Tag: Backend development
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How to build a powerful e-learning platform using Scala and Redis
Posted on December 9, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Never before has online learning been so accessible. Whether you want to discover more about cryptocurrency, sharpen your programming skills or even just learn a new language, the digital age has gifted everyone access to a phenomenal amount of content. However, over time e-learning has been viewed as just another digital commodity, where users expect all online content to be instantaneous. Speed remains crucial to performance, where any lags or delays in page loading time kills the user's experience. By Redis Growth Team.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous backend-development ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics
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How does an SQL injection attack work? Examples & types
Posted on December 6, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A SQL injection (SQLi) attack is one of the most threatening issues for data integrity and confidentiality today, allowing attackers to access secure data where they are not authorized. In this article, we discuss SQLi and how these attacks work, with types and examples. By Al Mahmud Al Mamun.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development data-and-analytics miscellaneous leadership-and-career architecture-and-apis
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Introduction to Numpy in python
Posted on November 25, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
NumPy is a valuable and efficient tool for dealing with large amounts of data. NumPy is quick; thus, it's easy to work with a vast amount of data. Data analysis libraries like NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, and others have exploded in popularity due to the data science revolution. By Sonia Jessica.
Tags backend-development ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics how-to leadership-and-career
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How to build GitHub Actions in PHP with Minicli and Docker
Posted on November 19, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
GitHub Actions facilitates creating CI/CD automated workflows that can be triggered by GitHub events, such as when a pull request is created, a merge is made, or a new comment is posted on an issue. What some people may not know is that you can also run GitHub actions at scheduled times, based on cron expressions. By Erika Heidi.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd backend-development architecture-and-apis product-and-design
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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 backend-development frontend-and-mobile software-engineering product-and-design
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Transitioning from MySQL to MongoDB
Posted on November 7, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
This article will not discuss the different types of database systems, like RDBMS and so on. We will, however, focus on two concepts: SQL Databases and NoSQL databases. By @peteradeojo.
Tags data-and-analytics software-engineering backend-development devops-and-ci-cd
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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 frontend-and-mobile product-and-design backend-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 architecture-and-apis product-and-design security-and-privacy frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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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 data-and-analytics product-and-design backend-development frontend-and-mobile
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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-and-ci-cd backend-development frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design
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Gavin Bierman explains pattern matching for switch, a Java 17 preview
Posted on October 15, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Pattern matching for switch follows logically from pattern matching for instanceof, which was delivered as part of JDK 16. By Justine Kavanaugh-Brown
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile product-and-design
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Investigate Node.js high CPU issue in Linux app service
Posted on October 11, 2021, Level advanced Resource Length medium
When running your Node.js application in Azure Linux App Service, you may encounter High CPU consumption issue. By Hanli_Ren.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development software-engineering product-and-design