Cloud articles and stories

My stories about #Cloud. I write about public cloud providers, open source technologies and micro-services best practices. For a specific category see the Menu.

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Identification patterns for your resources: URI/UUID/AWS ARN...

Present the common methods of attributing unique identifiers to your resources.

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Best practices in (Kafka) event streaming consumers

A series of best practices when consuming events from real-time event streams.

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2 simple techniques to reduce JSON's size

Showcase how single letter keys and compression can shave a bit off your AWS bill.

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Almost free server monitoring with AWS Lambda

A free, fast and easy to setup web health checker using AWS Lambda.

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Software engineer — from monolith to cloud: think small

Let's explore how did the paradigm changed over the years when talking about back-end web applications.

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Software engineer — from monolith to cloud: Auto Increment to UUID

The technical details and the new mindset needed to make the switch.

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Small test on top 3 meteor hosting services

Later edit (2018): I ended up using http://meteor-up.com/ with a custom VM in AWS/Google cloud. The costs were too high with a managed…