Tag: Architecture and apis
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Introduction to message brokers -- Apache Kafka vs. RabbitMQ
Posted on May 8, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
If you're looking for a message broker for your next project, read on to get an overview of to of the most popular open source solutions out there. Introduction by Vitaliy Samofal.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics
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How I migrate Node.js app to serverless using Lambda & API Gateway & Terraform
Posted on May 6, 2019, Level advanced Resource Length long
Herve Khg published this hands on guide how he goes about migrating projects to serverless. The guise only focuses on the terraform code for building the infrastructure, not on the app code itself.
Tags frontend-and-mobile how-to devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure
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Lambda deployment frameworks compared
Posted on April 19, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A comparison piece by Yan Cui about underlying plumbing when deploying Lambda function to AWS. One needs to be able manage the configuration for functions as well as other related resources such as API Gateway, CloudWatch log groups and IAM policies.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure frontend-and-mobile
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Building self-served ETL pipeline for third-party data ingestion
Posted on April 18, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An article by Nikolaos Tsipas from Skyscanner with help of colleagues Omar Kooheji and Michael Okarimia about how to solve the puzzle when there is a need to import datasets from external sources, and make them available for querying. Examples of imported data include: analytics metrics, advertising data, and currency exchange rates, all of which are used by Skyscanner engineers and data scientists.
Tags data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis
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Kafka-Streams -- road to autoscaling via Kubernetes
Posted on April 16, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
This article is based on the talk Scale in / Scale out with Kafka-Streams and Kubernetes from Xebicon'18. Loïc Divad is the author of this article and he aims to present a few advantages that come with specific practices related to Kafka-Streams like containerization and orchestration, and especially autoscaling.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics
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The good and the bad of Google Cloud Run
Posted on April 14, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length short
Ben Kehoe wrote a blog post which is a general critique of Cloud Run relative to FaaS and managed API services -- and how this is different from AWS Lambda.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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Comparing serverless architecture providers: AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, and other FaaS vendors
Posted on April 12, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
This is comparison between the largest serverless vendors (and some open source alternatives) has all the right metrics. From the pen of Ihor Lobastov published in March 2019.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis
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Replicating success of REST in Event-Driven Architecture
Posted on April 6, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Fran Méndez is author of this piece about Event Driven Architecture (EDA). He explores similarities between Representational State Transfer) (REST) and EDA. It worth noting that REST APIs are still the dominant application integration paradigm today.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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Building stateful apps with serverless functions and Postgres
Posted on April 2, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Tirumarai Selvan, Product Lead at Hasura, published this guide which explores the different ways to deal with application state when writing business logic in serverless functions. Author uses Postgres as the database when talking about these different approaches, and often use Hasura as one of the glue solutions between your serverless functions and your Postgres database.
Tags data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure
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Enriching event-driven architectures with AWS event fork pipelines
Posted on April 1, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An article by Rachel Richardson and Otavio Ferreira about typical modern application architecture and how implement it using AWS tooling. Many customers are choosing to build event-driven applications in which subscriber services automatically perform work in response to events triggered by publisher services.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd
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Understanding microservices with tracing
Posted on March 27, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An interesting article on codacy blog from rtfpessoa. A typical system now is microservices-oriented, distributed and event-driven, and following its flow of information is a complicated endeavor. Moreover, instrumenting such a system to trace the flow of information has, at least historically, been an intricate task.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics
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Litmus: Journey of storage e2e and chaos framework for Kubernetes
Posted on March 26, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Karthik Satchitanand is the author of this article documenting journey of the Litmus project. Project helps evaluate stateless workloads on Kubernetes. It was which was announced & open-sourced during the KubeCon Europe 2018.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis