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Marcus Cavalcanti
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Apr 13, 2020

Being an Engineering Manager

To be an engineering manager, or a software development manager is a decision you make at some moment of your career. …

Engineering Manager

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Being an Engineering Manager
Being an Engineering Manager
Engineering Manager

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Sep 24, 2019

The wrong way to scale up Cassandra DB when secondary indexes are in place

Cassandra is my favorite (not managed) database for many reasons: it doesn’t have a single point of failure (SPoF), supports multi-region, good for read and write ops, flexible about read and write consistency levels, scales linearly and not too complex to manage for day-to-day operations. Like every database, you should…

Cassandra

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The wrong way to scale Cassandra DB when secondary indexes are in place
The wrong way to scale Cassandra DB when secondary indexes are in place
Cassandra

6 min read


Nov 8, 2018

Stateless authentication for Microservices

As an API owner, you must consider not only the good design of your APIs, but the non-functional aspects as well. Think about a bank, it could be the easiest one to make a transfer or pay a bill, but if it is not secure and safe you’re not going…

API

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Stateless authentication for Microservices
Stateless authentication for Microservices
API

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Mar 23, 2018

Using service graphs to reduce MTTR in a HTTP-based architecture

Microservices is a new trend in software development which many organizations around the world are adopting (and counting…). From e-commerce websites, to social network platforms, everybody is talking about this new way to design software architectures. If you have premises like scalability and high availability or if you want to…

Mttr

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Using service graphs to reduce MTTR in a HTTP-based architecture
Using service graphs to reduce MTTR in a HTTP-based architecture
Mttr

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Jan 25, 2018

Deploying Microservices with AWS Fargate

Recently, in the last re:Invent (2017), AWS launched a new service called Fargate, which can simple be described as an abstraction to deploy applications through containers. AWS already had a service to manage containers, called Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), but ECS is more connected with the infra-structure layer than…

Fargate

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Deploying Microservices with AWS Fargate
Deploying Microservices with AWS Fargate
Fargate

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Sep 4, 2017

Lessons learned about running Microservices

There are many reasons and benefits related to opt for an architecture based on Microservices, but there is no free lunch, at the same time it also brings some difficult and hard aspects to deal with. At B2W, we started to work with Microservices in 2014 and motivation behind was…

Microservices

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Lessons learned about running Microservices
Lessons learned about running Microservices
Microservices

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Jun 19, 2017

The power of data

One of the hottest topics in the technology world is BIG DATA. And it makes sense. I’ve been living this reality so close with my teams and I’d like to share a little bit about our experience. Why did we start to talk about this? Where do we started? Which…

Big Data

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Big Data

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Marcus Cavalcanti

Marcus Cavalcanti

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Currently CTO@PicPay. Previously @Amazon Web Services and @OLX.

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