Tag: Architecture and apis
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Introducing QALM, Uber's QoS load management framework
Posted on July 19, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Article by Scott Yao and Ping Jin from Uber engineering team. It is about their experience how they proactively manage Uber's traffic loads based on the criticality of requests, they built QoS Aware Load Management (QALM), a dynamic load shedding framework for incoming requests based on criticality.
Tags software-engineering leadership-and-career architecture-and-apis
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Introduction to AWS Well-Architected Framework
Posted on July 3, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An interesting article on devopedia about Amazon Web Services' Weell-Architected framework (WAFR). Cloud platforms offer a number of services. A typical application can use one or more of these services, each of which can be configured in a number of different ways. AWS Well-Architected Framework (WAFR) offers a set of guidelines and best practices to help practitioners migrate, manage and optimize their applications and their operations on the AWS cloud.
Tags software-engineering architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure
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The Right Way™ to do Serverless in Python
Posted on July 2, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Michael Lavers published this interesting piece about serverless in Python. In this blog post author takes a brief tour of serverless as it applies to Python as well as some handy tips and tricks to help you get your footing in serverless domain.
Tags software-engineering architecture-and-apis backend-development
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GraphQL, everything you need to know
Posted on June 8, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Weblab Technology post about what GraphQL is all about and how it's different from the traditional approach. The purpose of this article is to highlight the major features associated with GraphQL along with discussing the significant pros and cons associated with this particular API specification.
Tags software-engineering data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis
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How to build your own serverless platform
Posted on June 5, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this post, Tomasz Janczuk, will provide a blueprint for building your own serverless platform, based on the lessons learned from working on Auth0 Extend in the recent years.
Tags architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd
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Angular security -- Authentication with JSON Web Tokens (JWT), complete guide
Posted on May 26, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Angular university brought you this a step-by-step guide for both designing and implementing JWT-based Authentication in an Angular application. The goal here is to discuss JWT-based Authentication Design and Implementation in general.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile security-and-privacy architecture-and-apis
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Event Sourcing made Simple
Posted on May 18, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Neat article by Philippe Creux, Ruby and Rails developer at kickstarter, about implementation a minimal event sourcing framework at Kickstarter to power d.rip. Event Sourcing is to data what Git is to code. It's simple and it has made their life so much better! Read on!
Tags software-engineering architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics
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Resiliency in distributed systems
Posted on May 15, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Rajeev Bharshetty neat article about why we need consider resiliency in software development. Resiliency of a system is directly proportional to its up-time and availability. The more resilient the systems, the more available it is to serve users.
Tags architecture-and-apis software-engineering
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Reusing & composing GraphQL APIs with GraphQL bindings
Posted on May 12, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Graphcool published tutorial about GraphQL bindings. With GraphQL bindings you can embed existing GraphQL APIs into your GraphQL server. In this article, they present a new application of schema stitching which makes it particularly easy to reuse, compose and share existing GraphQL APIs: GraphQL bindings.
Tags data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis
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Developing a deeper understanding of Apache Kafka architecture
Posted on May 1, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length short
Insidebigdata team wrote this article in which they provide 30,000 feet overview of Apache Kafka architecture. Kafka, the distributed streaming platform, features an architecture that provides application messaging that is very clear.
Tags architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics
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Splitting up Terraform & state file separation
Posted on April 12, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Site reliability engineer Matt Ouille's article about terraform state files. Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. State files literally are the single source of truth, as far as Terraform is concerned, in regard to your infrastructure.
Tags software-engineering devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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Comparing AWS Lambda performance of Node.js, Python, Java, C# and Go
Posted on March 10, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Yun Zhi Li -- VP of Engineering APAC at continoHQ -- wrote this article as a reaction to comparison of lambdas done in previous year by Yan Cui. He noticed that despite AWS adding more languages to lambda runtime, old languages were not neglected. In the article he reviewed and updated runtime performance benchmark of all five programming languages supported by AWS Lambda.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure software-engineering