The Tech Caffeine #3
AWS Lambda Internals, Case against Kubernetes, Microservices migrations, Microsoft Cloud Sustainability & much more..!
✳️ This Week’s Featured Articles ✳️
Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda
In this article, Bruno Schaatsbergen explains what’s behind AWS’s Internet scalable functions-as-a-service. He also talks about Firecracker, an open-source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services that provide serverless operational models
No, we don’t use Kubernetes
Here is an interesting article from Ably Engineering Team where they talk about why Kubernetes did not make sense to them. The article underlines why you need to first do a cost-benefit analysis before jumping into new tech.
From Monolith to Microservices: Reducing the Migration’s Pain Points
Here is a follow-up article from the DoorDash Engineering team, where they talk about the pain points they had to go through during their migration. The earlier article in this series explains their monolith app and how they migrated to more scalable Microservices architecture.
Package Hunter: A tool for detecting malicious code in your dependencies
Software Supply Chain attacks have seen 12 fold rise in the last 3 years. To monitor malicious packages in real-time, GitLab has open-sourced a tool that under the hood uses Falco. GitLab mentioned that they have been using this tool internally since Nov 2020.
Microsoft Previews Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability
At the recent Inspire 2021 conference, Microsoft announced the preview of Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability, a new service to help companies measure and manage their carbon emissions, set sustainability goals, and take measurable action.
Design considerations for SAP data modeling in BigQuery
If you are an existing SAP customer and use GCP for your data & analytics project, this must be read. The article explains various best practices while modeling SAP data into Big Query.
Top CI/CD misconceptions, explained
In this article, Industry experts share common misunderstandings to help you avoid pitfalls. I especially like the point - “Misconception: DevOps is all about CI/CD“
✳️ Noteworthy Course ✳️
If you are looking to get started on Python then check out these courses on Udemy
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