Tag: Backend development
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Top 5 threats to apis servicing mobile apps
Posted on July 20, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
David Stewart put together this blog post about security threats to APIs. As mobile apps become increasingly paramount to operating successfully in today's markets, a big question mark over API security is raised. Gartner has previously predicted that by 2022, "API abuses will be the most-frequent attack vector resulting in data breaches for enterprise web applications." Since every mobile app out there is powered by APIs, securing them is clearly a top priority.
Tags architecture-and-apis security-and-privacy frontend-and-mobile software-engineering backend-development
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Mastering web components in Ionic 4
Posted on July 19, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this series of posts we are going to go deeper on the new structure and core concepts of Ionic 4 and explore more advanced topics. Author also believes that the few structural changes that were made in Ionic 4 are a big win for the framework. By Agustin Haller.
Tags product-and-design frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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REST API with Elixir/Phoenix - beginner's tutorial
Posted on July 18, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
For this tutorial, we are going to write a simple Books REST API with database persistence using PostgreSQL. The requirements are to have a single endpoint on /api/books that allows CRUD operations over the books resource. By Dairon Medina Caro.
Tags architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile software-engineering backend-development
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🚀 Visualizing memory management in JVM(Java, Kotlin, Scala, Groovy, Clojure)
Posted on July 17, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this multi-part series, author aims to demystify the concepts behind memory management and take a deeper look at memory management in some of the modern programming languages. By Deepu K Sasidharan; JHipster co-lead, Java, JS, Cloud Native Advocate, Developer Advocate @ Adyen, Author, Speaker, Software craftsman.
Tags backend-development software-engineering
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Centralize your automation logs with Ansible Tower and Splunk Enterprise
Posted on July 15, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
For many IT teams, automation is a core component these days. But automation is not something on it's own - it is a part of a puzzle and needs to interact with the surrounding IT. By Leonardo Araujo.
Tags backend-development devops-and-ci-cd data-and-analytics
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Introduction to Machine Learning K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) algorithm in Python
Posted on July 13, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
Machine Learning is one of the most popular approaches in Artificial Intelligence. Over the past decade, Machine Learning has become one of the integral parts of our life. It is implemented in a task as simple as recognizing human handwriting or as complex as self-driving cars. By Vibhu Singh.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics business-and-emerging-tech backend-development
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How to improve JWT performance in Node.js
Posted on July 1, 2020, Level advanced Resource Length long
Each operation, even the smallest one, counts towards the performance and availability of a service. High performance and availability must be maintained without compromising the security of the system. By Paolo Insogna @nearform.com.
Tags product-and-design security-and-privacy backend-development frontend-and-mobile
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Esbuild JavaScript bundler claims 10-100x faster bundling time
Posted on June 26, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
esbuild, a JavaScript bundler and minifier, seeks to bring order-of-magnitude speed improvements in the JavaScript bundling and minification process. esbuild achieves its speed by being written in Go compiled to native code, parallelizing tasks to leverage multi-core processors, and minimizing data transformations. By Bruno Couriol for infoq.com.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering
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Architecturing an App with functional reactive programming
Posted on June 24, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Whenever a team is about to start a new project, there's one question that always comes up: "Which architecture are we going to follow?" And every developer tends to have their own opinion on the matter, which makes perfect sense, because it's such an important topic. By Vincent Pradeilles.
Tags leadership-and-career frontend-and-mobile software-engineering architecture-and-apis backend-development
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Quick Guide on loading initial data with Spring Boot
Posted on June 20, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Spring Boot makes it really easy to manage our database changes in an easy way. If we leave the default configuration, it'll search for entities in our packages and create the respective tables automatically. By Eugen Paraschiv.
Tags backend-development product-and-design frontend-and-mobile software-engineering
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Training a deep CNN to learn about galaxies in 15 minutes
Posted on June 17, 2020, Level advanced Resource Length long
Let's train a deep neural network from scratch! In this post, I provide a demonstration of how to optimize a model in order to predict galaxy metallicities using images, and I discuss some tricks for speeding up training and obtaining better results. By John F Wu.
Tags data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning backend-development
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Do not follow JavaScript trends
Posted on June 16, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
What to do when you feel a sudden urge to use shiny new trendy framework or tool. You may ping your team lead or send a message to your whole team about this cool new way of doing things, and you suggest that you start using it. The idea of having to learn something new is good, and I agree with that, but how often should you do that? Written by Nikola Đuza.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development software-engineering leadership-and-career