A load balancer becomes a very important component of your infrastructure as your system grows. As the traffic to your server increases, you'll have to scale the server either vertically or horizonta...
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I have talked about Kinesis before, and I'm sure you've been using Kinesis for longer than me. But according to what I've seen, not all teams or companies use all parts of Kinesis. And, there are fou...
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Caching is nothing new, we've been caching stuff for ages now. We do that in our everyday lives as well. It would be wrong to say that caching is a very technical concept, it's not. Usually, what we ...
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Amazon's S3, or Simple Storage Service, has become one of the most used cloud services today. We use it for all kind of purposes, including but not limited to data lakes, intermediary storage, persis...
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Ever since Apple announced Sidecar, people have been going crazy with the extended productivity. If you haven't worked with multiple displays, you wouldn't understand the productivity boost it brings...
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A lot of engineers, system designers, architects, etc. overlook redundancy, at least according to what I've seen in my experience. Sometimes people ignore it because the system or the product is stil...
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Parquet is an open source file format by Apache for the Hadoop infrastructure. Well, it started as a file format for Hadoop, but it has since become very popular and even cloud service providers such...
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If you have been working in the software development industry for the last few years, you have heard about both microservices and serverless applications. Especially serverless, as most companies are...
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Docker is everywhere today. A lot of projects in most big companies are deployed in production as Docker containers. Once you realize how easy and useful this approach is, you'd want to Dockerzie eve...
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Most of you would already know about SonarQube, and most of you will already be using it. I never got the opportunity to use it, even though I had heard about it. But recently, I decided to make it a...
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