Tag: 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
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Implement step-up authentication with Amazon Cognito
Posted on September 25, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this blog post, you'll learn how to protect privileged business transactions that are exposed as APIs by using multi-factor authentication (MFA) or security challenges. These challenges have two components: what you know (such as passwords), and what you have (such as a one-time password token). By using these multi-factor security controls, you can implement step-up authentication to obtain a higher level of security when you perform critical transactions. By Salman Moghal, Mahmoud Matouk, and Ozair Sheikh.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd security-and-privacy product-and-design
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PyTorch on Google Cloud: How to train PyTorch models on AI Platform
Posted on September 23, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
PyTorch has been predominantly used in research and in recent years it has gained tremendous traction in the industry as well due to its ease of use and deployment. By Rajesh Thallam, Vaibhav Singh.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics backend-development
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How to run a Stable Diffusion server on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Posted on September 22, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Open-sourced alternative to OpenAI's gated DALL·E 2 with comparable quality, Stable Diffusion offers something to everyone: end-users can generate images virtually for free, developers can embed the model into their service, ML engineers can investigate and modify the code, and researchers have full leeway to push the state of the art even further. By Iulia Turc.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd data-and-analytics
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Huawei CSO: Open-source can play a key role in creating a sustainable future
Posted on September 21, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Open-source technology can play an important role in tackling the climate emergency by offering greater opportunities for collaboration and shared learning on key issues. By Leigh Mc Gowran.
Tags software-engineering leadership-and-career product-and-design miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure
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How agile project managers lead software development teams to success
Posted on September 18, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Whether you're building websites for an ad agency or software for a company, it's important to understand how to lead your team to success and make your customer happy. Here's what you need to be an agile PM, also known as a Scrum Master. By Donovan Rittenbach.
Tags software-engineering product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career