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Quite an interesting move on the buzz that (still) is GraphQL and in this case, Hasura have been quite inventive I think by building a cloud/local mechanism to generate GraphQL backends by pointing at (selectively!) PostgreSQL, MySQL and soon to be MS-SQL.  Hasura also helps generate the fine-grained authentication too as well as offering a way to integrate business logic and more. Some links to g...

Really well thought through app, plus the fact the developer has given some really good in-depth walk-throughs of how it was built, with what technologies etc. Certainly worth checking out! https://www.cloudskew.com/ How it was built https://www.cloudskew.com/about/cloudskew-architecture.html Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

Sails main website https://sailsjs.com/ Link to their main documentation and concepts https://sailsjs.com/documentation/concepts Thanks to Tim for suggesting this one! https://timwise.co.uk Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

Github Codespaces (Visual Studio Codespaces is merging wit this) https://github.com/features/codespaces Github Container Registry https://github.com/containers Github Packages https://github.com/features/packages Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

In this episode we take a quick look at Azure SQL Serverless and briefly Amazon AWS Aurora which provides MySql and PostgreSQL as serverless too! The key take-away here is the fact you only pay when the database is being consumed and you only have the storage to pay for which is pretty minimal. Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

Twillio has been around for ages (since 2008!).  I first came across it sometime around 2009 as a platform to send outbound SMS/Text messages and also to play with the inbound/outbound voice SDK too. Twillio has moved on quite a bit and just to correct something in the podcast, Microsoft did not buy Twillio! instead, Twillio have raised a few rounds of funding.  I have a feeling Microsoft expresse...

Sure, you can architect your own microservice architecture or use specific language/platform specific solutions but what if you could pick and choose not only what you needed but across whatever languages you want to use and hosting platforms/local servers. Here are some excellent links to get you further if you wish to explore more about DAPR: A great intro/visual with our friend Scott Hanselman...

gRPC - Remote Procedure Calls are not new, but gRPC (developed from Google around 2015) provides a very restricted interface for passing data between applications - binary compressed data for performance, has a wide adoption on many platforms.  Why use it? why is it different from SOAP or REST (or GraphQL even!).  Have a listen to find out more! Here are a few links that will help take the gRPC su...

What happens when you take Xamarin Forms, mix it up with a huge shake up of .NET... .NET MAUI or the full name of .NET Multi-Platform UI. A single codebase, project to be able to code, test and build as well as deploy to not only native mobile (iOS, Android) but also to desktop forms too i.e. MacOS and Windows :) It is part of a much larger change coming in .NET 5 but onwards to .NET 6 - one frame...

Wordpress is massively popular.  If you live and breath PHP then great, but if you don't, what if I told you of an approach that provides an MVC'ish style experience to build themes? A framework called Timber can help!  coupled up with a templating engine called Twig makes for just a lovely experience! Built by an agency ( https://www.upstatement.com ) and open source: https://www.upstatement.com/...

JAMstack - Javascript, API's and Markup! What is it? JAMStack: Javascript, API's and Markup   Fast and secure sites and apps delivered by pre-rendering files  and serving them directly from a CDN, removing the requirement  to manage or run web server   Any project that relies on a tight coupling between client and server is not built with the Jamstack   Microservice/Serverless API's - not exclusiv...

Introduction We are back, the pheonix edition!  Did you really miss us? Azure functions and more broadly FaaS (Functions as a service) which include amongst others, AWS Lambda and Netlify JAMStack (I think "toast" has to be deployment service here!) Show What are azure functions and FaaS in general? Why would I use them? Platform tie-in?  Azure functions have a docker container with the Azure func...

Another dip into the vault!  https://famous.co/ Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

Almost back to the 80's (by the sound quality anyway!), this is the very first episode of Just Five Mins! Might have been caught in a time-slip or something, as I am sure Steve Sanderson hadn't come up with Blazor back then? ... or had he! Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe