Tag: Cloud and infrastructure
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Building stateful apps with serverless functions and Postgres
Posted on April 2, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Tirumarai Selvan, Product Lead at Hasura, published this guide which explores the different ways to deal with application state when writing business logic in serverless functions. Author uses Postgres as the database when talking about these different approaches, and often use Hasura as one of the glue solutions between your serverless functions and your Postgres database.
Tags data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure
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Enriching event-driven architectures with AWS event fork pipelines
Posted on April 1, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An article by Rachel Richardson and Otavio Ferreira about typical modern application architecture and how implement it using AWS tooling. Many customers are choosing to build event-driven applications in which subscriber services automatically perform work in response to events triggered by publisher services.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd
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How to run HA MongoDB on IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Posted on March 19, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
A tutorial by Janakiram MSV about running highly available MongoDB cluster on IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is a managed Kubernetes offering running in IBM Cloud. It is designed to deliver powerful tools, intuitive user experience, and built-in security for rapid delivery of applications that can be bound to cloud services related to IBM Watson, IoT, DevOps and data analytics.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd data-and-analytics
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Seven tips on Firebase security rules and the Admin SDK
Posted on March 14, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
Posted by Hiranya Jayathilaka and Rachel Myers this article focuses on Firebase offers security rules -- a powerful mechanism that helps enforce the security and logical correctness of your apps. The backend services use security rules to authorize and validate the requests made by client apps, and make sure they adhere to the policies that app developers have put in place.
Tags data-and-analytics security-and-privacy cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design
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gRPC and Protocol Buffers as an alternative to JSON REST APIs
Posted on March 11, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Rafael Sales wrote this article about gRPC as alternative to REST APIs. gRPC is an open-source remote procedure call framework and Protocol Buffers is a mechanism for serializing structured data.
Tags backend-development software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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Single-Node Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi with MicroK8s and Ubuntu
Posted on February 27, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Blog post by Canonical in which they do excellent job of explaining how to setup and run Ubuntu Server on a Raspberry Pi with MicroK8s on-top to provide a single-node Kubernetes host for development and testing.
Tags miscellaneous devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure
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Running Concourse-based CD on Azure Kubernetes
Posted on February 12, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Roman Alekseenkov published this straightforward tutorial about getting Concourse based continous delivery running on Azure Kubernetes. The author guides you through what it takes to stand up and operate your own full CD stack on Kubernetes.
Tags frontend-and-mobile devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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Building a reverse proxy in .NET Core
Posted on January 24, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Andrea Chiarelli published this interesting guide focusing on building a reverse proxy in .NET Core. .NET Core is a free and open-source web framework, offering higher performance than .NET. It is developed by Microsoft and the community.You will learn how to use .NET Core to implement a reverse proxy to overcome specific needs.
Tags frontend-and-mobile software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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How to build Raspberry Pi UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply)
Posted on January 4, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Tutorial by Zach Levine published on howchoo.com. He will teach you how to build your own Raspberry Pi UPS using some simple hardware. You can use this method to power a Raspberry Pi 3, Raspberry Pi Zero, or any other Pi.
Tags software-engineering leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous business-and-emerging-tech
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High availability and scalable reads in PostgreSQL
Posted on January 1, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
A detailed primer on scaling PostgreSQL via streaming replication (with performance measurements) by Lee Hampton -- R&D Engineer at TimescaleDB. Despite popularity of PostgreSQL developers often still choose a non-relational (or "NoSQL") system over PostgreSQL, typically because of one reason: scale. Most developers still underestimate PostgreSQL native scalability.
Tags software-engineering data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career
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Load balancing with HAProxy, Nginx and Keepalived in Linux
Posted on December 30, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Tutorial by Rishi Raj Gautam on linuxhandbook.com focusing on load balancers. Having a proper set up of load balancer allows your web server to handle high traffic smoothly instead of crashing down. In this tutorial, he explains how to setup a load balancer with high availability.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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The agile manager
Posted on December 23, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
An article by Aaron De Smet focusing on the role od agile manager. He tries to explain these fundamental questions: who manages in an agile organization? And what exactly do they do?
Tags leadership-and-career software-engineering miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure