Tag: Cloud and infrastructure
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Tips and tricks for developing a serverless cloud app
Posted on May 24, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length short
An article by Miles Buckley and with contribution by Sebastian Hesse about how to pursue serverless cloud app development. As organizations search for flexible and scalable data solutions, the pull for going serverless has never been stronger.
Tags architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure
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Tracking and reminders in AWS Amplify
Posted on May 21, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A guide by Jan Hesters how to track which features your users use in AWS Amplify and send them emails, push-notifications and SMS based on their behavior.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis product-and-design frontend-and-mobile
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API design: Why you should use links, not keys, to represent relationships in APIs
Posted on May 17, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An article by Martin Nally from Google about how expressing relationships is very important in APIs. The most common way that API developers express relationships is to expose database keys, or proxies for them, in the fields of the entities they expose.
Tags architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure software-engineering backend-development
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How I migrate Node.js app to serverless using Lambda & API Gateway & Terraform
Posted on May 6, 2019, Level advanced Resource Length long
Herve Khg published this hands on guide how he goes about migrating projects to serverless. The guise only focuses on the terraform code for building the infrastructure, not on the app code itself.
Tags frontend-and-mobile how-to devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure
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Avoid ugly if / else blocks and make your code modular with Strategy
Posted on May 1, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Iskander Samatov is this introduction into Strategy design pattern and JavaScript. One particular piece of syntax that is unlikely to ever change in ES6 is if / else and switch statements.
Tags frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure software-engineering
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9 headless CMS options for your JAMstack site
Posted on April 30, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
An article by Nebojsa Radakovic from bejamas.io, in which author shares their experience with the headless CMSs they used so far on about 30 JAMstack projects. JAMstack is a modern web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt Markup.
Tags frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure
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How on-demand pricing slashed our DynamoDB bill by 90 percent
Posted on April 27, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Ashwin Bhat published this short article about their experience with a new pricing structure for DynamoDB called On-Demand Mode. With it, your capacity costs are strictly a function of how many capacity units you consume, rather than how many you would have provisioned in Provisioned Capacity Mode.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics
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Lambda deployment frameworks compared
Posted on April 19, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A comparison piece by Yan Cui about underlying plumbing when deploying Lambda function to AWS. One needs to be able manage the configuration for functions as well as other related resources such as API Gateway, CloudWatch log groups and IAM policies.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure frontend-and-mobile
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The good and the bad of Google Cloud Run
Posted on April 14, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length short
Ben Kehoe wrote a blog post which is a general critique of Cloud Run relative to FaaS and managed API services -- and how this is different from AWS Lambda.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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Comparing serverless architecture providers: AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, and other FaaS vendors
Posted on April 12, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
This is comparison between the largest serverless vendors (and some open source alternatives) has all the right metrics. From the pen of Ihor Lobastov published in March 2019.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis
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Replicating success of REST in Event-Driven Architecture
Posted on April 6, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Fran Méndez is author of this piece about Event Driven Architecture (EDA). He explores similarities between Representational State Transfer) (REST) and EDA. It worth noting that REST APIs are still the dominant application integration paradigm today.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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COBOL and the enterprise business programming paradigm
Posted on April 4, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
COBOL is nearly 60 years old. Jonathan Sayles examines how COBOL is still used today and it is not going anywhere soon. Besides that "As many as 75% of all rewrite projects have resulted in failure" and with the redoubtable Reuters reported that when Commonwealth Bank of Australia replaced its core COBOL platform in 2012, it took five years -- and cost $749.9 million.
Tags software-engineering miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure