Tag: Backend development
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How to use data types in PHP
Posted on July 22, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length short
PHP is a popular programming language used in web development. It offers a wide range of features to developers, including support for different data types. Data types are essential to programming because they help define how data is stored and processed in a program. By @vegibit.com.
Tags backend-development product-and-design frontend-and-mobile software-engineering
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How to build your first web application with Go
Posted on July 19, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
One of Go's greatest strengths lies in the its suitability for developing web applications. It offers great performance out of the box, is easy to deploy, and has many of the necessary tools you need to build and deploy a scalable web service in its standard library. This tutorial will walk you through a practical example of building a web application with Go and deploying it to production. It will cover the basics of using Go's built-in HTTP server and templating language, and how to interact with external APIs. By Ayo.
Tags software-engineering backend-development cloud-and-infrastructure frontend-and-mobile
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How to deploy an AI model in Python with PyTriton
Posted on July 18, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
AI models are everywhere, in the form of chatbots, classification and summarization tools, image models for segmentation and detection, recommendation models, and more. AI machine learning (ML) models help automate many business processes, generate insights from data, and deliver new experiences. By Shankar Chandrasekaran.
Tags leadership-and-career ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics backend-development
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6 common misconceptions around Akka-http / Pekko-http
Posted on July 14, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Akka-http is the foundation of many Scala and Java web services that have been successfully running on production for quite some time now. It's powered by Akka, a concurrency toolkit that had a big impact on Scala's hype taking off. By Paweł Kiersznowski.
Tags product-and-design software-engineering how-to backend-development
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Learn Deno and go beyond Node.js
Posted on July 12, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Although Node.js remains the most-used server-side JavaScript runtime by a huge margin, alternative runtimes like Deno and Bun have garnered attention as they attempt to improve upon the Node.js concept. By Jeremy Holcombe.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile product-and-design leadership-and-career software-engineering
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Golang performance: Go programming language vs. other languages
Posted on July 10, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length long
Golang was first released by Google in 2009 and, and since then, has gained widespread acceptance among developers due to its simplicity, concurrency, and performance. However, many years later, Go was suddenly forgotten as many users chose other languages like Java or Python for their projects. By Vy Le.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development product-and-design software-engineering
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Phantom types without phantom pain
Posted on July 9, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Phantom types is an interesting feature of the Scala programming language. While extremely useful for library authors, they have a reputation of being too confusing, complex and unnecessary, especially for programmers coming from different backgrounds - weakly typed languages. By Jaroslav Regec.
Tags data-and-analytics software-engineering how-to backend-development
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Python for AI and what else?
Posted on July 8, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Python has taken over the development space and Python is definitely for AI as well as many other application arenas. In fact, it's everywhere. Ask any coder, and they'll tell you that it's easy to learn and it's often the right tool for the job. By Intersog.
Tags product-and-design leadership-and-career backend-development ai-and-machine-learning how-to
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How good is Elixir performance?
Posted on July 6, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Elixir builds on top of Erlang and shares the same abstractions for building distributed, fault-tolerant applications. Since then, it's been gaining popularity because it's highly scalable, reliable, and great for Microservices and Cloud Computing. By Alex Pedchenko.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile product-and-design software-engineering
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TypeScript 5.2 beta brings explicit resource management
Posted on July 5, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length short
Forthcoming update to Microsoft's strongly-typed JavaScript also backs decorator metadata for consuming metadata on classes. By Paul Krill.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile software-engineering
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Ericsson to WhatsApp: The story of Erlang
Posted on July 2, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In this post, we're going to look at a piece of technology that was banned by the company that created it. It was kept alive by a small team of enthusiasts. Then, almost thirty years after its first development, it became the core technology underpinning one of the most important and lucrative startups of the 2010s. By Babbage.
Tags architecture-and-apis software-engineering product-and-design backend-development
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A glance at the Java performance toolbox
Posted on July 1, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Performance tuning starts with analysis, and JDK tools can help you gain insights on classes and threads and can perform live GC analysis or heap dump postprocessing: jcmd, jconsole, jstat, jmap and jfr. By Ana-Maria Mihalceanu.
Tags architecture-and-apis software-engineering product-and-design backend-development