Tag: Backend development
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Maersk mobile: All the way with Flutter
Posted on November 24, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
During the pandemic, the use of Maersk App skyrocketed. To meet the growing number of feature requests and scale our solution, a different approach was required. Keeping up with requirements to solve the business needs of our customers was challenging and time-consuming as all development had to be done twice for two native (Android and iOS) apps. Over time, tech debt for maintaining two codebases was getting high as the underlying platforms changed as well as new features and services for our customers in a rapidly growing userbase. By Gaurav Bhatnagar, Satish Kumar.
Tags backend-development product-and-design frontend-and-mobile leadership-and-career
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A deeper dive into WebAssembly, the new executable format for the web
Posted on November 15, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Author recently spoke with some industry experts about three technologies they predict will be the Next Big Things. One of the 3 in particular deserves a more detailed look: WebAssembly (often abbreviated as Wasm). Wasm has caught the interest of many because it extends the language support for browsers beyond JavaScript. By Dave McAllister of F5.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile product-and-design devops-and-ci-cd
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How to add Playwright tests to your pull request CI with GitHub Actions
Posted on November 14, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
If you're like me, you really appreciate a test automation step as part of your pull request (PR) CI for that added confidence before merging code. I want to show you how to add Playwright tests to your PRs and how to tie it all together with a GitHub Actions CI workflow. By Liran Tal.
Tags testing-and-quality backend-development frontend-and-mobile product-and-design
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Scala Toolkit makes Scala powerful straight out of the box
Posted on November 13, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Scala Toolkit is an ongoing effort by Scala Center and VirtusLab to compose a set of approachable libraries to solve everyday problems. These libraries will be made easily accessible as a precomposed package. This package will be available for each Scala release. By Szymon Rodziewicz.
Tags backend-development architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics product-and-design
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Concurrency in Go-2(Go Channels)
Posted on October 25, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
The channel acts as a pipe by which we send typed values from one Goroutine to another. It guarantees synchronization since only one Goroutine has access to a data item at any given time. The ownership of the data is passed between different Goroutine. By Neeraj Kumar.
Tags product-and-design software-engineering backend-development
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Asynchronous tasks with Flask and Celery
Posted on October 23, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
If a long-running process is part of your application's workflow, rather than blocking the response, you should handle it in the background, outside the normal request/response flow. By Michael Herman.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile product-and-design
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Optimizing Apache JVMs for Apache Kafka
Posted on October 18, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) impact Apache Kafka® performance in production. How can you optimize your event-streaming architectures so they process more Kafka messages using the same number of JVMs? Podcast by confluent.io.
Tags software-engineering backend-development
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Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server exciting new backup and restore enhancements
Posted on October 17, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Backup and restore are key pillars for business continuity and disaster recovery offerings for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. We're excited to announce new features including Fast Restore, Geo Restore and Custom Restore Points to allow you more fine-grained control on your DR plan to achieve the RPO and RTO objectives. In this post we'll share an overview of each of these new features. By Varun Dhawan.
Tags data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development devops-and-ci-cd
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Postgres: Better message queue than Kafka?
Posted on October 13, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Today author is going to talk about why they made the unconventional decision to build thier logging system on top of Postgres, what worked well, what didn't work well, and how they did it. By Pete Hunt.
Tags data-and-analytics backend-development product-and-design
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Kotlin JDSL: Let's use Kotlin to easily write reactive Criteria API
Posted on September 27, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this post, we'll be looking at Kotlin JDSL Reactive modules. While many of you might have a preconceived notion that JPA cannot be reactive, Hibernate released a reactive JPA library called Hibernate Reactive. By Hyunsik Kang.
Tags software-engineering backend-development architecture-and-apis
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How to program an IoT device in Elixir using Nerves?
Posted on September 26, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Elixir is a great choice language for IoT devices due to its fault-tolerant nature, but also because of the ability to handle a lot of concurrent I/O operations thanks to the BEAM scheduler running under the hood. By Artur Ziętkiewicz.
Tags software-engineering business-and-emerging-tech backend-development
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Java memory model
Posted on September 24, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
The goal of this post is to get familiar with how memory works in java. We will see how it works in combination with the OS it runs on, how it's structured and how it functions internally inside a JVM. By Nermin Karapandzic.
Tags backend-development software-engineering product-and-design