Tag: Cloud and infrastructure
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Cybersecurity teams are reaching their breaking point. We should all be worried
Posted on October 28, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
Stress and burnout are having a massive impact on cybersecurity teams, leaving people and businesses more vulnerable than ever. Cybersecurity professionals are "reaching their breaking point" as ransomware attacks increase and create new risks for people and businesses. By Owen Hughes.
Tags security-and-privacy cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career frontend-and-mobile product-and-design
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How desktop and GPU virtualisation power up automotive innovation
Posted on October 27, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
With the race towards autonomy becoming fiercer, the costs to use these new enabling technologies are rising exponentially. Moreover, the need for talent and experts across the world is forcing companies to shift to remote work. You've probably heard of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) and vGPUs (virtual GPUs), but why would you need one and how could they help your company? By Bertrand Boisseau.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous software-engineering how-to leadership-and-career
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How to fix and debug Docker Containers like a superhero
Posted on October 21, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
While containers help developers rapidly build and run cross-platform applications, creating error-free apps remains a constant challenge. And while it's not always obvious how container errors occur, this mystery is even harder for newer developers to unravel. Figuring out how to debug Docker containers can seem daunting. By Tyler Charboneau.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure
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Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server exciting new backup and restore enhancements
Posted on October 17, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Backup and restore are key pillars for business continuity and disaster recovery offerings for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. We're excited to announce new features including Fast Restore, Geo Restore and Custom Restore Points to allow you more fine-grained control on your DR plan to achieve the RPO and RTO objectives. In this post we'll share an overview of each of these new features. By Varun Dhawan.
Tags data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development devops-and-ci-cd
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Live streaming commerce: A playbook
Posted on October 14, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
To better assist customers with product discovery, retailers are discovering and leveraging innovative ways like live streaming. Live streaming commerce is an interactive social commerce tool that combines video streaming and TV entertainment formats like talk shows and chat. By Shantala Raman.
Tags miscellaneous data-and-analytics leadership-and-career how-to cloud-and-infrastructure
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Google Firebase with dotnet6
Posted on October 10, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Google Firestore is a document-oriented database that has some neat features for building modern apps as part of the Firebase offering. In most respects, I find it is conceptually similar to AWS Amplify on the surface. Having now worked with both, they feel very different in practice. By Charles Chen.
Tags data-and-analytics product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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The first RISC: John Cocke and the IBM 801
Posted on October 9, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
How a maverick genius at IBM helped to change the course of computing forever. The RISC idea has now been around for around fifty years and it's been the subject of debate and a degree of controversy for much of that period. By Babbage.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous data-and-analytics leadership-and-career
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Different token types and formats explained
Posted on October 3, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
When building security solutions using OAuth and OpenID Connect (OIDC), we frequently discuss tokens. Sometimes these systems are even referred to as token-based architectures. By Jonas Iggbom.
Tags product-and-design frontend-and-mobile security-and-privacy cloud-and-infrastructure
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Five ways to reduce costs with containers
Posted on October 1, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In this article, Google Cloud Product Manager Rachel Tsao explores how to save on compute costs with modern container platforms. Many tech companies and startups are built to operate under a certain degree of pressure and to efficiently manage costs and resources. These pressures have only increased with inflation, geopolitical shifts, and supply chain concerns, however, creating urgency for companies to find ways to preserve capital while increasing flexibility. The right approach to containers can be crucial to navigating these challenges. By Rachel Tsao.
Tags architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure
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Journey of a microservice application in the Kubernetes world
Posted on September 30, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length short
Tutorial describing how to deploy a webhooks application on a real production cluster. We will create this cluster on Civo. Civo is a cloud provider with a unique offering of managed Kubernetes clusters based on k3s. By Luc Juggery.
Tags architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure
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Designing asynchronous microservices with AsyncAPI
Posted on September 29, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In the microservices world, it's essential to design applications carefully so they scale and function efficiently. When we build services, it's also important to keep performance in mind so that microservices remain performant as they grow in size. By Vyom Srivastava.
Tags architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure
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Introducing workerd: Open source workers runtime
Posted on September 28, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Introduction to workerd, the JavaScript/Wasm runtime based on the same code that powers Cloudflare Workers. workerd is Open Source under the Apache License version 2.0. workerd shares most of its code with the runtime that powers Cloudflare Workers, but with some changes designed to make it more portable to other environments. By Kenton Varda.
Tags architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure security-and-privacy