Stories Tag: backend-development

How Pyroscope Saved Us Weeks of Wasted Effort | by Saif Uddin Mahmud | Dabbler in Destress | Sep, 2021...

admin 1 month ago in

A client is POST-ing to a report-generation endpoint with a terribly large request body. The response takes more than 120s to compute. This triggers HTTP timeouts in various parts of our stack. The support team has found workarounds for now, but we need to fix this before it happens again next month. We look at the code, there’s no funky double-loop making it O(n**2). What…

How to structure, package, and release an application to a Kubernetes cluster, while using an automated CI/CD pipeline | by...

admin 2 months ago in

In this article, we will cover 1. Best practices for application deployment exploring health and metric endpoints along with application logging in python.2. Packing an application using docker and run the application locally inside a docker container.3. Automate the application packaging using github actions to build, tag and push a docker image to docker hub.4. Create a k3s kubernetes cluster using vagrant and virtualbox .5….

Replacing heycar’s engine without stopping. Our experience breaking up the monolith. | by Scott Fraser | heycar uk engineering |...

admin 2 months ago in

Just how easy is it to re-architect your backend infrastructure whilst keeping the lights on? Over the past 12 months the engineering team at heycar uk have been working hard to scale our backend services to meet the business’ ambitious growth objectives. The heycar uk site (link) currently serves millions of visitors as they progress through their online car-buying journey each month. Our server-side applications…