Overview
The WebSocket protocol created new possibilities for communication over the Internet and opened the door to a truly realtime web.
WebSockets were first described in 2008 and have enjoyed wide browser support since around 2010. Before WebSockets came along, the “realtime” web existed, but it was difficult to achieve…
According to GitHub, “GitHub Copilot is an AI pair programmer that helps you write code faster and with less work. GitHub Copilot draws context from comments and code, and suggests individual lines and whole functions instantly.”
It is powered by OpenAI Codex, which is an AI system created by OpenAI…
gRPC is a modern open-source high-performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that can run in any environment. It was developed by Google and is now part of the Cloud Native Computation Foundation(CNCF).
It was developed by Google in 2015. Most people assume the ‘g’ to mean Google, but it does…
What is Cache?
Cache is a small memory, fast access local store where we store frequently accessed data. Caching is the technique of storing copies of frequently used application data in a layer of smaller, faster memory in order to improve data retrieval times, throughput, and compute costs.
Why do…
Load balancing refers to efficiently managing traffic across a set of servers, also known as server farms or server pools. Each load balancer sits between client devices and backend servers, receiving and then distributing incoming requests to any available server capable of fulfilling them.
A load balancer is a device…
What is Rate Limiter?
Rate limiting refers to preventing the frequency of an operation from exceeding a defined limit. In large-scale systems, rate limiting is commonly used to protect underlying services and resources. …
Url shortener is a service that creates a short & unique alias for links of very high size. We can call these shortened aliases as “short links.” These short links can then be used by users, and they are redirected to the original URL when they hit these short URLs…
AWS Step Function is a “Function Orchestrator”. It’s a visual workflow service used to orchestrate AWS services, automate business processes, and build serverless applications. Workflows manage failures, retries, parallelisation, service integrations, and observability so developers can focus on higher-value business logic.
It is a service that enables you to coordinate…
PagerDuty is an alarm aggregation and dispatching service for system administrators and support teams. It collects alerts from your monitoring tools, gives you an overall view of all of your monitoring alarms, and alerts an on-duty engineer if there’s a problem. …
NFT’s are the latest in a long list of points of discussion that blockchain has produced. Named Non-Fungible Token, it basically means that it’s a unique token of a digital asset. …
