Top Links from Issue #194

CAP or no CAP? Understanding when the CAP theorem applies and what it means.
The CAP theorem might be the most misunderstood idea in computer science. If you’re looking to understand the CAP theorem through a series of examples, you’re in the right place. I recently wrote a post on the various notions of ‘consistency’ in databases and distributed systems.

AWS Serverless With Monorepos by Tomas Fernandez
Learn how to build and deploy a face-recognition application using serverless functions in AWS. Along the way, we’ll discover the Serverless Application Model, how to test Lambdas, and optimize monorepo CI/CDs.

Lambdas and Network Security by Rahul Sharma
For Lambdas, most of the security aspect of microservices is handed over to AWS as part of the AWS Shared Responsibility Model (SRM). If you run a Lambda function without configuring it to use your VPC, the function is authorized to get information from the public internet.

Tips to Effectively Design in DynamoDB by Trinom Digital
Over half of the tech customers across all of the “Big 3” cloud computing platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) have gone Serverless. With the growth of serverless applications the demand for serverless databases has also gone up.

Is Zero Trust Architecture Possible?? by see
Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) is a concept that proposes there is no implicit trust given to user accounts or assets simply based on their network or physical location or based on their ownership of the asset. “Never Trust, Always Verify” is the basic principle behind Zero Trust.