Backend

Fjord is an open-source platform that deploys a real-time API Proxy for Kafka.

• Organizations can use Fjord to expose any Kafka topic to client-side streaming, whether via a browser or mobile device.
• Through Fjord’s CLI, developers can easily deploy all the components you need to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to handle the streaming infrastructure.
• Components include: Docker, AWS CDK, AWS ECS + Fargate, Server-sent events (SSE), Kafkajs, Express.js, Redis Server, AWS Application Load Balancer, NAT Gateways.

As an application attracts more users, the ability to scale becomes paramount. The solution often is to decouple your application and turn your monolithic codebase into multiple microservices. Why is Docker a key component in this new architecture, and what does this all even mean?

In Part II, we learned how an HTTP request travels across the Internet to the correct destination server, through several layers, and returns with a response. But how does this happen reliably and securely, without becoming corrupted or being intercepted by a malicious hacker?

What exactly happens when you enter a URL in your browser? How does your browser know what content to display? To answer this question, we need to understand how the various layers of the Internet work.

ISPs, routers, gateways, LANs, HTTP, the cloud, the web… the Internet is so complex that we could spend days, months, and even years studying this stuff, and we still wouldn’t be done.