If you want to get ahead of 99% of software engineers, then learn these 20 API concepts:
1 Endpoint
2 HTTP Methods
3 Request-Response
4 Status Codes
5 Authentication
6 Authorization
7 Access Tokens
8 OAuth 2.0
9 Rate Limiting
10 Throttling
11 Pagination
12 Caching
13 Idempotency
14 Webhooks
15 API Versioning
16 OpenAPI
17 REST vs GraphQL
18 API Gateway
19 Microservices
20 Error Handling
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How Kubernetes orchestrates pods
(clearly explained in under 1 min):
Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform that automatically deploys, manages, scales, and heals containerized applications.
Instead of manually managing containers, Kubernetes handles everything for you.
Hereโs a simple mental model to understand it:
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โณ You create a Deployment manifest
โณ Specify how many pod replicas should run
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โณ Kubernetes chooses the best worker node
โณ Pods are distributed across available resources
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โณ The kubelet on each node starts containers
โณ Containers run inside pods
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โณ Pods can be reached through Services
โณ Traffic is load-balanced across replicas
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โณ Health checks detect failures
โณ Crashed pods are automatically recreated
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โณ More traffic โ more pod replicas
โณ Less traffic โ fewer replicas
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โณ New pods are created gradually
โณ Old pods are removed with minimal downtime
That's the core idea behind Kubernetes orchestration.
You tell Kubernetes what you want.
Kubernetes continuously works to make reality match that desired state.
If you want hands-on Kubernetes projects, deployments, scaling strategies, and production-grade examples, check out this ebook:
https://t.co/vyboCdLTx0
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Everyone is sharing DevOps roadmaps.
Most are just lists of tools.
But DevOps isn't about learning 20 tools at once. It's about learning the right things in the right order.
If I were starting in DevOps today, knowing what companies actually hire for, this is the roadmap I'd follow from Day 1 to landing a DevOps role.
I put together the complete roadmap here ๐
Full roadmap ๐
https://t.co/GDW4YzUJY7
Backend Engineering Mastery Guide
If it is handling requests โ APIs
If it is designing APIs โ REST / GraphQL
If it is server-side development โ Node.js / Java / Go
If it is database management โ PostgreSQL / MySQL
If it is NoSQL data โ MongoDB
If it is authentication โ JWT / OAuth
If it is authorization โ RBAC / Permissions
If it is caching โ Redis
If it is background jobs โ Queues & Workers
If it is messaging systems โ Kafka / RabbitMQ
If it is file storage โ S3
If it is scalability โ Load Balancers
If it is performance โ Query Optimization
If it is monitoring โ Prometheus / Grafana
If it is logging โ ELK Stack
If it is containerization โ Docker
If it is orchestration โ Kubernetes
If it is deployment โ CI/CD Pipelines
If it is system reliability โ Fault Tolerance + Resilience
If it is mastering backend engineering โ build โ scale โ monitor โ improve โ repeat
Grab the Backend Engineering ebook: https://t.co/t9mqUuRbjx
Shopify has unveiled GraphQL Cardinal, a new execution engine replacing depth-first traversal with breadth-first execution.
โก Up to 15ร faster field execution
โก 6ร lower garbage collection overhead
โก More than 4 seconds improvement in P50 latency
๐ https://t.co/rMoz5JgVyG
We just published 7 CVEs identifying security vulnerabilities in React Router and Remix v2
We recommend updating to the latest appropriate versions:
- React Router v7 -- 7.16.0
- React Router v6 -- 6.30.4
- Remix v2 -- 2.17.5
Details, links, and package ranges are listed below
"We use Prometheus for monitoring."
I hear this in almost every interview. Then I ask one question and the whole thing falls apart.
"Why do logs and metrics need different pipelines?"
Silence.
Most people jump into Prometheus and Grafana without understanding what they're actually solving. They know the tools. They can't explain the problem.
With observability, you're solving two completely different problems.
Logs tell you what happened. An error occurred. A request came in. A database query failed. These are events. Stories your application tells.
Metrics tell you how things are performing right now. Latency is 200ms. CPU is at 75%. You processed 500 requests per minute. These are measurements.
Different data types. Different collection methods. Different storage. That's where people get confused.
Last month in my DevOps bootcamp, we built a complete observability system for microservices on Kubernetes.
For logs, we used Fluentd sidecars that share a volume with the application container.
The app writes logs to the volume.
Fluentd reads and forwards them.
Clean separation of concerns.
At a small scale, you send logs straight to CloudWatch.
But when you're generating thousands of log lines per second, you add layers.
Lambda for formatting.
Kinesis for buffering.
OpenSearch for fast queries across petabytes of data.
S3 for long-term backup.
We kept 7 days in OpenSearch for active investigation. 30 days in CloudWatch. Years in S3 for compliance. Each layer has different cost and performance characteristics.
For metrics, Prometheus scrapes application endpoints every 30 seconds.
Developers instrument their code with Prometheus client libraries.
They expose a /metrics endpoint.
Prometheus pulls the data automatically.
We created ServiceMonitors that tell Prometheus which pods to scrape based on labels.
As soon as new pods come up, Prometheus discovers and scrapes them.
Then Grafana visualizes everything.
We imported pre-built dashboards from https://t.co/5wE21Lb4Q8 for Kubernetes monitoring.
And built custom panels for application-specific metrics.
Logs and metrics run in parallel.
When something breaks, metrics show you the spike. The error rate jumped. Latency went from 100ms to 2 seconds.
Then you check the logs. Filter for that time window. Find the stack traces. See exactly what failed.
You can't troubleshoot with just one. You need both perspectives.
We implemented it, troubleshot everything in a live call, generated real metrics and logs, and built dashboards in Grafana.
That's the difference between watching tutorials and actually understanding how systems work in production.
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