Description

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

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

  

• Narwhal

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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.