Tag: App development
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How WhatsApp scaled to 1 billion users with only 50 engineers
Posted on November 9, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In 2016, WhatsApp reached more than a billion users. They managed to serve this scale with only 50 engineers. By @quastor.org.
Tags performance web-development programming app-development open-source
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What's new in PHP 8.1
Posted on November 8, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
As with every release, PHP 8.1 adds some nice new features. Keep in mind that this list will grow over the year. By Brent.
Tags php web-development programming app-development
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Write function overloads using JSDoc and TypeScript
Posted on November 1, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
I like TypeScript, but I prefer the JSDoc syntax for writing it. That should be obvious if you've read any of my JavaScript articles, especially Get Started With TypeScript the Easy Way. By Austin Gil.
Tags javascript app-development web-development nodejs
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Swiftly search metadata with Amazon S3 serverless architecture
Posted on October 31, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
As you increase the number of objects in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), you'll need the ability to search through them and quickly find the information you need. By Jiwan Panjiker, Haider Naqvi, and Muthuvelan Swaminathan.
Tags serverless app-development database cloud cio
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Simplify state machines and statecharts with JavaScript
Posted on October 30, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Let's look at managing application state from a different perspective. If you're a frontend developer or a backend developer, you probably deal with state management daily. XState is a JavaScript/TypeScript implementation of the finite state machine and statecharts that will make your life easier. By Michal Sevcik @nearform.
Tags javascript frontend app-development web-development react
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Choosing a FaaS (Function as a Service) provider in 2021
Posted on October 29, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Function execution platforms really gained rise as more people got tired of setting up full containerized environments for simple code execution. The costs, overall maintenance, and cascading consequences of failures meant more people were looking for a lean context to execute one-off workers in the cloud. By Jesse Martin.
Tags cio app-development serverless web-development cloud
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Paginations 1.0: Time series collections in five minutes
Posted on October 28, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
As someone who loves to constantly measure myself and everything around me, I was excited to see MongoDB add dedicated time-series collections in MongoDB 5.0. Previously, MongoDB had been great for handling time-series data, but only if you were prepared to write some fairly complicated insert and update code and use a complex schema. In 5.0, all the hard work is done for you, including lots of behind-the-scenes optimization. By John Page.
Tags nosql app-development database web-development
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Build and secure FastAPI server with Auth0
Posted on October 26, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Learn the basics of FastAPI, how to quickly set up a server and secure endpoints with Auth0. By Mark Halpin.
Tags apis app-development infosec javascript python
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Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages
Posted on October 25, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
I was writing a tiny website to display statistics of how much sponsored content a Youtube creator has over time when I noticed that I often write a small tool as a website that queries some data from a database and then displays it in a graph, a table, or similar. But if you want to use a database, you either need to write a backend (which you then need to host and maintain forever) or download the whole dataset into the browser (which is not so great when the dataset is more than 10MB). By phiresky's blog.
Tags database app-development sql javascript
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Comparing the best web servers: Caddy, Apache, and Nginx
Posted on October 23, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A web server is a piece of software that accepts a network request from a user agent, typically a web browser, and returns either the appropriate response for the request or an error message. Two dominant solutions for HTTP servers today are Apache and Nginx. However, a new player in the space, Caddy Web Server, is gaining traction for its ease of use. By Ayooluwa Isaiah.
Tags servers devops microservices app-development apache nginx
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Using the Saga pattern in Microservice transactions
Posted on October 22, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Using the microservices architecture has many benefits. It has become the norm for many large-scale applications. However, Microservices also comes with several challenges. One such challenge is handling transactions that span across multiple services. By Chameera Dulanga.
Tags devops software-architecture microservices app-development
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How to cancel an HTTP request in Node.js
Posted on October 21, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
If you're making an HTTP request in Node.js there's a good chance you'll want to cancel it if it takes too long to receive a response. Or perhaps you have a slightly more complex situation where you're making multiple requests in parallel, and if one request fails you want to cancel all of them. By Simon Plenderleith.
Tags devops nodejs javascript web-development open-source app-development