Uber Engineering

APRIL 20, 2016

A few months back, we discussed Uber’s decision to abandon its monolithic codebase in favor of a modular, flexible microservice architecture. Since then, we’ve devoted many thousands of engineering hours to expanding this ecosystem of Uber microservices (several hundred … The post Rewriting Uber Engineering: The Opportunities Microservices Provide appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

Engineering 85

Engineering Architecture Open Source 85

The Polyglot Developer

APRIL 18, 2016

This year was the year that I started two different podcasts, one titled The Polyglot Developer Podcast and the other being The NoSQL Database Podcast. I’ve been getting a few questions regarding this, but people are asking where I’m hosting the episodes. This is a great question! I’m actually hosting these podcasts using Amazon’s S3 service because it is cheap and incredibly easy to get set up with.

Database 59

Database Development 59

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 18, 2016

As all good “web crawlers” know, when generating website alerts that may wake up a team of devops and support staff at 2:00 AM, you want to make sure you have detected an actual problem by managing false positives. The more granular the website monitoring that you set up, the more opportunities arise to report false positives. … The post With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility (Managing False Positives) appeared first on Dotcom-Monitor Web Performance Blog.

DevOps 40

DevOps Website Monitoring Performance 40

The Polyglot Developer

APRIL 20, 2016

Recently I wrote an article regarding how to use SQLite in a NativeScript Android and iOS mobile application. In my previous tutorial the assumption was that the database would be created fresh. However, what if you want to ship a pre-filled SQLite database with your application? Maybe you have 10,000 records that you prefer not to have to download from a remote web server, or maybe there is another reason.

Database 52

Database Games Mobile Servers 52

The Polyglot Developer

APRIL 22, 2016

As I continue to port my Ionic Framework tutorials to Ionic 2, I figured it was time to discuss how to make use of the device camera within an application. There are often needs to obtain pictures within an application. Maybe you’re creating an application like Imgur, or maybe you just want to be able to obtain a profile picture. Like I mentioned, I had written a camera tutorial a few years back on how to use the camera in an Ionic Framework application.

Mobile 40

Mobile Development 40