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use cases

A collection of 12 issues

Scaling Your Node.js API Like a Boss

Knowing how to scale is important, but more important than that is knowing when to scale. In this two-part tutorial, I will explore what it takes to create a real-life, scalable, highly available, and highly responsive Node.js application.

The Journey of a Microservice: From Source Code to a Full-Blown Kubernetes Deployment

In this lecture, we’ll containerize and deploy a RESTful Go microservice to a Kubernetes cluster. We’ll also learn about some important building blocks of our cluster such as Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Ingresses, and the like.

How to Install an AWS EKS Cluster Using eksctl

In this article, we’ll provision a managed Kubernetes cluster on an AWS cloud, and we’ll also look into some of the alternatives.

FizzBuzz Pro High Level Design

In this video, I‘m talking about a very high level overview of FizzBuzz Pro’s API endpoints and system design.

Creating ECR Repositories

In this quick video, we’ll create an AWS ECR repo and set up our development environment to interact with it.

How To Work With Private Go Repositories

Go works seamlessly when the code that you are working with resides in public repositories. However, suppose you maintain your projects in private repositories. In that case, you need to tweak your environment a little to be able to work with your private Go modules.

Let’s Create a Syslog Logger

In this article, we’ll create a logging wrapper module that will log messages to Syslog: a standard network-based logging protocol that works on a wide variety of different types of devices and applications.

Make Your Code Leaner By Extracting Methods

In this article, we’ll see an example of method extraction. We’ll make our code less repetitive, cleaner, and easier to follow.

Here’s a Technique to Ensure Environment Variables Are Set Before Starting a Microservice

How do you make sure that your microservice does not start if any of the environment variables it depends on is missing? And how do you do this with the least amount of maintenance overhead. In this article, we’ll cover it.