Tag: Backend development
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Exploring site speed optimisations with WebPageTest and Cloudflare Workers
Posted on October 7, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
One of the common questions often asked by clients is "What difference will the changes you're recommending make to our site's speed"? By Andy Davies.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile software-engineering
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Behind the scenes: How do lambda expressions really work in Java?
Posted on October 6, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A look into the bytecode to see how Java handles lambdas. What does a lambda expression look like inside Java code and inside the JVM? It is obviously some type of value, and Java permits only two sorts of values: primitive types and object references. By Ben Evans.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile product-and-design architecture-and-apis
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Building a chat application using SvelteJS and SSE
Posted on October 5, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
If you've already developed web applications with ReactJS or VueJS, you've probably heard of SvelteJS. In this article, author will explore this new framework to discover its subtleties, and show you how it is not so different from others (on the surface). By Julien Demangeon.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure
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Everything about null in JavaScript
Posted on October 4, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
JavaScript has 2 kinds of types: primitives (strings, booleans, numbers, symbols) and objects. But there are situations when an object cannot be created. For such cases, JavaScript provides a special value null -- which indicates a missing object. By Dmitri Pavlutin.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile software-engineering
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Angular security best practices
Posted on October 2, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
This time, we dive straight into the modern Angular security best practices. By Liran Tal, Natalia Venditto.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile security-and-privacy
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Writing AWS Lambda functions with Typescript and Webpack
Posted on September 29, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
Whether you use terraform, the terraform cdk or the aws cdk, you still need to compile your source code and make them into lambda deployment packages. By Julian.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis
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How I built a serverless recipes app with FaunaDB and Vue.js
Posted on September 28, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
The author's experience with building a minimal web application that would serve him and his wife as a recipes collection for food that we enjoy cooking. Convenient bonus features like PWA functionality (i.e. using the app on the phone or tablet when standing in the kitchen) and user authentication should be available too, making sure it's not just functional, but also enjoyable to use. By Tom.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis
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How to optimize Vue.js applications
Posted on September 27, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Performance is a touchy subject in software engineering. It's one thing to write code and ship it; it's another thing entirely to make it faster and more enjoyable for your users — and the next developers after you. Published on theninja.blog.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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Getting started with Knative in Scala
Posted on September 24, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Knative is an open source project that extends Kubernetes by providing a set of middleware components simplifying deploying, running, and managing serverless applications. By Boris Lublinsky.
Tags backend-development architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering
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What is Flutter? What makes it a good choice? And How does it Work?
Posted on September 17, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Flutter is based on Google's programming language called Dart. In fact, it is a typed and object-oriented programming language that can be compiled to machine code or transpiled to JavaScript. By Marwa Mejri – Mobile Software Developer @Proxym.
Tags product-and-design backend-development cloud-and-infrastructure frontend-and-mobile
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Zero to AWS Lambda in Scala
Posted on September 14, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
AWS Lambda is the platform for deploying functions to the AWS cloud. You can use it to develop functions that respond to AWS events (eg S3 uploads, DynamoDB inserts), AWS API calls, or via HTTP endpoints using the API Gateway. By Jason Swartz.
Tags architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development software-engineering
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How to advance in blockchain as a Java developer
Posted on September 11, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Come 2009, and mysteriously out of the blocks emerged a cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, coded using a technique described in 1991 as blockchain. Bitcoin attracted sustained attention, and blockchain, which until then was largely unnoticed, basked in the dawn of a new era of promise. By Girish.
Tags backend-development business-and-emerging-tech miscellaneous leadership-and-career