73 Stories To Learn About Infrastructure

by Learn RepoAugust 11th, 2023

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Learn everything you need to know about Infrastructure via these 73 free HackerNoon stories.

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Let's learn about Infrastructure via these 73 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the /Learn Repo to find the most read stories about any technology.

[1. With Cyber Threats on the Rise,

Nero Consulting Encourages Businesses to Keep Their Guard Up](https://hackernoon.com/with-cyber-threats-on-the-rise-nero-consulting-encourages-businesses-to-keep-their-guard-up) Nero Consulting CEO Anthony Oren has watched countless companies suffer from the lack of preventative measures to secure their systems.

2. Docker is dead. Long live the Unikernel.

As the cloud-native ecosystem evolves, it is beginning to appear as if a challenger to containerization has emerged. In this blog post, I'm going to dive into what unikernels are, and why I think they will be the most likely candidate to replace container-based infrastructure.

3. Web 3.0: A Poem

Cryptographically, the brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

4. Serverless Benefits And Challenges: 2020 Edition

While we know the many benefits of going serverless - reduced costs via pay-per-use pricing models, less operational burden/overhead, instant scalability, increased automation - the challenges are often not addressed as comprehensively. The understandable concerns over migrating can stop any architectural decisions and actions being made for fear of getting it wrong and not having the right resources. This article discusses the common concerns around going serverless and our advice to minimise their impact.

5. Deploy Docker Using Ansible

6. 2023 Will Be the Year of Kubernetes (and Other Predictions in the Cloud and Infrastructure Industry)

Dive into the new year’s top cloud and infra-tech trends, straight from a cloud and infrastructure technology fanatic.

7. Introducing Driftctl: Your IaC Security Belt

We recently released the first versions of driftctl, a new open-source project for infrastructure developers, DevOps, SRE, and cloud practitioners, with the goal of helping manage all kinds of drifts.

8. Decentralized Computing & Storage vs. Legacy Cloud Solutions

On November 11th, 2021, an Infura outage collapsed large swaths of the Ethereum ecosystem...

9. Improving Security in your Microservices Architecture with Istio

Security in a microservice architecture with Istio 1.12

10. Reimagining OSS BSS Systems to Shape the Future of the Telecom Industry

OSS and BSS are entities that represent the operational and business sides of the telecom respectively. They enhance the engagement with their customers.

11. How to Scale Global Infrastructure Teams

It's early on in a products lifecycle that it begins to require a global SRE presence. Once you have gained sufficient customer traction, and if your product warrants it, you need to provide them with around the clock availability support to complete the customer support jigsaw.

12. Developers and Cloud IaaS: Why Devs Should Set Up Their Own Cloud Infrastructure

Why Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) still rules, even for developers.

13. The Zoom Boom's Impact on Innovation, Infrastructure, and Mental Health

The corona virus has challenged all aspects of our lives. Healthcare not with standing, one of the biggest challenges has been in trying to keep as much of our lives as possible running as normal. Technology might already have altered the way we work, rest and play for good– but it’s been even more crucial during a period where people are working from home and avoiding large gatherings in the US and the rest of the world. In this post, we’ll look at how tech industry is rising to the corona virus challenge to keep the world moving.

14. Understanding Event Driven Architecture

Event-driven architecture is a software architecture paradigm promoting the production, detection, consumption of, and reaction to events.

15. How The Hotstuff Protocol is NOT Secure?

Each participant stores a tree of pending commands locally, in addition to the state variables viewNumber (starting at 1, stores the highest QC it voted to pre-commit), and prepareQC (starts at nil), lockedQC (starts at nil, stores the highest QC it voted to commit). When a “new-view” or round starts, a public function determines the leader from the current participants.

16. Edge Computing is So Fun Part 6: Why You Need to Embrace The Open RAN Ecosystem

To understand why embracing Open RAN should be an easy decision and get a better understanding of what is Open RAN and what are the benefits of Open RAN.

17. COVID-19 and the Decentralized Economy

Testing the System

18. Could Capture-Resistance Liberate the Web As We Know It?

The internet, by design, has enabled many forms of capture from data mining to market manipulation. So how do we build infrastructures which avoid capture?

19. Smart Trains: A Long Journey to Transportation Revolution

Smart cars might be the future, but what about high-speed smart trains?

20. Improving Observability Through Service Level Metrics

21. How Companies like Netflix Deliver Content Around the World

Have you ever wondered how companies like Netflix or Spotify is able to delivery videos or songs to you at what seems like lightning fast speed !?

