Tag: Architecture and apis
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gRPC and Protocol Buffers as an alternative to JSON REST APIs
Posted on March 11, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Rafael Sales wrote this article about gRPC as alternative to REST APIs. gRPC is an open-source remote procedure call framework and Protocol Buffers is a mechanism for serializing structured data.
Tags backend-development software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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Programming concurrency in C++
Posted on March 7, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
The first in series of articles by Mehreen Tahir about programming C++ and introduce you to the features C++ offers in order to support concurrent programming. C++ was originally designed to support only single thread programming. In every application, there is one default thread.
Tags frontend-and-mobile software-engineering architecture-and-apis
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Structuring applications in Go
Posted on March 5, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An article by Liam Andrew Cura about his Gog journey. For him the hardest part of learning Go was in structuring his application. Go doesn't prescribe any particular project layout or application structure and Go's conventions are mostly stylistic.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile software-engineering architecture-and-apis
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Skaffold for local kubernetes development
Posted on February 26, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Straight to the point guide from Shane Lee aiming to get you running with kubernetes in no time. Great tutorial for anybody new to kubernetes.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering architecture-and-apis
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Common API mistakes and how to avoid them
Posted on February 24, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Thomas Hunter II is author of this guide on hot topic how to avoid common API mistakes. The advice in this article applies to any API. However, some of the issues author considers are easier to encounter when the application is written in a dynamic language, such as JavaScript, versus a more static language, such as Java.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd
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Running Concourse-based CD on Azure Kubernetes
Posted on February 12, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Roman Alekseenkov published this straightforward tutorial about getting Concourse based continous delivery running on Azure Kubernetes. The author guides you through what it takes to stand up and operate your own full CD stack on Kubernetes.
Tags frontend-and-mobile devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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Application metrics in Istio
Posted on January 29, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Mete Atamel authored simple tutorial for adding Application metrics in Istio. The default metrics sent by Istio are useful to get an idea on how the traffic flows in your cluster. However, to understand how your application behaves, you also need application metrics.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis
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Kubernetes ingress controller setup using KOP and Nginx-Ingress
Posted on January 26, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length short
A tutorial by Lokesh Jawane explaining how to set up Kubernetes ingress controller using kops (Kubernetes Operations) & Nginx-Ingress. Kops automates the provisioning of Kubernetes clusters in AWS and GCE. Authors like to think of kops as kubectl for clusters.
Tags frontend-and-mobile devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis
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Building a reverse proxy in .NET Core
Posted on January 24, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Andrea Chiarelli published this interesting guide focusing on building a reverse proxy in .NET Core. .NET Core is a free and open-source web framework, offering higher performance than .NET. It is developed by Microsoft and the community.You will learn how to use .NET Core to implement a reverse proxy to overcome specific needs.
Tags frontend-and-mobile software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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Authentication at Edge with StackPath
Posted on January 22, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
Jason Byrne thoughts on using cloud Edge for some common tasks. As we spread our applications out into serverless microservices, what better place for our entitlement checks than on the CDN?
Tags frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis security-and-privacy
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High availability and scalable reads in PostgreSQL
Posted on January 1, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
A detailed primer on scaling PostgreSQL via streaming replication (with performance measurements) by Lee Hampton -- R&D Engineer at TimescaleDB. Despite popularity of PostgreSQL developers often still choose a non-relational (or "NoSQL") system over PostgreSQL, typically because of one reason: scale. Most developers still underestimate PostgreSQL native scalability.
Tags software-engineering data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career
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Load balancing with HAProxy, Nginx and Keepalived in Linux
Posted on December 30, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Tutorial by Rishi Raj Gautam on linuxhandbook.com focusing on load balancers. Having a proper set up of load balancer allows your web server to handle high traffic smoothly instead of crashing down. In this tutorial, he explains how to setup a load balancer with high availability.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis