☁️🧰 orchestration and backend engineering

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code in this repo

services and pubs

• docker
• kubernetes:
  • spin up a node server
  • kustomize for deployment
  • python cdk for deployment
• kafka (long pooling)

cloud

• aws
• gcp

storage

• databases

management

• chef

learning

• protocol demos

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backend fundamentals

• communication patterns

  • Request Response model
  • Synchronous vs. Asynchronous workloads
  • Push
  • Polling and Long Polling
  • Server-Sent Events
  • Publish-Subscribe (Pub/Sub)
  • Multiplexing vs. Demultiplexing
  • Stateful vs. Stateless
  • Sidecar Pattern
  
  

• protocols

  • protocol properties
  • HTTP/1.1, 2, 3
  • WebSockets
  • gRPC
  • WebRTC
  • proxy vs. reverse proxy
  • Layer 4 vs. Layer 7 load balancers

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external resources

• system design in cool pictures
• list of public apis
• my end-to-end pipeline on AWS SQS + lambda + SNS
• saw, a multi-purpose tool for aws cloudwatch logs