This article dives into serverless APIs, identifies key components and integrations to ensure best practices. — This is part of several writings about serverless. Previously wrote about what is serverless, design & technical trade offs, business benefits, market offerings comparison, service-full vs no-code, integration patterns: orchestration & choreography, voice apps and web apps. The idea is to go through scenarios to understand when and how to…

This article describes a popular use case in serverless for voice applications and identifies key components and integrations to ensure best practices. — This article is part of several writings about serverless. Previously wrote about what is serverless, design & technical trade offs, business benefits, market offerings comparison, service-full vs no-code, integration patterns: orchestration & choreography. …

This article describes common multicloud architecture patterns, deployments and network topologies. It is the second part of the multicloud trends article published some weeks ago [1]. — A quick snapshot of the different patterns that this article will cover, which are split between distributed and redundant deployments [2].

This article describes a classic serverless scenario: the ubiquitous web application and identifies key components and integrations to ensure best practices. — This article is part of several writings about serverless. Previously wrote about what is serverless, design & technical trade offs, business benefits, market offerings comparison, service-full vs no-code, integration patterns: orchestration & choreography, and voice apps. …

What is service-full serverless? And what are the differences with no-code solutions? — What is Service-full Serverless? Service-full serverless is about using and configuring managed services and features rather than writing, testing and releasing your own code. I would call it “integrating without glue code” for short. In practice, an example would be using API Gateway as a proxy to directly integrate with DynamoDB [1] without writing…

If you ever had the chance to work with or close to mainframes, you wonder how is it possible that after many decades this technology is still being used and relevant in the majority of business transactions. — On one hand, the simple question is which software technologies stand the test of time; meaning they are still enabling/supporting businesses to basically make money. On the other, the more complex and interesting question is why.

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