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Everyone’s ‘Ditching’ the Cloud—But Here’s Why That’s a Lie

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Published on March 22, 2025

What Are Cloud Native Buildpacks? A Simple Walkthrough

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Published on March 11, 2025

A DevOps Approach to AEM Packages: Automating Creation, Configuration, and More

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Published on February 16, 2025

Cloud Giants Spend a Fortune on Load Balancers—This Research Could Change That

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Published on February 14, 2025

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Devops

How Devs from Venus and Ops from Mars get along for fast and furious software development? Is DevOps with CI/CD the nitromethane to your SDLC?

One Dockerfile is All it Takes: How I Fell in Love With Bake

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Published on January 20, 2023

These Terraform/OpenTofu Tools Promise to Manage Your Infrastructure Tasks Effectively

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Published on February 3, 2025

How to Structure Your K8s GitOps Repository at Scale [Part 1]

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Published on November 10, 2023

Container Orchestration Smackdown: Kubernetes vs. Docker Swarm vs. Nomad

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Published on August 7, 2023

How to Make AWS OpenSearch Publicly Accessible Without nginx Proxy

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Published on January 2, 2024

A Guide on How to Use GPU Nodes in Amazon EKS

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Published on March 11, 2025

What is Everything-as-Code? Examining the Explosion of "as Code" Buzzwords

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Published on March 3, 2022

Why the Fuss About Serverless?

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Published on November 23, 2016

Build Your Own Chatbot For An Enhanced DevOps Experience

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Published on October 18, 2023

Implementing Geo-Location Redirects with AWS CloudFront

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Published on October 2, 2024

Aws

Amazon Web Services, not American Welding Society.

Soft2Bet Partners with AWS to Cut Costs by 55% and Accelerate Product Launches

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Published on March 18, 2025

Grafana Loki: Architecture Summary and Running in Kubernetes

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Published on March 14, 2023

How to set up HTTPS for your domain on AWS

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Published on December 21, 2017

Inside AWS Route53's Weighted Routing Policy

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Published on June 4, 2023

How To Configure CloudFront Using CloudFormation Template

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Published on August 19, 2020

Amazon Textract: Extract Text from PDF and Image Files [A How To Guide]

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Published on December 22, 2019

Deploying a Simple Serverless Node.js Application on AWS Lambda Functions

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Published on May 31, 2023

How to setup subdomain for aws api gateway?

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Published on November 1, 2017

Creating Serverless Functions with Python and AWS Lambda

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Published on November 24, 2017

Developers, AWS App Runner Might Not Always Be the Best Choice For Deploying Your Application

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Published on January 23, 2025

Cloud Security

Everyone’s ‘Ditching’ the Cloud—But Here’s Why That’s a Lie

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Published on March 22, 2025

The Big Security Picture - A Case of Integrating XDR with CSPM

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Published on August 16, 2022

CSPM Is Not Enough: 4 Reasons You Need More Tools to Secure Your Cloud

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Published on January 8, 2024

What is Cloud Security in Banking?

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Published on May 3, 2024

How to Automate Google Cloud Security Audits with Terraform and Python

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Published on January 7, 2025

The limits of Security Groups in IaaS Infrastructures

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Published on October 23, 2023

Best Practices for Securing Cloud Environments Against Cyber Threats

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Published on November 12, 2024

What Cloud-First Organizations Can Learn from the Latest Cyjax Cloud Threat Landscape Report

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Published on August 24, 2023

A Platform-Agnostic Approach in Cloud Security for Data Engineers

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Published on January 3, 2025

Microservices

Loosely coupled and independently deployable.

