Category: Back-End
Migrating the Google Drive API from v2 to v3
May 10, 2021 by Brendan Williams
When integrating an application with external data sources, developers need to be conscious of how an API request may impact...
MongoDB Queues – Why and How We Use Them at FloQast
April 5, 2021 by Joseph Vu
Platform teams vary from company to company. At FloQast, the Platform team's mission is to enable product teams to deliver...
An AWS Step Function Use Case: Serverless ETL
September 28, 2020 by Mark Panahi
With batching and looping techniques, FloQast used AWS Step Functions as a serverless ETL tool while respecting its limits on...
Postman: Developing and Testing APIs Without a Client
August 17, 2020 by Ashton Hsu
This article will walk through example HTTP requests in a back-end development environment using some useful Postman features. Postman is...
Grafana Dashboards + AWS CloudWatch Metrics
June 22, 2020 by Kyle Kodani
In this article, my goal is to guide you through the creation of a simple Grafana graph using AWS CloudWatch...
AWS X-Ray with Lambda: Distributed Tracing for the Win
June 10, 2020 by Jessica Perina
AWS X-Ray with Lambda is the easiest way to get started with tracing a simple function or distributed services. Why?...
MongoDB Query Performance: Understanding the Query Planner & Advanced Index Types
May 11, 2020 by Mark Thomas
There are stages to every engineer’s relationship with a database. They might go like this:
shock: “what is this new...
Using AWS X-Ray to Trace and Understand Your Application
March 9, 2020 by Trung Dinh
As FloQast has focused on microservices and decoupling our services infrastructure, we have faced a number of challenges, including the...
MongoDB Performance Fundamentals: Indexing & Indexes
December 23, 2019 by Mark Thomas
MongoDB is one of the most significant technologies we've embraced at FloQast. We feel it’s one of our core competencies,...