Tag: Backend development
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The Futures in Scala
Posted on December 25, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Álvaro Navarro wrote this interesting short tutorial on Futures in Scala. In it he explains the nuts and bolts of dealing with Futures in Scala and Akka. Futures allow to perform many operations in parallel in an efficient and non-blocking way, but dealing with multiple operations can be a real headache.
Tags backend-development software-engineering
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Getting started with Jenkins X
Posted on December 4, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length short
Dave Johnson wrote blog post about starting with Jenkins X. Jenkins X provides continuous integration, automated testing, and continuous delivery to Kubernetes.Jenkins X-managed projects get a complete CI/CD process with a Jenkins pipeline that builds and packages project code for deployment to Kubernetes and access to pipelines for promoting projects to staging and production environments.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd backend-development testing-and-quality
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Deploy Node.js App with GitLab CI/CD
Posted on December 1, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An article by Seulkiro Park in which he sheds the light on deployment process utilizing continuous integration and continuous delivery tools offered by GitLab.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering backend-development
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Combining Amazon Aurora, Lambda, and SQS to go beyond the native capabilities of MySQL
Posted on November 26, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
David Yahalom posted on redgate Hub about innovative combination of Amazon Aurora, serverless Lambda and Simple Que Service to strecth MySQL beyond native capabilities.
Tags backend-development architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd miscellaneous data-and-analytics
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10 MySQL database tuning tips for peak workloads
Posted on November 17, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Folks from MariaDB wrote this article in which they collated 10 MySQL tuning tips for peak workloads. As we head into the holiday season and the start of a new year, now is a great time to ensure your database is ready for whatever comes its way.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics software-engineering
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Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript
Posted on November 15, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Rainer Hahnekamp wrote this blog post about object-oriented programming (OOP) in JavaScript. It is aimed at students with no prior knowledge in OOP.
Tags frontend-and-mobile software-engineering backend-development
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How to use SSL/TLS with Node.js
Posted on November 14, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Detailed article by Almir Bijedic and Florian Rappl about setting up Node.js with SSL/TLS. Let's Encrypt works beautifully, and having an SSL-secured site is easier than ever.
Tags security-and-privacy backend-development frontend-and-mobile software-engineering
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Parsing logs 230x faster with Rust
Posted on November 10, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Andre Arko blog post about dealing with logs for very busy web application behind RubyGems.org. A single day of request logs was usually around 500 gigabytes on disk. They tried few hosted logging products, but at their volume they can typically only offer a retention measured in hours. The only thing they could think of to do with the full log firehose was to run it through gzip -9 and then drop it in AWS S3.
Tags backend-development software-engineering architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics
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NGINX Unit supports TLS and JavaScript apps with Node.js
Posted on November 3, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Nick Shadrin of NGINX, Inc. wrote this article about TLS and Nodejs apps support in NGINX Unit. NGINX Unit is a dynamic web and application server, designed to run applications in multiple languages. Unit is lightweight, polyglot, and dynamically configured via API.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering business-and-emerging-tech miscellaneous backend-development frontend-and-mobile security-and-privacy
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Microservices for Java developers: Implementing microservices (synchronous, asynchronous, reactive, non-blocking)
Posted on November 2, 2018, Level advanced Resource Length short
Andrey Redko published this guide how to implement microservices for Java developers. There is a variety of paradigms you may encounter while implementing the internals of your microservices.
Tags backend-development architecture-and-apis software-engineering
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How to mock ES6 class
Posted on October 29, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Madhan Ganesh post about mocking a class in JavaScript for the purpose of unit testing. The post targets developers who are coming to ES6 from environments that has features like dependency injection and interfaces.
Tags frontend-and-mobile testing-and-quality backend-development software-engineering
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Why did we choose Elixir for backend development of MoodleNet?
Posted on October 27, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length short
Alex Castaño short technical post on their decision to use Elixir in production for their web site. MoodleNet empowers communities of educators to share and learn from each other to improve the quality of education.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile