Tag: Architecture and apis
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Comparison between Angular and React and their core languages
Posted on October 18, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Dler Ari brings you an article, in which he will compare two of the most popular web technologies in 2018, and also address their history, key differences, core languages used (TypeScript and JavaScript) and so forth.
Tags frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis
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JVM Profiler: open source tool for tracing distributed JVM applications at scale
Posted on October 14, 2018, Level advanced Resource Length long
Bo Yang, Nan Zhu, Felix Cheung, Xu Ning from Uber Engineering team published blog post about JVM Profiles. Data is at the heart of strategic decision-making process at Uber. Right sizing the resources allocated to Spark applications and optimizing the operational efficiency of Uber data infrastructure requires fine-grained insights about these systems, namely their resource usage patterns.
Tags software-engineering backend-development architecture-and-apis miscellaneous devops-and-ci-cd data-and-analytics
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4 edge computing technologies enabling IoT ready network infrastructure
Posted on September 30, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length short
A quick intro into IoT networking. Networks around the world are going through a massive transformation in which edge computing devices and edge infrastructure development hold a key role.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning architecture-and-apis
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Client side performance monitoring with InfluxDB
Posted on September 23, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Interesting reading from Mike Bell about efficient applications monitoring in Agile environment with daily deploys of hundreds of code changes to the web application for customer-facing websites. Each change has the potential to impact performance for better or worse. They carefully monitor KPIs such as page load times to catch regressions, identify opportunities for speedups, and to verify that improvements work in the real world.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis
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Six layout myths busted
Posted on September 20, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An older article encapsulating thoughts by Jen Simmons on topic of six layout myth. Every website reaches for an identical 12-column symmetrical grid. Every site uses the same shapes and patterns over and over. And we are totally bored.
Tags product-and-design miscellaneous frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis
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Django REST with React tutorial
Posted on September 17, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Valentino Gagliardi published on his blog tutorial how to do REST with Django framework 2 and React. If you need quick API prototype quickly and is build for development speed.
Tags backend-development architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile
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Building a RESTful blog APIs using Python and Flask
Posted on September 6, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Olawale Aladeusi blog post about building Application Programming Interface in Python. This shall be a very easy to learn path in creating RESTFUL API using Python and Flask micro-framework.
Tags backend-development architecture-and-apis
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Build a Hello World API with Scala and Akka HTTP
Posted on August 29, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Miguel Lopez short and sweet tutorial about building a Hello World web application with Akka. Akka is a popular actor-based toolkit for building concurrent and distributed applications in the JVM. These applications mostly use Scala or Java.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis backend-development software-engineering frontend-and-mobile
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REST API design -- resource modeling
Posted on August 26, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this older article by Prakash Subramaniam from ThoughtWorks looks at the REST API design best practices. The key abstraction of information in REST is a resource. A resource is a conceptual mapping to a set of entities, not the entity that corresponds to the mapping at any particular point in time.
Tags architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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Optimizing docker images for a faster development workflow
Posted on August 11, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
jobandtalent Engineering published an interesting article on Docker images optimization. Architecture being based on docker means that every change that improves the usage of a resource (time to execute, memory usage, disk space usage, network usage…) in any stage of the process, will have an impact in each one of the environments.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis
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Enterprise integration for Ethereum
Posted on July 27, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Bilgin Ibryam article about Ethereum usage in enterprise. Ethereum is distributed and decentralized, but it is mostly a closed system with the embedded ledger, the currency, and the executing nodes. The most popular open source Java integration library -- Apache Camel supports Ethereum's JSON-RPC API now.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech leadership-and-career architecture-and-apis
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Scalaz 8 IO vs Akka (typed) actors vs Monix
Posted on July 24, 2018, Level advanced Resource Length long
There's a couple of hot development areas in the Scala ecosystem, and the competition between the various side-effect wrappers is one of the most interesting. Adam Warski article comparing various options and trying to find the answer to the question: Can you really replace an Actor with an IO or Task?
Tags architecture-and-apis backend-development software-engineering