Tag: Apis
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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 apis web-development google code-refactoring json restful
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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 web-development how-to devops apis aws
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Kafka-Streams -- road to autoscaling via Kubernetes
Posted on April 16, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
This article is based on the talk Scale in / Scale out with Kafka-Streams and Kubernetes from Xebicon'18. Loïc Divad is the author of this article and he aims to present a few advantages that come with specific practices related to Kafka-Streams like containerization and orchestration, and especially autoscaling.
Tags kubernetes apis apache devops
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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 web-development serverless apis
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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 database microservices nosql servers distributed apis
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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 golang programming gcp apis
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Common API mistakes and how to avoid them
Posted on February 24, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Thomas Hunter II is author of this guide on hot topic how to avoid common API mistakes. The advice in this article applies to any API. However, some of the issues author considers are easier to encounter when the application is written in a dynamic language, such as JavaScript, versus a more static language, such as Java.
Tags javascript nodejs apis devops
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Kubernetes ingress controller setup using KOP and Nginx-Ingress
Posted on January 26, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length short
A tutorial by Lokesh Jawane explaining how to set up Kubernetes ingress controller using kops (Kubernetes Operations) & Nginx-Ingress. Kops automates the provisioning of Kubernetes clusters in AWS and GCE. Authors like to think of kops as kubectl for clusters.
Tags web-development kubernetes apis nginx containers
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Authentication at Edge with StackPath
Posted on January 22, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
Jason Byrne thoughts on using cloud Edge for some common tasks. As we spread our applications out into serverless microservices, what better place for our entitlement checks than on the CDN?
Tags web-development serverless apis infosec javascript
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Django REST with React tutorial
Posted on September 17, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Valentino Gagliardi published on his blog tutorial how to do REST with Django framework 2 and React. If you need quick API prototype quickly and is build for development speed.
Tags python apis javascript web-development frameworks
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Building a RESTful blog APIs using Python and Flask
Posted on September 6, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Olawale Aladeusi blog post about building Application Programming Interface in Python. This shall be a very easy to learn path in creating RESTFUL API using Python and Flask micro-framework.
Tags python apis microservices
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Build a Hello World API with Scala and Akka HTTP
Posted on August 29, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Miguel Lopez short and sweet tutorial about building a Hello World web application with Akka. Akka is a popular actor-based toolkit for building concurrent and distributed applications in the JVM. These applications mostly use Scala or Java.
Tags devops akka scala functional-programming web-development apis