Tag: Architecture and apis
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A mini-guide: Build a REST API as a Go microservice together with MySQL
Posted on November 10, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length short
In this mini-tutorial, author creates a simple REST-API with a MySQL database. Author have recently found himself coding and deploying a lot of Go microservices and this is his experience and advice. By Johan Lejdung.
Tags backend-development architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd
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Using Tableau with Kafka: How to build a real-time SQL dashboard on streaming data
Posted on November 9, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Scott Morris, Software Engineer at Rockset wrote this piece about building a real-time dashboard for operational monitoring and analytics on streaming event data from Kafka, which often requires complex SQL, including filtering, aggregations, and joins with other data sets.
Tags data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis
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GraphQL introduction and integrating GraphQL into your frontend stack
Posted on November 8, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
GraphQL is becoming the new way to use APIs in modern web and mobile apps. Free and powerful, concise course that will introduce you to GraphQL and integrating GraphQL into your frontend stack, in the shortest amount of time possible. By hasura.io.
Tags leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis
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Use Kabanero, Appsody, and Codewind to build a Spring Boot application on Kubernetes
Posted on November 5, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length short
An article about how to create a modern, cloud-native application. New open source tools from IBM - Kabanero, Appsody, and Codewind - were created to make it easier for developers to build and deploy cloud-native applications to Kubernetes. By Hafid Haddouti.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis software-engineering frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure
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From REST to GraphQL: Different way to create API (with Apollo & Node.js)
Posted on October 31, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Dirk Wolthuis wrote this tutorial about moving from REST to GraphQL. If you already have a MySQL database you have an excellent starting point for creating a scalable API.
Tags architecture-and-apis backend-development frontend-and-mobile data-and-analytics
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Why I recommend my clients NOT use KSQL and Kafka Streams
Posted on October 24, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
An article by Jesse Anderson. He recommends his clients not use Kafka Streams because it lacks checkpointing. Kafka Streams also lacks and only approximates a shuffle sort. KSQL sits on top of Kafka Streams and so it inherits all of these problems and then some more.
Tags data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis
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Intro guide to Dockerfile best practices
Posted on October 20, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Tibor Vass wrote this piece about best Dockerfile practices. There are over 1 million Dockerfiles on GitHub today, but not all Dockerfiles are created equally. Efficiency is critical, and this blog series will cover five areas for Dockerfile best practices to help you write better Dockerfiles: incremental build time, image size, maintainability, security and repeatability.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis
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Building a distributed time-series database on PostgreSQL
Posted on October 18, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
TimescaleDB, a time-series database on PostgreSQL, has been production-ready for over two years, with millions of downloads and production deployments worldwide. Authors publicly shared their design, plans, and benchmarks for the distributed version of TimescaleDB. By Mike Freedman and Erik Nordström.
Tags data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis software-engineering
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Handling 'Failure at scale' in Azure Functions triggered by IoT Hub
Posted on October 15, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An article by Stas(Stanislav) Lebedenko about how to tackle exceptions and re-run failed messages. One of the Serverless solution benefits is a performance at scale. As a result, you can get 'Failure at scale' if something goes wrong. Thus it's crucial to introduce error handling for your Azure Functions project early.
Tags architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd
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REST and Hypermedia and GraphQL and gRPC and Event-Driven
Posted on October 14, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An essay on apievangelist.com about their drive to research API industry over the last couple of years in order to help people understand how they can invest in a diverse API toolbox.
Tags architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile
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Why less is more is the secret to cloud-native computing
Posted on October 11, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Jason Bloomberg wrote this article about how it seems that the entire IT infrastructure landscape is advancing so quickly, it might as well be lava under our feet. It is imperative that we find some island, some core of stability, lest the shifting magma of innovation and disruption burn us to a crisp.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis miscellaneous security-and-privacy
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Best practices for running Buildah in a container
Posted on October 3, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
One of the cool things about separating the container runtimes into different tools is that you can start to combine them to help secure one other. An article by Daniel Walsh.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis security-and-privacy