Tag: Cloud and infrastructure
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User authentication with React and AWS Cognito
Posted on November 5, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
An article explaining how to integrate AWS Cognito with React for user authentication. Cognito collects a user's attributes, it enables simple, secure user authentication, authorization and user management for web and mobile apps. By Carlos Zuniga.
Tags security-and-privacy frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure
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Unikraft and the coming of age of Unikernels
Posted on November 2, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Thanks to their excellent performance, unikernels have always had a great deal of potential for revolutionizing the efficiency of virtualization and cloud deployments. However, after many years and several projects, unikernels, for the most part, have not seen significant, real-world deployment. By Hugo Lefeuvre, Gaulthier Gain, Daniel Dinca, Alexander Jung, Simon Kuenzer, Vlad Bădoiu, Răzvan Deaconescu , Laurent Mathy, Costin Raiciu, Pierre Olivier, Felipe Huici.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure how-to software-engineering security-and-privacy
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Code is everyone's business
Posted on November 2, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
Nearly every company now produces software or applications to enable it to do business. That can include using software as an interface to customer support, enabling e-commerce channels, and powering internal operations to serve customers and keep the business running. By Brian Rue.
Tags leadership-and-career software-engineering data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure
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Swiftly search metadata with Amazon S3 serverless architecture
Posted on October 31, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
As you increase the number of objects in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), you'll need the ability to search through them and quickly find the information you need. By Jiwan Panjiker, Haider Naqvi, and Muthuvelan Swaminathan.
Tags architecture-and-apis product-and-design data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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Choosing a FaaS (Function as a Service) provider in 2021
Posted on October 29, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Function execution platforms really gained rise as more people got tired of setting up full containerized environments for simple code execution. The costs, overall maintenance, and cascading consequences of failures meant more people were looking for a lean context to execute one-off workers in the cloud. By Jesse Martin.
Tags leadership-and-career product-and-design architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure
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Comparing the best web servers: Caddy, Apache, and Nginx
Posted on October 23, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A web server is a piece of software that accepts a network request from a user agent, typically a web browser, and returns either the appropriate response for the request or an error message. Two dominant solutions for HTTP servers today are Apache and Nginx. However, a new player in the space, Caddy Web Server, is gaining traction for its ease of use. By Ayooluwa Isaiah.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis product-and-design data-and-analytics
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How to cancel an HTTP request in Node.js
Posted on October 21, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
If you're making an HTTP request in Node.js there's a good chance you'll want to cancel it if it takes too long to receive a response. Or perhaps you have a slightly more complex situation where you're making multiple requests in parallel, and if one request fails you want to cancel all of them. By Simon Plenderleith.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd backend-development frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design
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Influencing ingress BGP routing using communities and local preference
Posted on October 19, 2021, Level advanced Resource Length long
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is an enormous protocol with a nearly endless list of features, knobs and capabilities. BGP's mechanism for choosing the best path is complex but also well known. You should brush up on that algorithm if you're out of practice. By Nicholas Russo.
Tags security-and-privacy cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd leadership-and-career
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SSH tunneling explained
Posted on October 18, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In this post author will cover different tunneling features as supported by OpenSSH, which helps achieve security use cases such as remote web service access without exposing port on the internet, accessing server behind NAT, exposing local port to the internet. OpenSSH is the most widely used open-source SSH server. It comes pre-installed by default with the vast majority of Linux distributions. By Sakshyam Shah.
Tags security-and-privacy cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design
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Rate limiting with HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress controller
Posted on October 13, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length short
DDoS (distributed denial of service) events occur when an attacker or group of attackers flood your application or API with disruptive traffic, hoping to exhaust its resources and prevent it from functioning properly. Bots and scrapers, too, can misbehave, making far more requests than is reasonable. By Jim O'Connell.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career software-engineering
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Everything I learned in my 1st year as a SWE: GraphQL
Posted on October 12, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
A beginner's crash course in GraphQL & REST APIs. In this series, I'll be sharing all the tools and technologies that I've picked up in my first year in the hopes of helping other entry-level engineers on their journey. By Camila Ramos.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics
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Investigate Node.js high CPU issue in Linux app service
Posted on October 11, 2021, Level advanced Resource Length medium
When running your Node.js application in Azure Linux App Service, you may encounter High CPU consumption issue. By Hanli_Ren.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development software-engineering product-and-design