Bornwell Matembudze talks with us about how to best develop and scale up API microservices, using Python, Django, Flask, what Event Drive Architecture is, and how to test your systems.
const podcast = {
episode: 239,
title: 'Scaling BackEnd APIs',
topics: [
'API', 'python', 'backend'
],
guest: 'Bornwell Matembudze'
hosts: [
'John Papa', 'Craig Shoemaker'
]
};
Recording date: June 5, 2023
John Papa @John_Papa
Ward Bell @WardBell
Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin
Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker
Bornwell Matembudze @Bornie_21
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Resources:
- Bornwell Matembudze on Web Rush 137
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- Don’t be scared of CSS
- Why Developers Fear CSS
- CSS Float
- Overengineering in software development
- RabbitMQ
- Welcome to Python.org
- Flask
- Django
- Adobe After Effects
- EDA Event Driven Architecture -
- Event Brokers
- Event Driven Architecture with RabbitMQ
- Microservices Event Driven Architecture with RabbitMQ and Docker Container on .NET
- Creating a Scalable API with microservices
- Azure Container Apps
- Microservices are not the answer to everything
Timejumps
- 00:23 Doesn't John know who he is?
- 02:37 Introducing Bornwell Matembudze
- 05:01 How do you start developing with a scalable API in mind?
- 09:06 Sponsor: Ag Grid
- 10:07 What are backend APIs?
- 14:11 How do you scale effectively?
- 15:40 What is Event Driven Architecture?
- 17:32 Sponsor: Nrwl
- 18:03 How does EDA and RabbitMQ help you scale an API?
- 20:39 Synchronous vs asynchronous?
- 23:20 Example of customers and orders
- 25:43 How do you handle testing?
- 27:12 Final thoughts
Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.