22. Mighty App: Fad or Rad?

The Mighty App promises a lot and it might seem like a waste of money but, thanks to some quirks, it can be very useful when it comes to downloading at speed.

23. Examples of Weird Infrastructure Tests: A Thread

Kane shows examples of the weirdest infrastructure tests.

24. Running a Global Blockchain Node Infrastructure Ecosystem: How We Do It

Blockchain infrastructure is basically the decentralized deployment of different blockchains, and the overlay network that sits on top.

25. The Blockchain Infrastructure that Caters to Web3.0 Needs

The Blockchain infrastructure that caters to Web3.0 needs

26. What is Software-Defined Networking and Why Is It the Future of Networking Connections?

Software-defined networking, otherwise known as SDN, is a new approach to networking that has come to be favored by experienced technology professionals.

27. KYVE Mainnet Goes Live on Pi Day, Opening The Doors To Truly Trustless Data In Web3

KYVE, the decentralized data lake, mainnet officially live, opening the doors to truly Trustless data in web3.

28. How Embedding an Inbox Feed in Your Application Can Benefit Your Users

Inbox Feed is an in-app repository of the notification history so that users don’t miss out on any important information.

29. The Top 5 DevOps Tools and Services to Consider as a Startup

A collection of DevOps tools can significantly enhance your Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and increase engineering productivity.

30. Building Your Infrastructure With Just a Diagram

This hands-on tutorial will teach you how to create infrastructure via the AWS Application Composer Console.

31. DaaS: A Boon for the Insurance Industry

Know the benefits of opting for Desktop-as-a-Service or DaaS provider for the insurance industry - Get Mobility, Cost benefits & much more.

32. Serving Structured Data in Alluxio: Example

In the previous article, I described the concept and design of the Structured Data Service in the Alluxio 2.1.0 release. This article will go through an example to demonstrate how it helps SQL and structured data workloads.

33. Serving Structured Data in Alluxio: Example

34. How to Prepare Your Site for Heavy Traffic

Monitor your infrastructure. First of all, you should know what's happening with your website. If you're experienced with Prometheus/Grafana, you could use them, but if you’re not, it's not a problem; you can use any monitoring service, such as DataDog or any other SaaS service, and set it up really quickly. If it's still hard, use pingdom or site24x7, at least to check that your website is still available.

35. Using a Product-Led Growth Mindset to Improve User Experience

How changing the development mindset to a product-led-growth one can improve the user experience by focusing the thought process for the team's members.

36. Nginx Logs - Fair Database Benchmarks

How one test works to analyse millions of Nginx logs from a live website and what to learn from the analysis results while processing it in a timely way.

37. How To Evaluate Potential IT Monitoring Solutions

Check out top factors you need to consider when choosing IT monitoring tool. Learn how to pick the best solution for your business.

38. Ultimate Guide To Building an Unbeatable Multi-Tenant SaaS Startup With Heroku [Part 1]

In this multi-part series, I'll transform a new application into a multi-tenant experience running in the Heroku ecosystem. This article focuses on the object model, design, architecture, and security.

39. Cloud Infrastructure Can Set Legacy Data Free

For a long time, it’s been widely accepted that startup businesses can gain an edge over larger, establishment rivals, due to their lack of legacy tech baggage. For example, modern challenger banks have – in terms of features and UX at least – ran rings around the traditional stalwarts thanks to their modern IT and data systems.

40. How To Manage Infrastructure With Terraform

What is Terraform?

41. Learn About Infrastructure as Code in 5 Minutes and Why You Should Use It

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the process of managing and configuring an infrastructure using configuration files, rather than manually editing configurations

42. Overcoming The Most Frequent Monitoring Challenges Engineers Face

Let’s look at some most frequent monitoring challenges that engineers face, along with monitoring IT tools and how these can be resolved.

43. 5 Best Low-Code Development Platforms in 2022

What Low-Code development platform to choose in 2022?

44. Check Out the Principles and Best Practices of Infrastructure as Code for 2023

Infrastructure-as-code is a very important concept to understand in the DevOps world today.

45. What Exactly Is An “Infrastructure Provider” In Web3?

Infrastructure providers play a key role in Web3 development. They will be the roads and highways that enable seamless Web3 communication via secure protocols.

46. Quicknode: Your One-Stop Web3 Infrastructure Provider

Quicknode: Your One-Stop Web3 Infrastructure Provider

47. Why do we need a through table explained with Rails?

In a many to many relationship, it's just a table between the entities, but what is the purpose of this table to be between them?

