A serverless architecture is a way to build and run applications and services without having to manage infrastructure. In the early days of the web, anyone who wanted to build a web application had to own the physical hardware required to run a server, which is a cumbersome and expensive undertaking. Then came cloud computing,…
A Docker image is made up of a collection of files that bundle together all the essentials – such as installations, application code, and dependencies – required to configure a fully operational container environment. You can create a Docker image by using one of two methods: Interactive: By running a container from an existing Docker…
Elasticsearch is an open-source distributed full-text search and analytics engine. It supports RESTful operations and allows you to store, search, and analyze big volumes of data in real-time. Elasticsearch is one of the most popular search engines powering applications that have complex search requirements such as big e-commerce stores and analytic applications. Elasticsearch is a platform…
Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices. Service Fabric addresses the significant challenges in developing and managing cloud apps. On the other hand, Kubernetes is detailed as “Manage a cluster of Linux containers as a single system to accelerate Dev and simplify Ops”. Azure Service…
Azure Service Fabric is Microsoft’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and is used to build and deploy microservices-based cloud applications. Fabric, in this context, is a synonym for framework. Azure CTO Mark Russinovich describes Service Fabric as a layer that understands “the binding between microservices and the underlying infrastructure that they run on.” Apps created in the Service Fabric environment…
I have been working on Rails projects for more than 5 year and I always wanted to serve the assets (images | js | css) files at the best speed so that page load time is minimum. In order to do that I came across a lot of gems and services but for me the…
Secure copy What is SCP? Secure copy or SCP is used to transfer files from one system to another in a secure way. Steps to create .pem file Go to AWS – EC2 Dashboard From Left Navigation click on Key Pairs : This will land you on key pairs page Click on Create Key Pair (Blue Color…
I have observed that when people start a WordPress website they generally put the complete architecture (Database and App Server) on one server. Once they reach a certain load they have to either vertically scale the server and keep on spending money to this architecture. I have been always fostering about Highly Salable Architectures so…
Django comes with a built-in module i.e. BaseUserManager that can be used to generate a random password. Below is a sample implementation of that. from django.contrib.auth.base_user import BaseUserManager def random_password(size=12): return BaseUserManager().make_random_password(size) More extended information about the Django can be found here.
I have been working on Python and Django projects since 2014 and during my journey I had a requirement where I had to pull a signed pdf from a third-party server and save it in our S3 bucket. In order to do that I used the urlretrieve method from urllib.request library. I have shared a sample code below. We can use urlcleanup after we have saved…
