Tag: Distributed
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AWS 2025: New features and changes you should know
Posted on January 23, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
AWS is one of the most popular cloud platforms, and it's important to stay updated on what's new. In this blog, we will look at the most important updates to AWS in 2025. These updates include new tools, improved features, and services that will make cloud computing easier, faster, and more cost-effective. By Croma Campus.
Tags app-development distributed aws infosec learning
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Advantages and disadvantages of distributed systems
Posted on October 4, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length short
Distributed systems offer numerous benefits such as scalability and fault tolerance but also present challenges like complexity and data consistency. This article explores both the advantages and disadvantages of distributed systems, providing insights into their impact on modern computing environments. By geeksforgeeks.org.
Tags distributed aws software-architecture cloud
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8 strategies for building resilient distributed systems
Posted on February 19, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length medium
A distributed system is a collection of computer programs that work together to achieve a common goal. For example, Spotify uses a distributed network of servers to store and deliver music and podcasts to its users. By Bassam Ismail and Hanush Kumar.
Tags distributed web-development app-development software-architecture learning
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What is a serverless database? Plus 8 picks for 2024
Posted on January 21, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Today, we're diving deep into serverless databases as one solution for aligning these goals. Specifically, we'll check out what they are, how they work, and what benefits they offer. See, when we build any kind of solution, a big portion of the cost is the infrastructure we use to store and host relevant data. This also has an outsized impact on the quality and success of whatever we're building. By Ronan McQuillan.
Tags nosql serverless open-source distributed database
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Distributed computing system models
Posted on September 21, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length long
Distributed computing refers to a system where processing and data storage are distributed across multiple devices or systems, rather than being handled by a single central device. By @geeksforgeeks.org.
Tags distributed programming learning app-development software-architecture
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Distributed transactions at Scale in Amazon DynamoDB
Posted on August 26, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
It is great to see DynamoDB, and AWS in general, is publishing/sharing more widely than before. A killer feature of DynamoDB is predictability at any scale. Aligned with this predictability tenet, when adding transactions to DynamoDB, the first and primary constraint was to preserve the predictable high performance of single-key reads/writes at any scale. By Murat Demirbas.
Tags aws distributed apis app-development cloud nodejs
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Increase availability & container images caching thanks to kube-image-keeper
Posted on April 4, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length long
At Enix, we manage hundreds of Kubernetes clusters for our customers and our own internal use. On cloud, on premises, big and small, from development to production... And there is one particular issue that hits all these clusters at one point or another: the image retrieval process. By Nicolas Gouze.
Tags docker devops containers distributed apis
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How Web3 and a mesh organizational design can turn challenges into opportunities
Posted on March 4, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
We're in a new era (or at least the early days of a new chapter)—not just a new period in our technological history but also a new paradigm for how people work and contribute to solving problems. One significant challenge I've found in working with leaders is that most organizations are not designed to adapt—let alone thrive—in this new era. By Jen Kelchner.
Tags distributed infosec blockchain web-development app-development
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Various debugging methods in OpenResty
Posted on February 27, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length short
In OpenResty's communication group, developers often ask this question: How do debug in OpenResty? As far as I know, there are some tools in OpenResty that support breakpoint debugging, including a plugin in VSCode, but they are not widely used so far. Including the author agentzh and a few contributors I know, everyone uses the simplest ngx.log and ngx.say to do debugging. By @api7.ai.
Tags programming performance devops distributed apis
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What are Webhook Gateways?
Posted on January 25, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A webhook gateway is a webhook management tool that sits between a webhooks provider and webhooks consumer. It acts as a reverse and forward proxy for webhooks. It can be deployed by both the API provider that sends webhooks and the consumer that receives webhooks to handle webhook events multiplexing and de-multiplexing respectively. By Subomi Oluwalana.
Tags event-driven distributed apis web-development cio
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Event-driven APIs with webhook and API Gateway
Posted on January 24, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
This post elaborates on building event-driven APIs by making use of Webhook and API Gateway, we understand the role of each in this solution. By Bobur Umurzokov.
Tags aws event-driven distributed apis web-development serverless
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AWS Lambda: Resilience under-the-hood
Posted on January 23, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length long
AWS Lambda comprises over 80 services working together to provide the serverless compute service that it offers to customers. Under the hood, many of these services are built on top of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, provisioned within Availability Zones. However, AWS Lambda is a Regional service. By Adrian Hornsby (Principal System Dev Engineer) and Marcia Villalba (Principal Developer Advocate).
Tags aws distributed apis app-development serverless