48. What Is The True Cost of Using Public APIs

How ubiquitous are APIs in today’s development processes? Try asking an engineer how many APIs their project integrates. Most teams won’t know the answer. From analytics tools to maps and cloud hosting, modern applications use a hefty collection of internal and public APIs. Developers use these to quickly assemble applications that would otherwise take much more effort to build. However, there’s a forgotten expense not typically calculated early in a project.

49. Best Practices of Cloud Networks Usage in Fintech

Making good use of a could network first requires firms to consider if they would be meeting their regulatory obligations before ensuring network resilience.

50. How to Optimize IT Infrastructure: Let's go over the stages.

The guide looks at on-premises and on-cloud IT infrastructure optimization, as well as a hybrid approach to moving from on-premises to the cloud.

51. Scaling Our AWS Infrastructure

This article is written by Kareem Ayesh and Yasser El-Sayed.

52. Our Industrial Infrastructure Is A Ticking Time Bomb

It took one aquarium thermometer to steal 10GB of data from a Las Vegas casino. The adapter, which lacked basic security policies, was simply not on the security staff’s priority list. It was, however, on the hackers’.

53. How To Pick The Best Tech Stack for your SaaS Startup

Choosing the right set of frameworks, database, front-end tools, back-end tools to build a long lasting tech stack for your SaaS

54. 4 Essential Steps To Convert a Kubernetes Fullstack App to Heroku

In the last several years, Google’s Kubernetes project has generated huge buzz. The project has grown and evolved into a titan of the cloud infrastructure world.

55. How To Adjust Size Of A Kubernetes Cluster Using Cluster Autoscaler

Spawning an AWS EKS cluster has never been easier and options are many: CloudFormation, Terraform or CDK. For the lazy, you can even use the great CLI utility eksctl from Weavework.

56. Introducing Apron Network: A Gateway to Decentralized Infrastructure Services

Apron Network, a project supported by the Web3 Foundation, received early grants from the Web3 Foundation.

57. KubeMQ Build & Deploy Test Drive: My First Impressions

Meta: KubeMQ, makers of the eponymous Kubernetes-native message queue, has a new web-based tool that promises to make setup a breeze. Let's try it out!

58. An Introduction to AWS VPC

VPC is the topic that flies under the radar of many Software Developers, despite being present in every AWS account (well, maybe not for accounts created before 2009...but that's unlikely). There are a few reasons for this I can think of:

59. My Journey to Achieving DevOps Bliss, Without Useless AWS certifications

The story of how I transformed from a naive full-stack engineer struggling with AWS and PaaS providers to loving my life and achieving DevOps bliss.

60. Lessons for Improving Training Performance — Part 1

Part 1: Lower precision & larger batch size are standard now

61. The One Config to Rule Them All

Goplicate - An epic tale about a developer trying to maintain dozens of project config files and finding the one config to bind them and rule them all.

62. Why You Should Run Multiple Applications on the Same GPU (and Why it's so Difficult)

While GPUs are being used more and more, many users encounter the problem of not utilizing them properly.

63. Serving Structured Data in Alluxio

This article introduces Structured Data Management (Developer Preview) available in the latest Alluxio 2.1.0 release, a new effort to provide further benefits to SQL and structured data workloads using Alluxio. The original concept was discussed on Alluxio’s engineering blog. This article is part one of the two articles on the Structured Data Management feature my team worked on.

64. If You Learn to Build Scalable Applications, You Can Change Your Career

What we're up to

65. Faster than Linux

FTL usually refers to "faster than light". A theoretical particle known as a tachyon that powers certain spaceships in the Star Trek universe keeps the plot going for decades through multiple series and and movie franchises.

66. Deploying Payment Processing Infrastructure to AWS: Corefy's Experience

Hi all! I'm Dmytro Dziubenko, Co-founder & CTO of Corefy, a white label SaaS platform that empowers clients to launch their own payment systems in a few clicks. Our platform helps numerous payment providers and companies successfully cover all their payment acceptance needs. The key value of our platform for clients is that it eliminates the difficulties of payment provider integrations. After a single integration with us, clients get access to hundreds of ready-made integrations with PSPs and acquirers worldwide, allowing them to connect any payment method easily.

67. Utilizing the Elasticsearch Snapshot Module for Databackups on Azure blob Storage

While running a self managed elasticsearch cluster like any other database, it's important to make provisions for data backups. Data backups on Elasticsearch can't be done by simply copying elasticsearch data files from one disk to another, this tutorial guides you through making the best use of the Elasticsearch snapshot module for creating cluster snapshots and leverages the Azure blob storage for securely storing your backed up data. Also besides backing up data, the snapshot api also comes in handy for migrating data from one cluster to another.