Tag: 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
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Kubeflow fundamentals: Distributions and installations
Posted on October 10, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
The aim of the series is to walk you through a detailed introduction of Kubeflow, a deep-dive into the various components and how they all come together to deliver a complete MLOps platform. By Jimmy Guerrero.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure ai-and-machine-learning
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Postgres full-text search: Search engine in a database
Posted on October 9, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
So when we say PostgreSQL is the "batteries included database," this is just one reason why. With Postgres, you don't need to immediately look farther than your own database management system for a full-text search solution. If you haven't yet given Postgres' built-in full-text search a try, read on for a simple intro. By Kat Batuigas.
Tags data-and-analytics business-and-emerging-tech architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development
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AWS WAF and CloudFront: How to use them together
Posted on October 5, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Using AWS CloudFront and AWS WAF together, you can add some security to your sites with less work and focus on making features for your users. By Peter Grainger.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd how-to cloud-and-infrastructure security-and-privacy
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How we shipped PostgreSQL 14 on Azure within one day of its release
Posted on October 4, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this blog post, you'll first get a glimpse into some of our favorite features in Postgres 14. These include connection scaling, faster VACUUM, and improvements to crash recovery times. By Ozgun Erdogan.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd how-to leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics
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How to monitor packet loss and latency in the cloud
Posted on September 29, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
NetOps teams have quickly learned the benefits of hosting applications in the cloud. But before they migrated or adopted a few SaaS applications, they knew in the back of their minds that monitoring performance would be difficult. A tiny voice was asking, "How will we monitor packet loss and connection latency, hop-by-hop, when using cloud applications?". By Kevin Woods, Head of Product Marketing.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering how-to cloud-and-infrastructure