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Today's users of web and mobile applications and services expect fast and outstanding experiences. Delivering successful web services and applications means meeting these baseline expectations: In this blog post, we dive into why these three goals are vital to modern web applications and services. Then, we will look at how building global and distributed architectures achieve these goals.

There are two big gaps in the Apache Kafka project when we think of operating a cluster. The first is monitoring the cluster efficiently and the second is managing failures and changes in the cluster. There are no solutions for these inside the Kafka project but there are many good 3rd party tools for both problems. Cruise Control is one of the earliest open source tools to provide a solution for the failure management problem but lately for the monitoring problem as well.

MongoDB vs DynamoDB: How do you choose between them? Whether you are a two-man team bootstrapping a proof of concept or an established one battling with high throughput and heavy load; this post can serve as a guidepost in your decision process. Before going into the details, a brief history lesson on how these technologies emerged is pertinent; you must understand the optimal conditions for running these systems and how they operate in the wild before making an informed choice.

In the age of a new normal, remote monitoring and control have become a necessity across the enterprise. The prominence of IoT extends beyond its traditional purpose of sense and integration, evolving to complete end-to-end Enterprise Digital applications that represent physical assets, processes, and environment as a replica in a virtual representation.

With customer-managed keys, Fivetran Business Critical users running AWS gain full control over credential encryption.

We’re always delighted to announce a new Verified Step: this time, we’re checking in with the Mussel Verified Step. Find out how can it help you with testing Push Notifications and Universal Links.

As more and more companies move to a multi-cloud strategy and increase usage of a cloud native infrastructure, API providers are under a lot of pressure to deliver APIs at scale in multi-cloud environments. At the same time, APIs should follow each company’s security requirements and best practices, no matter the cloud platform. These reasons explain why many providers have such complex API authorization requirements.

In this podcast episode, we talked to Google Developer Expert Peter-John Welcome about his experience in Android DevOps, the roadmap to mobile success and the steps developers need to take to get there.