Background I have spent a great chunk of my career building customer-facing applications. This would frequently involve building UIs in Angular, Ember, and backend APIs in Java+Spring, Express. And then deploying them to various environments/prod using CI/CD pipelines (mostly GitLab CI and Jenkins). More recently (circa 2021), I switched my domain…

The Move to the Cloud ☁️ As more organizations start their Public Cloud journey, chances are they will either be migrating existing APIs/applications to the cloud, and even building new ones. If you are looking into leveraging AWS, you want to make sure that you choose the right technical stack to build your APIs/applications. AWS is…

When you have numerous mobile and web applications that are all backed by many hundreds of HTTP endpoints, you need a method to efficiently integrate, deploy, retire, throttle, and secure those microservices/APIs. Each microservice does one specific thing, and serves a particular purpose in the grand context of an application…