Episode 239: Scaling BackEnd APIs with Bornwell Matembudze
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`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)

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- 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).