Tag: App development
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What web frameworks solve and how to do without them
Posted on February 2, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this article, Noam Rosenthal dives deep into a few technical features that are common across frameworks, and explains how some of the different frameworks implement them and what they cost. By Noam Rosenthal.
Tags frontend frameworks javascript app-development performance
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Deep dive on Angular I18n with ngx-translate
Posted on February 1, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Learn how to internationalize Angular apps step by step with the help of ngx-translate, one of the most popular open-source libraries for i18n. By Ankit.
Tags frontend angular nodejs javascript app-development
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Controlling concurrency in distributed systems using AWS Step Functions
Posted on January 29, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Managing concurrency in distributed systems can be challenging. In a monolithic application, you use familiar concepts such as in-memory locks to avoid overloading a database or prevent overwriting a customer record by two users at the same time. With a distributed system, where your application is dispersed across computing environments without shared memory, these methods are no longer available to you. By James Beswick.
Tags programming distributed aws app-development code-refactoring containers
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A primer on WebAssembly
Posted on January 26, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
To understand why there was a requirement for WebAssembly, let's take a not-so-quick stroll down memory lane. And why it hasn't replaced Javascript yet. By Divya Mohan.
Tags web-development javascript open-source app-development
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Search indexing best practices for top performance (with code samples)
Posted on January 22, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Every search interface relies on a fast back-end data-indexing process that keeps its search results up to date in as timely a manner as possible. But search indexing is only one side of the coin. The other side is the real-time speed of a high-quality relevant search engine. By Peter Villani.
Tags performance nodejs javascript nosql app-development
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DevOps for Node.js engineers: Building and publishing JavaScript application artifacts
Posted on January 21, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
An artifact is a single portable file that allows us to deploy our application. It usally is an archive of the project with its dependencies (or not) but could also be a executable binary file. By Florian Goto.
Tags nodejs javascript web-development app-development
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How we saved 70k cores across 30 mission-critical services
Posted on January 15, 2022, Level advanced Resource Length long
As part of Uber engineering's wide efforts to reach profitability, recently our team was focused on reducing cost of compute capacity by improving efficiency. Some of the most impactful work was around GOGC optimization. In this blog we want to share our experience with a highly effective, low-risk, large-scale, semi-automated Go GC tuning mechanism. By Cristian Velazquez.
Tags how-to microservices performance devops app-development agile
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How we built a VS Code extension with Rust, WebAssembly, and TypeScript
Posted on January 14, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
We'll talk through our design decisions in building the extension, and along the way we'll touch on the Language Server Protocol and, more generally, how an IDE extension works. By osohq.com.
Tags app-development open-source programming code-refactoring software performance
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9 open source alternatives to try in 2022
Posted on January 6, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Whatever tool you are looking for, there are plenty of open source software alternatives to choose from. By Lauren Maffeo.
Tags cio app-development software open-source learning
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How serverless saved money on my heating bill
Posted on January 5, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Built a serverless application as a weekend project to help me save money on my heating bill. In doing so, I experienced something great about building websites in 2022. By Cameron McHenry.
Tags analytics serverless javascript nodejs app-development open-source how-to
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Bring no-code apps to your Gmail inbox
Posted on January 3, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
AppSheet in Gmail, a new feature that lets you use custom-built no-code applications, created in AppSheet, directly in your inbox as a dynamic email. Too often, daily workflows are spread across multiple applications, slowing productivity as we navigate from one app to another and back again. By Mike Procopio.
Tags agile app-development programming software-architecture learning
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Create your own Kotlin playground (and get a data science head start) with Jupyter Notebook
Posted on December 30, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Learn the basics of Jupyter Notebook and how to turn it into an interactive interpreter for Kotlin. You'll also learn about Data Frames, an important data structure for data science applications. By Joey deVilla.
Tags kotlin java app-development jvm data-science