In this episode, my guest Diego Aguilar, a software engineer focused on Cloud development, AWS and JAMstack, and I chat all about how to build scalable Contentful applications using three specific architectures: Cache, Event Driven and Batch-Sync.
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Questions Asked
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- Tell us about your background.
- What kind of projects do you work on?
- Tell us about the tech hub in Mexico where you reside.
- Tell us about your work with Contentful.
- What is an architecture?
- Who's usually involved in designing an architecture for the app?
- Explain what a Technical Architect does.
- What about having a Content Architect?
- Why do we need an architecture?
- What are some of the challenges of using an architecture when building an app?
- Are there standards one can follow when implementing an app architecture?
- What are some of the attributes of an architecture?
- Can you explain what "Worse is Better" is?
- What's the difference between serverless and cloud based architectures?
- Is LAMBDA an example of a serverless application?
- What is a Cache in an app architecture?
- What is an Event?
- What is a Batch?
- What are the 3 types of architectures?
- What is the Cache Architecture?
- When is a Cache Architecture not a good idea to use?
- What is the tech stack for the Cache Architecture?
- What is an Event Driven Architecture?
- What's a good example of an Event Driven Architecture?
- Can we mix architectures?
- When is an Event Driven Architecture not a good idea to use?
- Is an Event Driven Architecture synchronous or async?
- What's the tech stack used to create Event Driven Architecture?
- What is a Batch Sync Architecture?
- When is a Batch Sync Architecture not a good idea to use?
- What's the tech stack for a Batch Sync Architecture?
- How important is logging for all three architectures?
- Where can people learn more about technical architectures?
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