Tag: 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
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How to connect R to Google Sheets using googlesheets4
Posted on December 14, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
Manipulating data in sheets can be a tedious task, but if you have at least a bit of a programmer inside you, you can make your work with Google sheets much easier. How – you ask? By connecting R to Google sheets using the googlesheets4 package provided by tidyverse. By Zuzanna.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics
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Are containers always the best way to save money and provide more agility?
Posted on December 13, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
From time to time, it is good to review the solutions that make up your infrastructure. Perhaps there are efficiencies or cost savings to be made. Perhaps your needs as a company have evolved. Or perhaps a new technology or trend is challenging or supplanting existing approaches. By Naomi Scott, Callum Jackson @IBM.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering
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Running VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ on VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
Posted on December 11, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Whether you're integrating multiple microservices or building a new streaming app, you'll need a modern messaging and streaming service. RabbitMQ is one of the most popular open-source messaging and streaming brokers. By Yimeng Liu.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis
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Tiered datastore solution for high data growth MySQL using Distributed SQL Databases (DSQL)
Posted on December 10, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Usually, entities like order, order items etc tend to grow substantially year on year as we scale more and serve large customers. Generally, MySQL is the widely used datastore due to its durable & ACID guarantees. While MySQL is a brilliant tech stack, it comes with the overhead of data maintenance. By Manohar K.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics backend-development leadership-and-career architecture-and-apis
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How to build a powerful e-learning platform using Scala and Redis
Posted on December 9, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Never before has online learning been so accessible. Whether you want to discover more about cryptocurrency, sharpen your programming skills or even just learn a new language, the digital age has gifted everyone access to a phenomenal amount of content. However, over time e-learning has been viewed as just another digital commodity, where users expect all online content to be instantaneous. Speed remains crucial to performance, where any lags or delays in page loading time kills the user's experience. By Redis Growth Team.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous backend-development ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics