Best of Cloud — August 2023
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ByteByteGo·3y
EP73: Cheat sheet of different databases in cloud services
For the fifth year, the State of the API Report is the world's largest and most comprehensive survey and report on APIs. More than 40,000 developers and API professionals have shared their thoughts on development priorities, their API tools, and where they see APIs going.
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Community Picks·3y
Project IDX
Project IDX lets you preview your full-stack, multiplatform apps as your users would see them. You can also import your existing applications from GitHub, with support for most tech stacks. To be one of the first people to try it out and give feedback, join the waitlist for our limited preview.
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Google Developers·3y
Introducing Project IDX, An Experiment to Improve Full-stack, Multiplatform App Development
Project IDX is a browser-based development experience built on Google Cloud and powered by Codey, a foundational AI model trained on code and built on PaLM 2. It’s designed to make it easier to build, manage and deploy full-stack web and multiplatform applications, with popular frameworks and languages.
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EverSQL·3y
PostgreSQL is taking the lead
PostgreSQL is taking the lead from other relational databases such as MySQL. Postgres is gaining popularity among startups and large enterprises. Cloud vendors are going in a PostgreSQL-first approach, with cloud vendors creating customized databases based on PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL has an internal engine that can be trusted to build other technologies.
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AWS Tip·3y
Run AWS on Your Laptop. Introduction to LocalStack.
LocalStack is a cloud service emulator that runs AWS services solely on your laptop. There are currently more than 60 emulated AWS cloud services (and most of them free) provided by LocalStack. The last thing you want to do is set up an AWS environment to improve your skills, only to accidentally shoot yourself in the foot.
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Cloud Native Daily·3y
Best Observability Tools for Microservices
Microservices architecture has become popular among developers due to its scalability and flexibility. Helios Helios is an observability tool that offers comprehensive monitoring and analytics solutions for microservices and distributed applications. Lightstep Lightstep is a leading observability platform that helps to gain deep insights into the performance and behavior of microservices architectures.
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You don't hate JIRA, you hate your manager
The most common reasons for hating on JIRA are: It's too complicated - I spend more time tracking tickets than doing work. The other common problem is a non-Manager - a "manager" who doesn't talk to you and doesn't know much about what you're working on.
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Pointer·3y
livecycle/preevy: Quickly deploy preview environments to the cloud!
Preevy is a powerful Command Line Interface (CLI) tool designed to simplify the process of creating ephemeral preview environments. It can easily provision a preview environment for any Docker-Compose application in the cloud. It supports affordable VMs from AWS Lightsail, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
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Hacker Noon·3y
The Complete Guide to Deploying NestJS Application on Render
The Complete Guide to Deploying NestJS Application on Render is a cloud platform that enables you to host static websites, web apps, APIs, databases, and even cron jobs. In this article, you will learn, step by step, how to deploy a NestJS server application that utilizes Postgres as its database.
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AWS in Plain English·3y
AWS Project: Architecting a Secure and Scalable Network with AWS VPCs and Subnets
The objective of this project is to help beginners understand concepts like VPCs, subnets, Network ACLs, routing, and security groups. An AWS account that is free-tier eligible because we don’t want to spend money on this project. The next step is to set up a Bastion Host in the public subnet.
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How to Use Hashcat for Password Cracking: A Hacking Guide
Hashcat is a popular open-source software for cracking passwords. It takes advantage of hardware acceleration from the GPU, which can perform computational tasks more efficiently than a general-purpose CPU. It can test up to millions of password combinations per second during a brute force attack, greatly beyond the capacity of a CPU.
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Wing·3y
Json Takes Flight
Service1 and service2 must produce a message and send it to service2. Given that it's 2023, XML is off the table, making JSON the clear winner. As a minimal, text-based format that is a subset of JavaScript, JSON is easy to read and focuses on solving a single problem: data interchange.
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Product Hunt·3y
Cloud cost dashboards - All your cloud costs in one place - for free!
"We listen closely and are super quick to implement meaningful recommendations," says Product Hunt. "Drop a note on your biggest pain points around cloud cost management below" "All your cloud costs in one place - for free," says product Hunt.
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How I Passed AWS Certified Developer Associate (DVA-C02)
How I Passed AWS Certified Developer Associate (DVA-C02) exam was a little tough and a bit challenging and required good hands-on experience. I spent around 3–4 hours for 5 days a week for around 2 months to feel confident before sitting in the real exam. There are tons of great training materials available on the Internet.
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EP74: The Evolution of AWS Services
This week’s system design refresher: Algorithms You Should Know Before You Take System Design Interviews AWS Services Evolution. In this exclusive report, engineers will finally get visibility into what the top 10% of dev teams are hitting in terms of crucial metrics – like cycle time, deployment frequency, rework rate, and more.
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Demystifying Docker Architecture: Understanding the Building Blocks of Containerization
Demystifying Docker Architecture: Understanding the Building Blocks of Containerization. The Core of Docker’s architecture lies the Docker Engine, the powerhouse that drives the whole system. It manages containers, images, volumes, networks, and more.
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Cloud Native CI/CD Pipelines: Building Automated Workflows with Jenkins and Kubernetes
Build Cloud Native CI/CD Pipelines with Jenkins and K8s. Building Automated Workflows with Jenkins, Kubernetes and KuberNETes is a step-by-step guide to setting up a Cloud NativeCI/CD pipeline. Use Jenkins to create a new Jenkins Pipeline to define your CI-CD workflow.
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ASP.NET Blog·3y
Celebrating the Release of .NET 8!
.NET Conf 2023 is a free, three-day virtual developer event that celebrates the release of.NET 8. This year’s themes promise to enthrall developers with their relevance and innovation. All sessions must be submitted through Sessionize, and we will assemble the best and most interesting sessions to be broadcast live during the event.
