Zeitgeist.N
Randomly infrequent tales of interest from the cloud mines.
Design Patterns for Microservices
A collection of common patterns for microservice architectures.
Predictions for the direction of serverless platforms
Some people are apparently going to run their own serverless systems and Open Whisk on Kubernetes is the main player. I think this is a ridiculous approach, but it’s an interesting counter point to my biases.
Also, Open Source really is the only play against AWS.
The Great Serverless Showdown
A great overview of the major players and the capabilities of the various platoforms in the FaaS space.
Run headless chrome on Lambda
Useful for screenshots or replacing your CI infrastructure with a series of Lambda functions.
AWS X-Ray and Lambda : the good, the bad and the ugly
Detailed analysis of using X-Ray with Lambda.
The future of querying JSON in postgresql
I ❤ you Postgres.
Syncing Redshift & PostgreSQL in real-time with Kafka Connect
An example of using Kafka Connect to consume writes to Postgres and automatically send them to Redshift.
Introducing Dexter, the Automatic Indexer for Postgres
Automatically examine slow queries and build indexes.
Also, you may be amazed to read about Hypothetical Indexes for Postgres that make all of this possible.
