Pratik Das

Pratik Das

Software Engineer, Consultant and Architect with current expertise in Enterprise and Cloud Architecture, serverless technologies, Microservices, and Devops.

Articles by Pratik Das

Getting Started with Amazon EC2

Getting Started with Amazon EC2

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a compute service with which we can create virtual machines in the AWS Cloud. We can configure the computing capacity of an EC2 instance and attach different types and capacities of storage which we can further scale up or down to handle changes in server load and consumer traffic, thereby reducing our need to forecast the capacity for investing in hardware upfront.

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Error Handling in Express

Error Handling in Express

Error handling functions in an application detect and capture multiple error conditions and take appropriate remedial actions to either recover from those errors or fail gracefully.

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Complete Guide to Express Middleware

Complete Guide to Express Middleware

Middleware functions are an integral part of an application built with the Express framework (henceforth referred to as Express application). They access the HTTP request and response objects and can either terminate the HTTP request or forward it for further processing to another middleware function.

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Processing Streams with Amazon Kinesis

Processing Streams with Amazon Kinesis

Amazon Kinesis is a family of managed services for collecting and processing streaming data in real-time. Stream processing platforms are an integral part of the Big Data ecosystem.

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Getting Started with Express

Getting Started with Express

Express is a web application framework for Node.js. We can use this framework to build APIs, serve web pages, and other static assets and use it as a lightweight HTTP server and backend for our applications.

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Getting Started with Amazon SQS

Getting Started with Amazon SQS

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables decoupling and communication between the components of a distributed system.

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