The Tech Caffeine #6
Service Mesh Ultimate Guide, Dark Launches, DOs and DON'Ts when multicloud, Async API and much more..!
✳️ This Week’s Featured Articles ✳️
Service Mesh Ultimate Guide
If you are still not sure what Service Mesh is and how it can help you then this article is a must-read. It covers topics like Service Mesh features, service mesh insights, use cases, anti-patterns, etc.
Best Practices for Monitoring Dark Launches
A dark launch is a deployment strategy for testing new versions of a service in production. When running a dark launch, you deploy a new version of a service and route a copy of production traffic to it without returning responses to users. This lets you see how a new version of service handles production load, watch for errors, and compare performance between the old and the new versions—without affecting users.
The Politics of Choosing a Tech Stack
A fun read which explains the delicate balance between project requirements and professional development software engineers do in their day-to-day job.
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Do I Need an API Gateway if I Use a Service Mesh?
A great article from Christian Posta talking about the differences in API Gateways and Service Mesh and when to use what.
Five do’s and don’ts of multicloud, according to the experts
Don’t do multicloud because Gartner says so! Check out this article talking about the expert opinion about multi-cloud. Dos & Don’ts.
AsyncAPI 2.0: Enabling the Event-Driven World
Learn about how eBay is standardizing on and publishing AsyncAPI Specification 2.0-based contracts for event notifications.
Improving the Deployment Experience of a Ten-Year Old Application
Informative article from Etsy’s Engineering team talking about their experience of improving the deployment process as a part of their cloud migration.
✳️ Noteworthy Course ✳️
Learn DevOps: Infrastructure Automation With Terraform
Learn how to automate your infrastructure with terraform. Covers Terraform with AWS, Packer, Docker, ECS, EKS, Jenkins.
What you'll learn
Understand, use and apply terraform, including advanced terraform features
Use Terraform to provision AWS resources
Prepare for the HashiCorp Terraform Certification with lectures aligned with the exam objectives
Use terraform with Packer to create custom images
Use terraform with AWS ECS, Fargate, and CodePipelines
Be able to apply DevOps techniques using terraform
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