Microservice Architecture Patterns Part 1: Decomposition Patterns

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Published on March 30, 2023

API Gateway vs Backend for Frontend (BFF): Use Cases, Similarities and Divergencies

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Published on December 15, 2022

Code Sharing in Microservice Architecture: Creating Your Own Common Library

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Published on November 1, 2023

How To Orchestrate Event-Driven Microservices

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Published on June 17, 2021

A different approach to User Sessions in Microservices

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Published on December 27, 2020

How to Call Multiple Microservices in Parallel

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Published on August 21, 2021

The ABCs of Microservices: A Simple Introduction

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Published on March 7, 2025

Best Practices for Event-Driven Microservice Architecture

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Published on September 18, 2019

Path-Based Routing in Render with Kong API Gateway

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Published on May 12, 2022

Reverse Proxying — the Backbone of Microservices Architecture

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Published on January 17, 2024

Database

'A database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically from a computer system'

The System Design Cheat Sheet: Relational Databases (Part 1)

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Published on February 29, 2024

Migrating Away From Query Builders and ORMs in JavaScript or TypeScript

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Published on December 18, 2020

How to Build a Database From Scratch: Understanding LSM Trees and Storage Engines (Part 1)

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Published on October 28, 2024

Unexpected Discoveries in TypeORM 0.3.11

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Published on January 25, 2023

My System Design Interview Checklist in 8 Simple Steps

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Published on September 14, 2020

Building A Log Analytics Solution 10 Times More Cost-Effective Than Elasticsearch

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Published on May 15, 2023

Building a Data Warehouse for Traditional Industry: Hadoop is Overkill

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Published on May 10, 2023

Serverless Databases in 2024: The State of Serverless Solutions for Modern Apps

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Published on September 13, 2024

What happens inside an Amazon warehouse: A software engineer's guide

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Published on May 28, 2021

How does the SQL Server Query Optimizer Works

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Published on December 25, 2017

Cloud Computing

It's raining cloud stories.

Proactive Issue Detection in Cloud Software

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Published on March 2, 2025

Design and Deploy a Completely Private and Secured Networking Architecture on Cloud Using Automation

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Published on May 23, 2024

Moving Middleware to the Cloud? Here’s How to Survive the TIBCO BWCE Migration

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Published on March 4, 2025

The 12 Factor App: Principles Every Cloud Developer Should Know

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Published on February 27, 2024

Cloud Giants Spend a Fortune on Load Balancers—This Research Could Change That

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Published on February 14, 2025

How to Use AWS Lambda Authorizer for Flexible and Scalable Web Service Authorization

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Published on March 16, 2024

Your Internet Traffic Is Slower Than It Should Be—Laconic Fixes That

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Published on February 14, 2025

This Tiny Chip Can Handle Internet Traffic Faster—If You Let It Do Things Its Own Way

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Published on February 14, 2025

10 Benefits and Advantages of Cloud Computing

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Published on October 13, 2017

The Ultimate Cloud Cost Optimization Guide for 2025

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Published on January 3, 2025

Cassandra

How Cassandra Stores Data: An Exploration of Log Structured Merge Trees

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Published on June 14, 2023

ACID Transactions Are Coming To Apache Cassandra: Here's Why We're Excited

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Published on February 23, 2023

Database Administration

The Future of Database Administration Is Evolution, Not Extinction

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Published on March 20, 2025

Do Database Administrators Still Matter in the Age of Managed Databases?

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Published on December 1, 2024

Devops Tools

What Does .PHONY Do in a Makefile?

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Published on February 9, 2023

Networking: How Useful is pyATS in NetDevOps?

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Published on November 9, 2023

How to Streamline CI/CD With Octopus and TeamCity

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Published on May 14, 2024

DevOps Tools That Will Help in Rectifying Errors in the Databases

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Published on August 26, 2020

Aws Lambda

Serverless computing.

A crash course on Serverless with AWS — Building APIs with Lambda and Aurora Serverless

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Published on November 27, 2018

Why you Should Stop Using Fat Functions in Your Lambda Code

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Published on December 3, 2021

Serverless Architecture Language

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Published on April 24, 2018

I’m afraid you’re thinking about AWS Lambda cold starts all wrong

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Published on January 15, 2018

Using TypeScript for AWS Lambda [A How-To Guide]

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Published on June 21, 2020

Simple Steps to Avoid the Retry Behavior from AWS Lambda

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Published on July 25, 2019

Creating A Highly Scalable Website Monitoring Service in half an hour using AWS Lambda

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Published on January 9, 2018

Serverless NestJS Automation on AWS Lambda

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Published on November 15, 2023

How To Cache Secrets Using AWS Lambda Extensions

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Published on November 25, 2020

How to Build Serverless Vue Applications with AWS Amplify

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Published on September 25, 2018