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When a flow is directly triggered by a users action, we have the Cookie/Token of the user to do AuthN/AuthZ. However when we need to run background jobs or some asynchronous workflow on behalf of the user, we do not…

We are planning to adopt SNS as a mechanism for services to publish events to. We will have 8-10 teams that will adopt this and then scale to 30 teams. We have been using Postman for the API development of HTTP APIs…

Looking to learn from people who have built web/mobile applications on AWS/Azure/GCP at scale (100-200 Million DAUs performing 50:50 write/read operations)

Context: We have a few microservices, each with their own MySQL databases that communicate with each other over HTTP 1.1. A few synchronous operations that constitute a single transaction require writes across two…

Trying to figure out how to build something that would return results fast (sub 100 ms) and also support frequent writes.

Data Store - Elasticsearch Scale - 10 million writes/day (500 GB/day), about 100K search queries per day Trying to figure out 1 - How to control access to data (multi-tenancy where there are ~100K tenants) 2 - Database…

Trying to put together a list of projects written in Node.js that can serve as a reference for best practices in terms of how the code is organized, appropriate usage of core functionality and everything else that can…

Traffic = About 0.5 million requests/minute (HTTPS + WSS) and about 80K concurrent websocket connections with intermittent spikes in traffic. Runs on managed infrastructure on AWS. Almost all the requests are Network…

Could be related to software engineering or any other field that is enabled via technology. Do include a link to the talk if it is available online.

Given a dump of several logs files spanning across different components of your server side stack (like proxy, application server) what is the fastest technique/tool to determine what caused an error? I have a bunch of…

More often than not, I get people who have decent work experience and seem suited for a role but fail to unlearn and re-learn new ways of doing things. A lot of these people tend to come from a service company…

We have been using Asana and while it seems to serve fine for managing low level tasks, it is getting hard to track high level progress spread across several projects. The number of people involved on projects has also…

I like the entire material design thing behind polymer. I was thinking of using it as a replacement for Bootstrap. But then it comes with all these other things that basically make it a competitor to React. If the…

Have you been able able to recruit people for the job posted? If not, what is the signal to noise ratio of applicants. What works, what does not?

Which ones? Opinions about productivity?

Consider a small business that needs to integrate with a video hosting service that provides API access and the videos to work across all web and mobile devices.