Backend-Tools

Public APIs

A collective list of free APIs for use in software and web development

• ingress-nginx: Ingress controller for Kubernetes. It provisions NGINX services to load balance traffic to my pods. It also manages a Network Load Balancer (NLB) on AWS which controls ingress to the cluster nodes. It handles unhealthy nodes and traffic shaping for me. Rock-solid and has a huge community.


• cert-manager: It automatically issues and rene

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@axflow/models is an SDK for building natural language powered applications. This includes basic functionality for invoking the models, but it also includes richer functionality like augmented response streaming, hooks for building client applications, and more.

API

retry decorator

def retry(exceptions=Exception, tries=-1, delay=0, max_delay=None, backoff=1, jitter=0, logger=logging_logger):"""Return a retry decorator.

:param exceptions: an exception or a tuple of exceptions to catch. default: Exception.

:param tries: the maximum number of attempts. default: -1 (infinite).

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Mify is an open-source developer productivity tool which generates infrastructure code for your backend service and maintains it as your codebase grow.

It provides infra code for stuff like API, configs, logs, and metrics, allowing you and your team to focus on meaningful code. Services generated by Mify can be deployed in our cloud without any tedi... See more

• Django: It's like a superpower for solo developers. The longer you work in the industry, the more you appreciate the conventions it uses. A monolithic framework can get you really, really far. To me, it's about predictable software that's fast in every way that matters. By the way, I talk more about this topic on my other blog post Choose Boring Te

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• AWS: Predictable, and lots of managed services. I use it at my full-time job, so I didn't have to spend too much time figuring things out. The main services I use are EKS, ELB, S3, RDS, IAM and private VPCs.


• Cloudflare: I use it for DDoS protection, DNS, and caching static assets. It currently shaves off 80% of the egress charges from AWS. Not sure

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A better type of backendConvex is the fullstack TypeScript development platform. Replace your database, server functions and glue code.

Why gRPC?

gRPC is a modern open source high performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that can run in any environment. It can efficiently connect services in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking and authentication. It is also applicable in last mile of distributed computing to connect d... See more