Tag: Distributed
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Kotlin coroutines - A comprehensive introduction
Posted on January 18, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length long
This article introduces Kotlin coroutines, a powerful tool for asynchronous programming. Kotlin's coroutines fall under the umbrella of structured concurrency. They implement a model of concurrency which you can consider similar to Java virtual threads, Cats Effect and ZIO fibers. By Daniel Ciocîrlan.
Tags kotlin java app-development programming jvm distributed
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NGINX ingress controller hardening guide
Posted on November 27, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length short
This guide describes, what of the different configurations described in those guides is already implemented as default in the nginx implementation of kubernetes ingress. By @kubernetes.github.io.
Tags nginx infosec devops cloud distributed apis servers
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How to program an IoT device in Elixir using Nerves?
Posted on September 9, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length short
Elixir is a great choice language for IoT devices due to its fault-tolerant nature, but also because of the ability to handle a lot of concurrent I/O operations thanks to the BEAM scheduler running under the hood. By Artur Ziętkiewicz.
Tags iot elixir servers performance distributed apis
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Uber freight carrier metrics with near-real-time analytics
Posted on September 7, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
Uber Freight has been around since 2016 and is dedicated to provide a platform to seamlessly connect shippers with carriers. We're simplifying the lives of trucking companies by providing a platform for carriers to browse through all available shipment opportunities with upfront pricing and book with the tap of a button, and making the fulfillment process more scalable and efficient. By Ujwala Tulshigiri, Yeqing Lu, Ting Chen, Branden Colen.
Tags data-science apache event-driven messaging distributed devops
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Securing Kafka infrastructure at Uber
Posted on June 27, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Uber has one of the largest deployments of Apache Kafka® in the world. It empowers a large number of real-time workflows at Uber, including pub-sub message buses for passing event data from the rider and driver apps, as well as financial transaction events between the backend services. By Prateek Agarwal, Ryan Turner, and KK Sriramadhesikan.
Tags software-architecture infosec devops performance queues messaging streaming distributed
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Distributed ledger technology 101
Posted on June 8, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
The terms "blockchain" and "distributed ledger technology" (DLT) may be widely used but are not always well understood. This article explains the differences between them. Rather than covering the technical aspects in depth, we will focus on how and why these technologies have the potential to disrupt existing business models and perhaps even create entirely new ones. By Bankless Publishing.
Tags cloud big-data distributed
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Top 5 pieces of advice for cloud migration projects
Posted on April 15, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Every organization is unique, and so is every cloud migration project. The project scope, timeline, and expense involved can vary widely depending on the size of the organization, how many geographies it operates in, how many applications are being implemented, and how many lines of business are being affected. By Susan Aumack.
Tags cio web-development app-development cloud distributed
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Platform Engineering: Building AWS landing zone with Pulumi
Posted on January 30, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this blog, I will cover some key concepts and architecture of Pulumi. We will be building and provisioning the AWS landing zone. By A B Vijay Kumar.
Tags devops distributed aws containers
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Controlling concurrency in distributed systems using AWS Step Functions
Posted on January 29, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Managing concurrency in distributed systems can be challenging. In a monolithic application, you use familiar concepts such as in-memory locks to avoid overloading a database or prevent overwriting a customer record by two users at the same time. With a distributed system, where your application is dispersed across computing environments without shared memory, these methods are no longer available to you. By James Beswick.
Tags programming distributed aws app-development code-refactoring containers
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How Airbnb enables consistent data consumption at scale
Posted on December 25, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this post, we will focus our story on how Minerva drastically simplifies and improves the data consumption experience for our users. Specifically, we will showcase how a unified metric layer, which we call the Minerva API, helps us build versatile data consumption experiences tailored to users with a wide range of backgrounds and varying levels of data expertise.
Tags data-science database cloud python distributed
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Running VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ on VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
Posted on December 11, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Whether you're integrating multiple microservices or building a new streaming app, you'll need a modern messaging and streaming service. RabbitMQ is one of the most popular open-source messaging and streaming brokers. By Yimeng Liu.
Tags cloud containers kubernetes devops distributed
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Tiered datastore solution for high data growth MySQL using Distributed SQL Databases (DSQL)
Posted on December 10, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Usually, entities like order, order items etc tend to grow substantially year on year as we scale more and serve large customers. Generally, MySQL is the widely used datastore due to its durable & ACID guarantees. While MySQL is a brilliant tech stack, it comes with the overhead of data maintenance. By Manohar K.
Tags cloud database mysql cio distributed