Tag: Backend development
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Angular 8 brings smaller bundles, CLI APIs, alignment with the ecosystem
Posted on June 16, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
Stephen Fluin put together this article focusing on explaining what is exciting in the newest version of the Angular.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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Image recognition in Python with TensorFlow and Keras
Posted on June 14, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
One of the most common utilizations of TensorFlow and Keras is the recognition/classification of images. If you want to learn how to use Keras to classify or recognize images, this article will teach you how.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics
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Comparison of 3 programming languages for a full-fledged next-generation sequencing tool
Posted on June 6, 2019, Level advanced Resource Length long
Study done by Pascal Costanza, Charlotte Herzeel and Wilfried Verachtert for new implementation language for elPrep. elPrep is an established multi-threaded framework for preparing SAM and BAM files in sequencing pipelines. To achieve good performance, its software architecture makes only a single pass through a SAM/BAM file for multiple preparation steps, and keeps sequencing data as much as possible in main memory.
Tags software-engineering backend-development
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Distributed systems with RabbitMQ
Posted on June 5, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this article we're going to talk about the benefits of distributed systems and how to move to distributed systems using RabbitMQ. Then we will learn the fundamentals of RabbitMQ and how to interact with it using Python. Written by Denis Orehovsky.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd backend-development software-engineering architecture-and-apis
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How we use Apache Kafka and the Confluent Platform
Posted on June 4, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Jendrik Poloczek from confluent.io published this article about their experience building the core infrastructure to integrate, clean, and analyze blockchain data.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis backend-development
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Finding the cheapest flights for a multi-leg trip with Amadeus API and Python
Posted on June 3, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Vladimir Iakovlev is the author of this tutorial about finding cheapest flights for a multi-leg trip with Amadeus API and Python. Amadeus Travel APIs connect you to the richest information in the travel industry.
Tags backend-development ai-and-machine-learning software-engineering
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Small & fast Docker images using GraalVM's native-image
Posted on June 2, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An article by Adam Warski focusing on optimization of deployment images. The JVM ecosystem has a lot of great traits, but small, cloud-deployment-friendly Docker images is not one of them.
Tags backend-development devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering
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Indexes bad practices
Posted on June 1, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In this article author will discuss secondary indexes common mistakes and bad practices. While the article is focused on MySQL and the InnoDB storage engine, most of this information applies to any DBMS. Published by Federico Razzoli.
Tags data-and-analytics backend-development miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure
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Exposing MyRocks internals via system variables: data writing
Posted on May 31, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Peter Sylvester wrote this blog post about new storage engine for MySQL that's rising in popularity. MyRocks, the log-structured merge-driven RocksDB engine in MySQL.
Tags data-and-analytics backend-development miscellaneous
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Using JaCoCo as code coverage tool for Scala
Posted on May 29, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Straight to the point guide by Miles Buckley focusing on open source coverage tool for Java.
Tags architecture-and-apis backend-development software-engineering
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Phoenix LiveView: leave regular web development behind
Posted on May 19, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Introduction into Phoenix LiveView by Jean DerGurahian. A frequent goal of web development is to create meaningful, satisfying user experiences through robust web applications. LiveView-powered applications are stateful on the server with bidirectional communication via WebSockets, offering a vastly simplified programming model compared to JavaScript alternatives.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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API design: Why you should use links, not keys, to represent relationships in APIs
Posted on May 17, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An article by Martin Nally from Google about how expressing relationships is very important in APIs. The most common way that API developers express relationships is to expose database keys, or proxies for them, in the fields of the entities they expose.
Tags architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure software-engineering backend-development