Tag: Cloud and infrastructure
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How DevSecOps teams should approach API security
Posted on June 13, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A recommended setup that addresses the unique concerns of developers, security and DevOps teams. It is common for these roles to lack a unified vision on how they approach API security. Therefore, in this post, I will provide a recommended API security setup that benefits all parties involved. By Gary Archer.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd frontend-and-mobile security-and-privacy
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What is CPU cache and how does it impact performance?
Posted on June 11, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Imagine your computer's CPU as the engine of a powerful sports car, tirelessly driving it towards your destination. The CPU cache, in this case, acts like the high-octane fuel needed to keep the engine revved up, ensuring smooth and efficient operation. By Faraz Khan.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design software-engineering how-to
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From polling to websockets: Improving order tracking user experience
Posted on June 10, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Where is my order? Is the app stuck? Even when everything else in an application is polished, the user experience might be far from delightful if the information on the screen rarely updates. Displaying up-to-date and often updating information on an application view inspires confidence in the quality of the product and the prospect of getting what you ordered. By Tero Laitinen.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics
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A brief history of MicroStack
Posted on June 7, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
OpenStack is no doubt a wonderful and successful piece of software. It allows you to create your own cloud infrastructure, and thanks to its open-source nature, it's free to use for everyone. By Andre Ruiz.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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Revolutionize business websites with Copilot in Power Pages
Posted on June 3, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
This article demonstrates how to use Arm64EC in a C++ application. The application you will implement performs the multiplication of two pseudo-randomly generated square matrices. By Dawid Borycki.
Tags data-and-analytics leadership-and-career frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd ai-and-machine-learning
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Using Arm64EC with Windows 11
Posted on June 2, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
This article demonstrates how to use Arm64EC in a C++ application. The application you will implement performs the multiplication of two pseudo-randomly generated square matrices. By Dawid Borycki.
Tags miscellaneous product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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Serverless API on AWS, Azure and GCP - Deployment and benchmark
Posted on June 1, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this article, author has created a serverless Express API and deployed it on AWS, Azure, and GCP to evaluate each platform's performance. After conducting load tests using K6, I found that Azure and AWS performed comparably well (slightly better for Azure), while GCP lagged due to significant cold starts (up to 5 seconds when speaking to a Database). By Aurélien BETTINI.
Tags architecture-and-apis product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure
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How to keep docker secrets secure: Complete guide
Posted on May 29, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Secret values such as API keys, passwords, and certificates need to be safely handled throughout the software development process and your app's runtime. Exposure of secrets can be catastrophic, as unauthorized actors could use the credentials to perform privileged interactions with your services. By James Walker.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd security-and-privacy cloud-and-infrastructure
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Cloud sustainability and the path to green software
Posted on May 28, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In an increasingly sustainability‑conscious world, cloud software, services, and infrastructure are no longer evaluated only in terms of performance, resilience, scalability, and reliability, but also according to their environmental impact. So, considering cloud sustainability means tools impact on the environment needs to be observed. By aster.cloud.
Tags leadership-and-career miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure
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Web app performance root cause analysis with Application Insights
Posted on May 24, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Having the ability to identify clear root cause for incidents in production workloads is valuable, the best way to prevent future incidents is to understand what caused past ones. Of course you can have a good set of load tests but still, incidents in production environments can happen and it's crucial to have available data that can help to understand what happened so application can be improved and prevent replications. By LuisLopes.
Tags frontend-and-mobile product-and-design software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure
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Deploying securely into Azure architecture with Terraform Cloud and HCP Vault
Posted on May 23, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Learn how to build a secure infrastructure as code workflow with Terraform Cloud dynamic provider credentials, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and HCP Vault. By David Wright, Arnaud Lheureux.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd leadership-and-career
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Building and deploying MySQL Raft at Meta
Posted on May 19, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
At Meta, we run one of the largest deployments of MySQL in the world. The deployment powers the social graph along with many other services, like Messaging, Ads, and Feed. Over the last few years, we have implemented MySQL Raft, a Raft consensus engine that was integrated with MySQL to build a replicated state machine. By Anirban Rahut, Abhinav Sharma, Yichen Shen, Ahsanul Haque.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis product-and-design