Tag: Cloud and infrastructure
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Delta Lake and MinIO for multi-cloud data lakes
Posted on August 31, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Delta Lake is an open-source storage framework that is used to build data lakes on top of object storage in a Lakehouse architecture. Delta Lake supports ACID transactions, scalable metadata handling and unified streaming and batch data processing. By Matt Sarrel.
Tags leadership-and-career data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure
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Seven ways to reduce MySQL costs in the cloud
Posted on August 30, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
With the economy slowing down and inflation raging in many parts of the world, your organization will love you if you find ways to reduce the costs of running their MySQL databases. This is especially true if you run MySQL in the cloud, as it often allows you to see the immediate effect of those savings, which is what this article will focus on. By Peter Zaitsev.
Tags backend-development leadership-and-career devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics
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Understanding asynchronous APIs
Posted on August 29, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
If you've worked mostly with REST APIs, you might not be as familiar with asynchronous API protocols like WebSocket and gRPC. Asynchronous APIs allow you to stream data, send multiple requests at the same time, and manage communication intelligently between services, while synchronous APIs require you to make a new request every time you need data. By Melinda Gutermuth.
Tags product-and-design devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure
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AWS CDK - The good, the bad and the scary
Posted on August 28, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) has become, in its short history, a very popular infrastructure-as-code tool. It's not too surprising why - it allows engineers to use richer programming languages to define infrastructure, rather than having to use JSON or YAML. By Mike Roberts.
Tags product-and-design devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career software-engineering
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What is confidential computing?
Posted on August 19, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
With the boom in cloud computing, new types of security threats have emerged. Confidential computing is a solution to the added IT security issues of working with the cloud. By Daniele Buono, James Bottomley, Hubertus Franke, Robert Senger.
Tags product-and-design security-and-privacy cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics
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Cloud platform teams are everywhere — here's why
Posted on August 12, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In HashiCorp's new State of Cloud Strategy survey, 86% of respondents said they rely on cloud platform teams — for a wide variety of very good reasons. Organizations with complex business requirements have long sought ways to simplify operations and boost the productivity of their software development teams. It appears business and IT leaders have found an answer: adopt and empower centralized cloud platform teams. By Jared Ruckle.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career security-and-privacy devops-and-ci-cd
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Steps to emulate k8s Pod Network
Posted on August 10, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Networking is the spine of Kubernetes, but it can be challenging to understand exactly how it is expected to work. There are 4 distinct networking problems to address. By Harinderjit Singh.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career devops-and-ci-cd
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Hidden gems of Google BigQuery
Posted on August 9, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
BigQuery is amazing. It is one of my favorite tools within Google Cloud. Luckily, it looks like Google feels the same and, to the joy of BigQuery fans, keeps adding new features there. By Artem Nikulchenko.
Tags backend-development product-and-design data-and-analytics miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure
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Building open source search app with Appwrite and Meilisearch
Posted on August 7, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
Imagine you are building an inventory or an ecommerce website or a social media of your own, what are the two major things you will have to deal with? A. Database B. Search engine. By Haimantika Mitra.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure
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This is how we scale: Using a centralized logging solution
Posted on August 4, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
Our current centralized logging solution is Logz.io: Cloud Observability for Engineers and most of our application logs are sent there from the k8s cluster. In addition, we use the logging system's alert mechanism to trigger and send alerts to various sources, including email, Slack channels, etc. By Uriah Ahrak.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design architecture-and-apis
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Reduce energy security risk and improve resilience with Microsoft Defender for IoT
Posted on August 3, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
In this blog, author wants to underscore the urgency around cybersecurity, how it's evolving, and how companies can use technology to manage risk. By Darryl Willis.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd product-and-design security-and-privacy cloud-and-infrastructure
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How to mock data in Angular applications
Posted on July 31, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
It's common to use APIs when working with external data sources on some features in Angular. However, you may occasionally work on a feature in parallel without immediate access to the database or API. By Muhammad Amir.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development product-and-design architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure