Tag: Backend 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 software-engineering backend-development frontend-and-mobile data-and-analytics product-and-design
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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 backend-development frontend-and-mobile product-and-design
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How to build a GraphQL data layer for REST microservices
Posted on January 10, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
GraphQL is a great technology for microservices because you can use it as a data layer for these microservices. One use case is to combine the data from all these services into a single, unified API. By Roy Derks.
Tags architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile backend-development data-and-analytics
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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 data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile backend-development product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure how-to
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Fundamentals of functional programming with React
Posted on December 31, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Understanding the concept of functional programming is a valuable skill for React developers. It is an important topic that most React beginners often overlook, making them encounter problems when understanding how React makes some of its decisions. By Ibadehin Mojeed.
Tags software-engineering frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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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 backend-development product-and-design data-and-analytics
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The state of pattern matching in Java 17
Posted on December 29, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
The act of checking a given sequence of tokens for the presence of the constituents of some pattern. Or simply put, it's a language feature where you can test for a specific pattern on a character sequence or a data structure. By Deepu K Sasidharan.
Tags backend-development software-engineering
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How Airbnb enables consistent data consumption at scale
Posted on December 25, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this post, we will focus our story on how Minerva drastically simplifies and improves the data consumption experience for our users. Specifically, we will showcase how a unified metric layer, which we call the Minerva API, helps us build versatile data consumption experiences tailored to users with a wide range of backgrounds and varying levels of data expertise.
Tags data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development architecture-and-apis
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Comparing SPAs to SSG and SSR
Posted on December 22, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
What are the differences between Single Page Apps (SPA), Server Side Rendered Sites (SSR), and Static Site Generator based sites (SSG)? How do they compare in performance, SEO, developer experience, and flexibility? In this article, we give you an in-depth comparison of SPA, SSR, and SSG to help you make an informed decision on which strategies to use for your next front-end project. By Jacob Jackson.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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Async & await at the edge with ReactPHP
Posted on December 16, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length short
PHP 8.1 is out and the hip new feature for non-blocking and asynchronous programming in PHP are fibers. In this post we're going to explore them and see how we at ReactPHP will start with them at the edge. By Cees-Jan Kiewiet.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis backend-development product-and-design frontend-and-mobile
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API authentication with tokens
Posted on December 12, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this article I'm going to show you a few common patterns for client authentication based on tokens, and how can they be implemented in a Python API back end. This method of authentication works well for rich clients, like JavaScript-based front end applications running in the browser, or perhaps a command-line (CLI) application. By Miguel Grinberg.
Tags software-engineering architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career backend-development
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Tiered datastore solution for high data growth MySQL using Distributed SQL Databases (DSQL)
Posted on December 10, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Usually, entities like order, order items etc tend to grow substantially year on year as we scale more and serve large customers. Generally, MySQL is the widely used datastore due to its durable & ACID guarantees. While MySQL is a brilliant tech stack, it comes with the overhead of data maintenance. By Manohar K.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics backend-development leadership-and-career architecture-and-apis