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Typically, when designing a messaging system you choose an open standard for events to conform to, such as JSON or XML. This way, publishers/subscribers are not tied to a certain technology, and they know what format to expect when dealing with the e...
Azure Event Grid is a server-less message router. It provides a place for event publishers to send messages to (a topic), and pushes events to interested subscribers (via subscriptions). The question addressed here is: How do we write integration tes...
Logstash is a data processing pipeline that allows you to collect data from various sources, then transform and send it to a destination. It is most commonly used to send data to Elasticsearch (an analytics and search engine), which can then be viewe...
What happens when a parcel cannot be delivered? There might be an attempt to retry delivery a few times. The customer might get notified after 3 failed attempts to deliver, but ultimately it ends up in storage and becomes the customer’s concern to in...
Like any beast in Azure, learning about Event Grid quickly turns into a game of buzzword bingo. Lots of new words that actually represent something rather simple that, especially if you know something about messaging, you might even already understan...
GitLab pages serves files under a public directory. If, like me, you are using GitLab pages to serve a static site (maybe it’s a SPA or just vanilla HTML/CSS/JavaScript) then serving compressed files improves site performance dramatically. TL;DR Add ...