Tag: Backend development
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Structuring applications in Go
Posted on March 5, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An article by Liam Andrew Cura about his Gog journey. For him the hardest part of learning Go was in structuring his application. Go doesn't prescribe any particular project layout or application structure and Go's conventions are mostly stylistic.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile software-engineering architecture-and-apis
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Managing analysis workflows in geospatial data science with GNU Make
Posted on March 3, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Martí Bosch wrote this guide how to go about using Jupyter Notebooks while using iterative approach to both data analysis and software development. He will also explain how to avoid some bad practices. Many issues can be settled by choosing helpful file names, good organization, documentation and source control of the code.
Tags data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning miscellaneous backend-development
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MySQL high availability framework explained – part one
Posted on February 24, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
This is three-part blog series, in which author explains the details and functionality of a High Availability (HA) framework for MySQL hosting using MySQL semisynchronous replication and the Corosync plus Pacemaker stack. Published by Prasad Nagaraj VP Engineering at ScaleGrid.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics software-engineering devops-and-ci-cd
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Common API mistakes and how to avoid them
Posted on February 24, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Thomas Hunter II is author of this guide on hot topic how to avoid common API mistakes. The advice in this article applies to any API. However, some of the issues author considers are easier to encounter when the application is written in a dynamic language, such as JavaScript, versus a more static language, such as Java.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd
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Laravel OOP principles for writing better code explained
Posted on February 20, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An blog post by Peter Matisko about PHP framework Laravel and how to use Object Oriented Programming (OOP) for writing better code.
Tags backend-development software-engineering frontend-and-mobile
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Introduction to ZGC: Scalable and experimental low-latency JVM garbage collector
Posted on February 17, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Attila Fejér is author of this interesting read about address issue with managing memory for highly available and scalable systems in Java. Java 11 introduced the Z Garbage Collector (ZGC) as an experimental garbage collector (GC) implementation.
Tags backend-development software-engineering
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How to make Python wait
Posted on February 14, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Posted by Miguel Grinberg this article explains various (in)correct ways of implementing threads for time when it is necessary to pause the running of the program until some external condition occurs.
Tags backend-development software-engineering leadership-and-career
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Comparing JVM performance; Zulu OpenJDK, OpenJDK, Oracle JDK, GraalVM CE
Posted on January 15, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Comparison article by Maarten Smeets in which he tries to help you to choose the best Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for your project. There are many different choices for a JVM for your Java application.
Tags backend-development software-engineering devops-and-ci-cd
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React Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
Posted on January 5, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
John Tucker wrote this little guide in which he explores React BDD using Gherkin syntax with Jest Cucumber.
Tags software-engineering testing-and-quality frontend-and-mobile backend-development product-and-design
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Clean code checklist in Angular
Posted on January 2, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Mathis Garberg posted a piece about how as we become better developers, structuring and organizing code becomes more and more important. Angular has rapidly grown to become one of the most popular frameworks for building front-end, cross-platform web applications. To master it, author decided to put together a clean code checklist which covers my personal recommendations for writing clean production-ready Angular code.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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How to make WordPress page cache plugins fly with NGINX
Posted on December 30, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Ashley Rich posted an article about improving WordPress performance uisng NGINX caching. There are a ton of WordPress page caching plugins available, but limiting yourself to cache plugins alone means leaving significant performance improvements on the table.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd frontend-and-mobile backend-development software-engineering
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Simple Kafka producer in Kotlin, tutorial
Posted on December 26, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The first in series of tutorials by Alexis Seigneurin focused on Kafka. Author focuses on producing, consuming and processing messages or events.
Tags backend-development software-engineering data-and-analytics devops-and-ci-cd