Tag: Cloud and infrastructure
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GraphQL as a migration strategy for REST APIs
Posted on January 13, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Traditional API architectures like SOAP and REST have been powering the web for a long time. But over the past five years, a change towards a more flexible and frontend-driven approach to API protocols has started, using GraphQL. But moving from a traditional API architecture like REST towards GraphQL can be challenging. Not only does your team need to adapt to GraphQL, but it also means you could be losing your investment in your current API architecture. By Mark Smallcombe.
Tags architecture-and-apis how-to devops-and-ci-cd frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure
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Why the global chip shortage isn't ending anytime soon
Posted on January 8, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The semiconductor chip crisis is real, and it's had a serious impact on our lives. Cars are more expensive and harder to build. Computer makers are rushing to keep up with an insatiable consumer demand for remote work and school devices. Expect low stock and high prices to last until 2023 for GPUs, consoles and many other gadgets. By D. Hardawar @devindra.
Tags miscellaneous leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure
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9 open source alternatives to try in 2022
Posted on January 6, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Whatever tool you are looking for, there are plenty of open source software alternatives to choose from. By Lauren Maffeo.
Tags leadership-and-career product-and-design software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure
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How serverless saved money on my heating bill
Posted on January 5, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Built a serverless application as a weekend project to help me save money on my heating bill. In doing so, I experienced something great about building websites in 2022. By Cameron McHenry.
Tags data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile backend-development product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure how-to
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Flattening forgetting curve with learning-by-doing
Posted on December 27, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
Use technology to your advantage and enhance the retention rates of your training sessions. Classrooms change. Courses change. But the age-old struggle of any learning or development session stays intact. How to retain knowledge gained beyond the training session? And how to apply the concepts taught during training to a real-life scenario? By David Hand.
Tags leadership-and-career miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure
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How Airbnb enables consistent data consumption at scale
Posted on December 25, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this post, we will focus our story on how Minerva drastically simplifies and improves the data consumption experience for our users. Specifically, we will showcase how a unified metric layer, which we call the Minerva API, helps us build versatile data consumption experiences tailored to users with a wide range of backgrounds and varying levels of data expertise.
Tags data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development architecture-and-apis
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Test your APIs further using HTTP Toolkit
Posted on December 24, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length long
If you're a tester or developer who needs to work with APIs across different platforms, HTTP Toolkit is a valuable tool to keep by your side. By Anshul Behl. By Dennis Martinez.
Tags architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career devops-and-ci-cd testing-and-quality cloud-and-infrastructure
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Introduction to ansible-test
Posted on December 23, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
As automation becomes crucial for more and more business cases, there is an increased need to test the automation code itself. This is where ansible-test comes in: developers who want to test their Ansible Content Collections for sanity, unit and integration tests can use ansible-test to achieve testing workflows that integrate with source code repositories. By Anshul Behl.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd testing-and-quality cloud-and-infrastructure
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Google Cloud managed compute platforms: Top 10 blog posts of 2021
Posted on December 20, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
Sure, Google Cloud offers world-class infrastructure, but one of the main reasons that customers choose our platform is to run their applications on one of our managed container platforms: Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), the most scalable and easy to use service from the company that invented Kubernetes; Anthos for managing containers in hybrid and multicloud scenarios; and Cloud Run, our serverless platform for containerized workloads. By @google.com.
Tags miscellaneous leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure how-to
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Why lazy coding practices will ALWAYS cost you more in the long run
Posted on December 19, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
The idea of clean code gained popularity with the publication of Robert Cecil Martin's "Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship" in 2008. However, the principles of clean code date back to the beginning of software development, and Martin's book is an essential manual for people who aim for cleanly written code. It's a programming classic, and if you're serious about coding, you should read this book cover to cover! By Ritesh Shah.
Tags frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis business-and-emerging-tech cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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Async & await at the edge with ReactPHP
Posted on December 16, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length short
PHP 8.1 is out and the hip new feature for non-blocking and asynchronous programming in PHP are fibers. In this post we're going to explore them and see how we at ReactPHP will start with them at the edge. By Cees-Jan Kiewiet.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis backend-development product-and-design frontend-and-mobile
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Managing Active Directory Objects with Azure AD provider for Terraform
Posted on December 15, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Learn how to manage Active Directory Objects with Azure AD Provider for Terraform and see examples of how to authenticate and grant the correct permissions. By Adam Connelly.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure security-and-privacy architecture-and-apis