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Google Cloud, also sometimes referred to as the GCP (Google Cloud Platform) is a cloud computing platform that offers hosting, storage, and a wide range of services to deploy and manage applications (Kubernetes, VMs, Serverless functions …).

K6 made by Grafana is an open-source load testing tool which offers the ability to write scenarios to simulate traffic on your system.

We have talked previously about NestJS to create a REST backend API, but its purpose is greater, and it can also be used with GraphQL.

NestJS is a framework to build server-side application with Node.js and using typescript by default.

Anaconda is a python package distributor that comes with all the most used datascience packages included in its full installation.

A Story about a Monolith …

We talked before in this blog about federation, and its advanced possibilities.

Kafka Streams is a layer built on top of Apache Kafka’s producers and consumers that simplifies the process of handling Kafka data.

Keep an eye on costs!

Let’s look at Jekyll’s collections, which are a way to group information together within the static website generator Jekyll.

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We talked about Jenkins once before in this blog, with some neat groovy snippets to get to know the functionalities to build your own pipeline.

This article is about DevOps Mentality and what it means in a software development context where you provide a software-based service to a customer.

We’ve already talked about debezium in a previous article, so you can check those if you would like to set up a connector or learn more about it.

We already talked about Avro, the syntax for the schema, how to build a consumer and a producer and kafka in general.

edit: The technology has evolved exponentially and may not reflect current state of the tool.

Junit is a popular open-source testing framework on the JVM.

In this article, we will have an overview of how to set up kafka in a spring boot project in kotlin.

GitHub action it is the GitHub CI/CD solution available out of the box to run custom integration and deployment pipelines called workflows.

Let’s get started with Python 3 from scratch using the built-in libraries to lean Test Driven Development (TDD).

Improving the coding process is not only what you code, which patterns you use, but also how you code.

Gradle

edit: The technology has evolved exponentially and may not reflect current state of the tool.

Multi package project, that’s how I would call a project with multiple packages in it.

We’ve been talking about authorization with Jason Web Token (JWT) previously so if you are not familiar with the whole OAuth protocol, and the authorization process, it would be nice to get a refresher first.

Hibernate is an open-source java framework for ORM (Object relational mapping).

Refine is the new way of saying “groom” to prepare a task for work.

You may be using typescript, and on top of that have an eslint configuration.

Datadog is an observability service that basically ingest your services (apps, databases, servers) logs and display them in fancy dashboard where you can set metrics, alerting, custom diagrams, and more.

Having used GraphQL with typescript and Apollo, you might have found yourself creating data objects for the GraphQL resolvers.

Here is a curated list of tips that should work on GitHub, some might be more obscure than others or could be interesting to note.

Type inference is the ability of a language to deduce the type of expressions at compile time.

Liquibase is an open source database schema change management solution.

If you are unfamiliar with GraphQL or Federation, click on the links and there should be enough content to get you up to speed for this topic.

Let’s talk about MongoDB queries, but first if you are not familiar with this Database, you can check this article which should answer your question What is Mongo DB ⁉️

For this article you must have some knowledge of Kubernetes, as Helm self describes as a “package” manager for it.

XSS or cross-site scripting is defined by the OWASP foundation as an attack of the injection category where malicious scripts are injected into “trusted” websites.

ArgoCD describes itself as a declarative tool for Kubernetes, the CD refers to the continuous delivery.

Let’s have a look at some acronyms used in the IT vocabulary that does not refer to an actual technology (like SQL).

You should already be familiar with GraphQL by now, but if you are still unsure about queries and mutations, don’t hesitate to click on the links to direct toward the article that talks about it.

Let’s talk about APIs, usually in a microservice ecosystem you are bound to call one another.

If you are not familiar with Kafka then I suggest this article to get the basics.

All Typescript configuration tips that you may need.

Welcome into the React Testing part 2!

Memcached is an open source caching system, it provides an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of data and is particularly used to save results from database or API calls.

Debezium is an open-source project.

In this article we’ll have a look at the React testing library, some of its packages and the main APIs to use in your test to simulate any situation in our App.

With Apollo Server, you can create an Apollo Federation for your GraphQL APIs.

We have talked briefly about Jest before in this blog before, but only on how to write a basic test and set it up within your project.

In this article, I wanted to talk about clean code, but I don’t like the nearly religious symbolic meaning attached to it.