In our third and final podcast of the scaling series, VP of Technology, Jesse Krautwurst, Senior Software Engineer, Mike Hitchcock and Lead Software Developer, Josh Buchacher round out the series by focusing on Front End development. This podcast is in English. 

Part 1: Front End Frameworks [0:00-15:45]
Scaling development 
Front end team best practices
Code review process 
Building an automated system 
Scaling features
Feature flags and A/B testing

Part 2: Scaling Load [15:53-36:32]
Optimizing over-the-wire size delivery to clients
Server-Side vs. Client-side rendering
Server interaction through APIs
Scaling usability of an application
Application accessibility considerations
Localization and internationalization
Responsive development

Tools Mentioned:

Slack
Jira
Build Status
Envision
Mootools
jQuery
Marionette Backbone
Angular
React
Akamai
CloudFront
Chrome Browser Tools
Profiler
W3C
DevTools
Google Lighthouse
Wave
Axe
Tenon.io
JAWs
Aria label
Firefox Gecko
Flexbox

Scaling the Front End

In a special edition of Teach your Niche, VP of Technology, Jesse Krautwurst, VP of Client Services, Areos Ledesma, and Torben Giesselmann, a Senior Solutions Architect from Elastic Path. This podcast is in English. 

Podcast Overview: [0:00-22:30]
Introduction to Elastic Path
How Elastic Path and Nortal work together 
Benefits of the Elastic Path and Nortal partnership 
How headless commerce increases adaptability 
How Elastic Path and Nortal enabled a highly anticipated telecommunications device launch 
How headless platforms open up commerce channels
The importance of system integrators 

Tool Mentioned:
Elastic Path

Infinite Headless Commerce Scaling

For our latest episode of Teach your Niche, Taze Miller, Partner Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, is our guest speaker! Jeff Ramsdale, Technical Director at Nortal US, and Josh Goodrich, Solutions Architect at Nortal US host the discussion for an in-depth look at The Principles of Zero Trust best practices and tips for implementation. This podcast is in English. 

Podcast Overview: [0:00-22:22]
Definition of Zero Trust 
Infrastructure requirements
Challenges of implementing Zero Trust 
Components needed for implementation
Zero Trust use case  

AWS Tools Mentioned:
AWS Identity & Access Management  (IAM)
AWS Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Multi- Factor Authentication (MFA)
AWS IoT Device Management 
YubiKey
Amazon SMS
Amazon Elastic Cloud Computer (EC2)
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

The Principles of Zero Trust

In our second installment of Teach your Niche, Nortal North America’s Chief Architect, Gabe Hicks and Solutions Architect, Nathan Skone, discuss the capabilities of serverless technology and how it can help your development team. This podcast is in English.

Part 1: How can you effectively leverage serverless? [0:00 - 16:06]
What does serverless mean to software developers?
What are the prime use cases of serverless?
What are some instances where you wouldn’t want to use serverless?
Project examples of what went well and what didn’t.

Part 2: Where is serverless going? [16:15 - 27:27]
Why do you think serverless popularity is increasing?
How serverless can help enterprises. 
Where do you get started in bringing serverless practices into a company?
How do you see serverless impacting developers in the future?

Tools Mentioned:
AWS Lambda
Google Cloud Functions
AWS S3
Azure Functions
Git Repository
Hadoop
Apache Spark
SAM Framework
Google Firebase
AWS Amplify
Spring Boot
AWS Redshift
Jango
Docker Images
Swift

Serverless: The key to faster deployments

In the first podcast of a series on scaling your technology stack, Chief Architect, Gabe Hicks, Solutions Architect, Nathan Skone, and VP of Technology, Jesse Krautwurst kick-off the series by introducing the capabilities of scaling the different types of databases and scenarios for when to apply the different scaling strategies. They also go into detail about the advantages and disadvantages of scaling. This podcast is in English.

Part 1: Introduction to the Scaling Series [0:00-18:42]
The difference between relational and non-relational databases
Vertical and horizontal scaling
What are the principles of databases?
CAP Theorem overview
What is the primary/ primary and master/ master approach to databases?
Scaling with Sharding
Scaling with Denormalization


Part 2:  Different Types of Databases [18:51-34:02]
What are the advantages of NoSQL?
What are the different types of databases?
What is a key value data store?
What would a document database look like?
What are the advantages of Time Series?
What are graph non-relational databases?
What are search non-relational databases?
How would you approach scaling a system?
How do analytics relate to scaling?

Tools Mentioned:
Cassandra
MongoDB
Amazon Document DB
Influx Time Series DB
Neo4j
ElasticSearch
Lucene
Solr

Scaling the Database Tier

In the second podcast on a series about scaling your technology stack, Chief Architect, Gabe Hicks, Solutions Architect, Nathan Skone, and Director of Technology, Jeff Ramsdale continue the series by talking about different patterns that help with scaling services, or the middle tier. Discussing in detail different patterns, when to use them, and common cases of misuse. This podcast is in English.

Part 1: Overview of Scaling Services [0:00-10:25]
What is scaling?
What is horizontal compared to vertical scaling?
Factors to consider when thinking about scaling.
The difference between stateless and stateful services.
Examples of automating horizontal scaling.
What are other ways to scale compute?

Part 2: Application Architecture [10:35-23:44]
Microservice pattern versus monolithic architecture.
How caching can impact scaling: benefits and challenges.
How queuing is used to scale systems.
How can the service tier handle the information in the queue? 
The importance of autoscaling services.

Tools Mentioned:

EC2 Instances
Google Compute Instances
Docker
Kubernetes 
Knative
AWS Lambda
JavaSpaces
Kinesis

Scaling Services

Nortal is a multinational strategic change and technology company. Combining the unique experience of transforming Estonia into a digital leader and creating change in businesses with a strategic approach and data-driven technology, our vision is to build a seamless society. Nortal operates in nearly 20 countries and employs over 750 specialists who carry out high-impact projects across Europe, Middle East, Africa, and North America.