how-to
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Pivotal Web Services, SSL, and a Custom Domain
Posted on January 6, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Pivotal Web Services (PWS) is a great place to set up push button deployments. It's cheaper than Heroku and has some great features. By Austin.
Tags frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis backend-development software-engineering
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An overview of server-side HTTP APIs in Go
Posted on January 4, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
An tutorial by Abhishek Gupta in which he explores the net/http package in Golang which provides the server and client-side APIs for HTTP services.
Tags backend-development software-engineering architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile
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How does Alibaba ensure performance of system components in a 10,000-node Kubernetes cluster?
Posted on January 3, 2020, Level advanced Resource Length long
The production environment of Alibaba consists of more than 10,000 containerized applications, with the entire network of Alibaba being a massive system using millions of containers running on more than 100,000 hosts. This is how they run it. By alibaba.com
Tags devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis