Learn from some of the most accomplished engineering leaders. This blog brings you key insights from fellow engineering managers and tech leaders to level-up your management skills and to take your developer team to the next level.
The idea of ‘serverless’ is NOT about removing the servers completely (or you couldn’t use the internet at all), but essentially paying for services that mean that someone else manages the servers for you, thereby reducing maintenance load…
Not having access to the server can make things harder, but not impossible. And it’s not necessarily wrong, just different.
And the same applies to securing serverless apps. In some ways, it’s easier than securing traditional web apps. In other ways, it’s harder. And in yet other ways, it’s merely different.
In this post, we’ll summarize these key differences and help you secure serverless apps.
One of the main benefits of using serverless is automation due to it’s event-driven and pricing models. In this post, we will walk through how to use AWS Lambda to cleanup unused EBS volumes to reduce the infrastructure’s monthly bill.
Figuring out how to test complex, distributed systems causes a lot of headaches. And the thing is, there is no one-size-fits-all answer. Distributed systems serve a specific need, so its architecture is built in a way to serve that business need. Chances are, the testing methods vary as well, and I haven’t even mentioned the number of independent services that also influences the testing methodology.
Since it’s impossible to come up with a universal answer for testing distributed systems, we did interviews with 6 cool tech leaders to reveal their methods of testing.
In this post, they will talk about how their systems work and the methods they use to test them.
A microservice architecture is an interesting beast, as there is no real prescriptive definition of what makes one that is universal in nature. In my view a software architecture is much more akin to a form of software philosophy than any engineering discipline. In this post, David reveals his process for switching to microservices.
State of Software Development 2018 report
Software development evolves super-fast. A tool or framework used today might be obsolete tomorrow. Our intention is to take a snapshot of the industry, track how it evolved in the past and make an educated guess as to where it’s heading. This year’s report will give you the data you need to benchmark your activities against other survey participants, get some insights to further improve your developer team and keep up with the rapidly changing industry.
Building serverless apps or setting up a serverless architecture has been a pretty hot topic in recent years. But seeing if this is the right fit for your application is not that clear. In this post, we compressed every information you need to know about serverless applications, collecting the pros and cons to make your architectural decision much easier.
Switching to a microservice architecture seems easy, but tech leaders tend to underestimate the complexity of the project and make disastrous mistakes. Before transforming your monolithic system into microservices, or starting one from scratch, you need to carefully consider the technological and organizational challenges that will arise.
When you as a software developer start examining a new project’s specifications that just arrived at your team, you start planning the architecture. Every application uses data handling and storing, so you will need a database. Nowadays, there are tons out on the market, so you can become confused with which one to choose. Well, it highly depends on what your soon to be app is about. In this blog post, we will discuss the opportunities of file storing with relational and NoSQL databases through the comparison of MongoDB and SQL Server.
I decided to make a plugin, which is more advanced than showing just a native toast message on a device, so I chose the acceleration sensor access from a cross-platform app. In this blog post, I show you how to develop a native Cordova plugin for Android.
When building any kind of server side app, you will eventually have the following thoughts:
Given values to these kinds of parameters will yield a configuration. It is a crucial part of the system as our application will have lots of configurable elements, so it must be handled properly throughout the codebase.
In this article, we will look at the DOs and DON’Ts of Node config handling.
