The Tech Caffeine #7
Cloud CISO Perspectives, Easiest way to learn GCP, HeatWave DB Engine for MySQL, API Design Best Practices @ Slack & Why hyperlinks are blue?
✳️ This Week’s Featured Articles ✳️
Cloud CISO Perspectives: August 2021
This article from Google lists down the latest news updates in the Cyber Security world, product launches, and useful resources. If you have been using Google Cloud Infrastructure then you will enjoy reading this article - OWASP Top 10 mitigation options on Google Cloud
Learn about Google Cloud Platform services via Sketch Notes
If you are new to Google Cloud and need a 10 min crash course on various GCP services then check out this awesome website from Priyanka Vergadia. The Sketch notes provide interactive information about the services and when to use what. Here is a sample -
Oracle Announces HeatWave Database Engine for MySQL
As stated on the company website, HeatWave is a massively parallel, high-performance, in-memory query accelerator for Oracle MySQL Database Service that accelerates MySQL performance by orders of magnitude for analytics and mixed workloads. HeatWave is 6.5X faster than Amazon Redshift at half the cost, 7X faster than Snowflake at one-fifth the cost, and 1400X faster than Amazon Aurora at half the cost.
DeepMind Open Sources Data Agnostic Deep Learning Model Perceiver IO
DeepMind has open-sourced Perceiver IO, a general-purpose deep-learning model architecture that can handle many different types of inputs and outputs. Perceiver IO can serve as a "drop-in" replacement for Transformers that performs as well or better than baseline models but without domain-specific assumptions
Email Classification @ Slack
An interesting article from Slack providing a deep dive into how they built an eventually consistent data model to predict Slack Connect invites.
A very good overview of an eventually consistent architecture.
How We Design Our APIs at Slack
The topic of designing APIs is never boring! Hence check out this article from Slack where they explain their API Design principles and how these help them.
Why Are Hyperlinks Blue?
We have been used to see Hyperlinks colored blue. But have you ever wondered why hyperlinks are blue? Check out this article for the answer.
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Architecting for Focus, Flow, and Joy: beyond the Unicorn Project
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