System Architecture

With every new release of NSX-T interesting features are added to the platform. Take failure domain for example. Introduced in version 2.5, failure domain adds another layer of protection for the c…

A lot of people regard Virtual Trunking Protocol(VTP) as nothing but trouble. Indeed, it’s hard to find many people who will implement it on their network. I find this baffling – it&#82…

Learn more about: Fault domain awareness

A failure domain is a set of resources that provide a service to users and operates independently of other failure domains that provide that same logical service. And they are incredibly important.

Thinking Like an Architect: Understanding Failure Domains

This talk discusses the Stack Problem, understanding how Kubernetes is the platform that best solves it, and what the main advantages (and disadvantages!) are of running Postgres on Kubernetes.

Self-describing values for Future-proofing

An API can provide flexibility in our source code, product, and teams. Let's see which key points we should consider when designing an API and how the REST constraints (principles) guide us to create a RESTful or REST-Based Web API.

I am sure, you must have heard of Proxy and reverse proxy server. This is a very important topic, when we talk about backend engineering & computer networking. Some times it's very confusing to find the exact difference between both of them.

What is a Docker container? Containers vs. Virtual Machines. Linux containers vs. Virtual Machine containers. How OCI runtime spec defines containers. What platforms containers support?

In A virtuous cycle for analytics I said this about Metabase: It’s all nicely RESTful. Interactive elements that can parameterize queries, like search boxes and date pickers, map to URLs. Queries c…

In a recent article on Ably Blog, Alex Diaconu reviewed the eight fallacies of distributed computing and provided a number of hints at how to handle them. InfoQ has taken the chance to talk with Diaconu to learn more about how Ably engineers deal with the fallacies.

Leaders are waking up to the reality that the application is not the center of the universe. Instead, data as collaboration starts by approaching the data as the center with the applications built around it.

Handling millions of daily users efficiently and securely does not happen by chance, here's some what goes into it.

Design Patterns in Java. What are Design Patterns in Java? Types of Design Patterns in Java. Creational Design Patterns, Structural Design Patterns, Behavioural Design Patterns,

Take an in-depth look at Ballerina's concurrency model and how it provides the foundation for the inherent non-blocking I/O support available in the language.

Use ESM with importmap to manage modern JavaScript in Rails without transpiling or bundling. - GitHub - rails/importmap-rails: Use ESM with importmap to manage modern JavaScript in Rails without tr...

I didn't much care for vanilla JavaScript prior to ES6. Through all of the 2000s, I chased different approaches to avoid writing too much of it. First there was RJS (Ruby-to-JavaScript). Then there was CoffeeScript. Both transpiling approaches that turned more enjoyable-to-write source code into the kind of JavaScript that browsers wou...

A web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

Find out how to build great REST APIs in any language by following these 10 essential rules.

Can history help us make sense of the term 'RESTful API'?

You can build a functional CDN on an 8-year-old laptop while you're sitting at a coffee shop. Here's what a CDN you put together in five hours might look like.

Coordinating a large product org is hard.

The Periodic Table of Realtime: an interactive way of learning about the different aspects, protocols, and players in the realtime sphere.

by Yannick Moy – Sep 02, 2021.