Tag: Backend development
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Build a GraphQL Server using Deno from scratch
Posted on February 19, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
GraphQL is already known for its good parts. GraphQL helps to build super scalable APIs. It reduces coupling between code and data provider. Deno is one of the fastest-growing frameworks/languages to build APIs. By Deepak Vishwakarma.
Tags architecture-and-apis product-and-design backend-development frontend-and-mobile
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How to make Kafka Consumer compatible with Gevent in Python
Posted on February 17, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Asynchronous task management using Gevent improves scalability and resource efficiency for distributed systems. However, using this tool with Kafka can be challenging. By Jessica Zhao and Boyang Wei.
Tags backend-development devops-and-ci-cd data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis
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Angular routing guide: How to optimize app navigation
Posted on February 14, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
Angular is one of the most popular front-end frameworks, with 30% of developers preferring it for their projects. Angular is especially useful for large scale projects with many different views and components. By Ryan Thelin.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development product-and-design
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Open sourcing the Netflix Domain Graph Service Framework: GraphQL for Spring Boot
Posted on February 12, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Alex Birsan recently published his article "Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies" in which he explains how he used language level package managers like npm (Javascript), pip (Python), and gems (Ruby) to get companies to install and run his malicious code on their infrastructure. By Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile product-and-design
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Preventing dependency confusion in PHP with Composer
Posted on February 11, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Alex Birsan recently published his article "Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies" in which he explains how he used language level package managers like npm (Javascript), pip (Python), and gems (Ruby) to get companies to install and run his malicious code on their infrastructure. By Nils Adermann.
Tags backend-development software-engineering frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design
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Spring Batch on Kubernetes: Efficient batch processing at scale
Posted on February 6, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Batch processing has been a challenging area of computer science since its inception in the early days of punch cards and magnetic tapes. By Mahmoud Ben Hassine.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering backend-development
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From first principles: Why Scala?
Posted on February 5, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Scala, first appearing in 2004, is neither an old stalwart nor a new player in the programming language market. This post will discuss the unique combination of features that Scala provides and how it compares to other languages on the market, diving beneath the superficial experience to explore the fundamentals of the language. By Haoyi.
Tags backend-development product-and-design software-engineering
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How to detect complex duplicated methods with PHPStan
Posted on January 15, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
Duplicated code is a code smell that hides the potential of better design. How can we find it? Is it 100 % identical code token by token? Are methods getName() and getName() on 2 entities duplicated? By Tomas Votruba.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile testing-and-quality software-engineering
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Junit 5 tutorial for beginners
Posted on January 10, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
Sai Upadhyayula wrote this piece about Junit. Junit 5 is one of the popular testing frameworks in the Java Development World. Even though JUnit 5 is a successor for Junit 4, the architecture of the framework is completely different, so let's have a look at the Architecture of Junit 5.
Tags backend-development testing-and-quality software-engineering leadership-and-career
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Best practices of comprehensions in Elixir
Posted on January 8, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Surprising examples of using for-comprehension in Elixir. For comprehension provides a very elegant syntax to loop over collections and an effective way to transform the given enumerable. By Kamil Lelonek.
Tags software-engineering backend-development architecture-and-apis
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Developing Gatsby sites using Nx
Posted on January 7, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Nx is a suite of powerful, extensible dev tools that help you develop, test, build, and scale with React and React frameworks like Gatsby, Next.js, React Native, etc. Co-authored by Max Koretskyi, Victor Savkin & Juri Strumpflohner.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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Docker for Java developers: 5 things you need to know not to fail your security
Posted on January 6, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
In this article we will focus on the Docker container security aspects related to building a Docker image, reducing the security vulnerabilities count introduced by Docker base images as well as Dockerfile security best practices. By Liran Tal and Omer Levi Hevroni.
Tags security-and-privacy devops-and-ci-cd backend-development miscellaneous