Infrastructure

Whenever you’re building a data system, there’s a million things to consider. Gone are the days of just shoving everything into MongoDB and calling it “web scale.” In this newsletter, we’ll be going over the considerations you should be thinking about when building out large scale data systems.

XFaaS is Meta's private platform for "Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions." It is more efficient than AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions.

Snyk’s Liran Tal discusses strategies for choosing the best node.js Docker image.

Webhooks are a callback integration technique for sending and receiving information, such as event notifications, in close to real-time. In this walkthrough, we’ll implement a GitHub webhook in Node.js that detects when users push code to a repository.

Axios can do a ton of stuff, but here's a simpler solution that can handle most use cases