Tag: Messaging
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Learn how to use webhooks by connecting NodeJS, IFTTT and Twitter
Posted on November 28, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this guide, you'll learn what webhooks are and how they work. You'll then put together a simple Webhook integration for IFTTT and Twitter, using Node and a simple Express app. By Robbie Cahill.
Tags how-to event-driven messaging nodejs app-development web-development
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Pulsar advantages over Kafka
Posted on November 19, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Recently, author has been looking at Pulsar and how it compares to Kafka. A quick search will show you that there is a current war between the two most famous open source messaging systems. By Javier Ramos.
Tags apache devops queues event-driven messaging app-development
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MQTT vs SSE
Posted on October 17, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
Building a real-time web or mobile application is a bit more challenging than building a standard service. That's because the protocol you choose to deliver data from the server to the client — and back — will have a significant impact on the overall experience. By Kieran Kilbride-Singh.
Tags microservices web-development event-driven messaging software-architecture app-development
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Kafka with Java: Build a secure, scalable messaging app
Posted on October 16, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Today's users expect your app to be accessible from their computer, mobile phone, tablet, or any other device! This transition to Software as a Service (SaaS) as the norm requires developers to effectively integrate with robust tools that scale to handle thousands (or even millions) of requests every second. Apache Kafka is one of the most effective tools for handling those high throughput environments. By Daniel Pereira.
Tags microservices event-driven messaging java software-architecture infosec
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Mastering AWS Kinesis data streams
Posted on July 14, 2020, Level advanced Resource Length long
An article by Anahit Pogosova in which she describes how she has been working with AWS Kinesis Data Streams for several years, dealing with over 0.5TB of streaming data per day. Rather than telling you about all the reasons why you should use Kinesis Data Streams (plenty is written on that subject), she will talk about the things you should know when working with the service.
Tags software-architecture event-driven messaging big-data cio data-science code-refactoring
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Event-driven servers: An Intuitive Study
Posted on March 4, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
James Lim out together this piece about short explainer of event-driven servers, intended to help readers gain an intuitive understanding of event loops.
Tags servers miscellaneous microservices event-driven messaging software-architecture
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Best practices for event-driven microservice architecture
Posted on February 14, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
While you might have used REST as your service communications layer in the past, more and more projects are moving to an event-driven architecture. Let's dive into the pros and cons of this popular architecture, some of the key design choices it entails, and common anti-patterns. By Jason Skowronski.
Tags microservices event-driven messaging programming software-architecture
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Tour of Akka Typed: Message Adapters, Ask Pattern and Actor Discovery
Posted on September 17, 2019, Level advanced Resource Length medium
An article in series by Manuel Bernhardt in which he explores the basics of the Akka Typed API, why it was created and what are its benefits in comparison to the classic Actor API, how to build typed actor systems via protocols and behaviors and how to create typed actors.
Tags akka java scala programming messaging queues
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Understanding microservices with tracing
Posted on March 27, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An interesting article on codacy blog from rtfpessoa. A typical system now is microservices-oriented, distributed and event-driven, and following its flow of information is a complicated endeavor. Moreover, instrumenting such a system to trace the flow of information has, at least historically, been an intricate task.
Tags docker microservices devops distributed messaging
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Encrypting vs. signing with OpenPGP. What's the difference?
Posted on October 2, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Brad Wyro thoughts on encryption versus signing with OpenPGP. OpenPGP is the most widely used email encryption standard. PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy. In the article author helps to answer following question: how can you ensure confidential data transmitted via email is kept private?
Tags infosec crypto messaging
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Event Sourcing made Simple
Posted on May 18, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Neat article by Philippe Creux, Ruby and Rails developer at kickstarter, about implementation a minimal event sourcing framework at Kickstarter to power d.rip. Event Sourcing is to data what Git is to code. It's simple and it has made their life so much better! Read on!
Tags programming software-architecture event-driven messaging
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Developing a deeper understanding of Apache Kafka architecture
Posted on May 1, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length short
Insidebigdata team wrote this article in which they provide 30,000 feet overview of Apache Kafka architecture. Kafka, the distributed streaming platform, features an architecture that provides application messaging that is very clear.
Tags software-architecture event-driven messaging