🖥️ Infrastructure | Startup Snippets

📄️ API Gateway

An API Gateway is the entry point to access various capabilities of a complex platform via well-defined APIs.

📄️ Cassandra

- Manage massive amounts of data, fast, without losing sleep

📄️ Drupal

- Out of the box Content Management System, with minimal coding.

📄️ ElasticSearch

Why Focus on the Index? Why Not the Cluster?

📄️ Forward Proxy vs. Reverse Proxy

forward proxy

📄️ MySQL

- Very famous all purpose relational database

📄️ What

- with NGINX, you can use the same tool as your load balancer, reverse proxy, content cache, and web server, minimizing the amount of tooling and configuration your organization needs to maintain.

📄️ Neo4j

- Graph Database focused more on the relationship of the nodes, common use case is social media platforms to keep track of user relationships.

📄️ Observability

- Leading indicators versus Lagging Indicators

📄️ Platform Mckinsey

https://cybersecurity.intranet.mckinsey.com/node/145

What is Salt Stack? Salt Stack is an orchestration tool that can be very useful if you are in a microservices architecture, but need to perform individual command on seperate instances. (or you lack Kubernetes/Helm to orchestrate your releases)