Tag: Backend development
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Building serverless Scala services with GraalVM native image
Posted on March 2, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Using GraalVM's Native Image tool to create native executables. Author describes the steps necessary to build a native executable from a simple http4s web service. There is also complete code accompanying this example. By Noel Welsh.
Tags backend-development software-engineering
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Concurnas language taps JVM for high-performance apps
Posted on March 1, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Python-like, Java-compatible language aims to ease development of concurrent, distributed, and parallel systems. By Paul Krill.
Tags backend-development software-engineering
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Five misconceptions on how NodeJS works
Posted on February 29, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
NodeJS was born in 2009 and it has gained massive popularity throughout the years because of one reason. It's just JavaScript! Well, it's a JavaScript runtime designed to write server-side applications, but the statement that "It's just JavaScript" is not 100% true. By Deepal Jayasekara.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development software-engineering
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7 Easy functional programming techniques in Go
Posted on February 27, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Deepu K Sasidharan put together this article for Go developers interested in functional programming. Do not worry, you don't have to learn functional programming oriented languages like Haskell or Clojure(or even Scala or JavaScript though they are not pure functional programming languages) since Go has you covered and this post is for you.
Tags backend-development software-engineering
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7 ways to remove duplicates from an array in JavaScript
Posted on February 19, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Jayanth Babu wrote this article about how to remove duplicates from an array in JavaScript. It's a common use case in many projects to need to remove duplicates from array in JavaScript. For interviews, it's a common coding challenge to practice for everyone.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile software-engineering
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A Pythonista's review of Haskell
Posted on February 7, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
An article by Ying Wang about his experience with trying Haskell after using Python in production for few years. Even as it's a wonderful Swiss Army knife, Python also feels limiting in some ways. The same classes of bugs (e.g. type casting / translation errors, state management errors) kept cropping up, and Sisyphean bugs frustrate me. Python is also quite slow when you compare the operations you want to execute vs. the theoretical maximum performance of those operations on the underlying hardware. He kept wondering about what was possible if he had used a different tool.
Tags backend-development software-engineering
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Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust
Posted on February 5, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Jesse Howarth wrote this piece about how they seen success with Rust on the client side and server side. For example, they use it on the client side for our video encoding pipeline for Go Live and on the server side for Elixir NIFs. Most recently, they drastically improved the performance of a service by switching its implementation from Go to Rust.
Tags software-engineering backend-development frontend-and-mobile how-to
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TypeScript's secret parallel universe
Posted on January 27, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Florian Reuschel put together this tutorial for new TypeScript users. He focuses on one of the most underreported topics in the TypeScript tutorial world: the type scope.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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Successfully porting complex data-driven frontends to React with GraphQL
Posted on January 25, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
When porting existing code to React, there is a couple of things to look out for. This article shares my experience while porting a section of a Rails app to React and consuming data through GraphQL. By Neel Barthel.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development architecture-and-apis
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Building Angular CLI projects with Github Actions
Posted on January 24, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
The Angular CLI provides all the built tools out of the box to create, build, and test Angular applications. In this post, we will build a continuous integration (CI) build system using Github Actions. By Cory Rylan.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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SQL Injection: A beginner's guide for WordPress users
Posted on January 22, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
SQL injection, or SQLi, is an attack on a web application by compromising its database through malicious SQL statements. As it's a common attack, let's try to learn more about what it is, how it happens, and how to defend yourself from it. By Shaunik Daityari.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure
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TensorFlow 2 Tutorial: Get started in Deep Learning with tf.keras
Posted on January 17, 2020, Level advanced Resource Length long
Jason Brownlee wrote this tutorial to get you started with Deep Learning in TensorFlow. Predictive modeling with deep learning is a skill that modern developers need to know.
Tags data-and-analytics backend-development how-to leadership-and-career