Tag: Backend development
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Google Cloud Functions for Go
Posted on October 24, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length short
JBD from Google engineering team shared this guide and experiences how to migrate services to Google Cloud Functions for golang.
Tags backend-development cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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Building minimal Docker containers for Python applications
Posted on October 21, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Nick Joyce popular tutorial explaining how to keep Docker containers size to a minimum. The fewer bytes you have to shunt over the network or store on disk, the better. Keeping the size down generally means it is faster to build and deploy your container.
Tags backend-development devops-and-ci-cd
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JVM Profiler: open source tool for tracing distributed JVM applications at scale
Posted on October 14, 2018, Level advanced Resource Length long
Bo Yang, Nan Zhu, Felix Cheung, Xu Ning from Uber Engineering team published blog post about JVM Profiles. Data is at the heart of strategic decision-making process at Uber. Right sizing the resources allocated to Spark applications and optimizing the operational efficiency of Uber data infrastructure requires fine-grained insights about these systems, namely their resource usage patterns.
Tags software-engineering backend-development architecture-and-apis miscellaneous devops-and-ci-cd data-and-analytics
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Writing lighter, faster JavaScript functions
Posted on October 11, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length short
Nick Gard sweet article about making your JavaScript functions faster. He relies on 3 simple rules to guide him.
Tags software-engineering frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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CSS debugging and optimization: browser-based developer tools
Posted on October 9, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Tiffany Brown article in which she delves into the browser-based developer tools for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. This article is very helpful for anybody on road to become a CSS master.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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PHP encryption methods for passwords and other sensitive data
Posted on October 7, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Ashley Rich published this article about various methods of protecting sensitive data in PHP. There is a range of different encryption methods in use today, the most common being hashing, secret key encryption and public key encryption. Also in PHP 7.2+ you have cryptography extension Sodium which should simplify vastly complicated cryptography landscape.
Tags backend-development security-and-privacy business-and-emerging-tech
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Deep Learning with Python for beginners
Posted on October 5, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length short
An article by Shailna Patidar in which she takes a look at Deep Learning with Python for beginners and explore the definition of Deep Learning as well as its main characteristics. Moreover, this article will go through Artificial Neural Networks and Deep Neural Networks, along with Deep Learning applications.
Tags backend-development ai-and-machine-learning software-engineering data-and-analytics
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Building a scalable promise based Node.js library
Posted on September 27, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Ross Bulat wrote a tutorial about building a scalable Node.js library based on Promises. In it he explains how to tackle large async / await Promise based libraries.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development software-engineering
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Learn how to create a Python GUI with PyQt5
Posted on September 25, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Tutorial by Michael Herrmann explains how you can use PyQt5 to build a desktop app with Python. It covers everything from the best way to set up PyQt in 2018, to compiling your app and distributing it to other people's computers.
Tags backend-development miscellaneous software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design
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Django REST with React tutorial
Posted on September 17, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Valentino Gagliardi published on his blog tutorial how to do REST with Django framework 2 and React. If you need quick API prototype quickly and is build for development speed.
Tags backend-development architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile
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Beginner's guide to designing smart chatbots
Posted on September 15, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An article by Vaibhav Verma, an User Experience Designer at Haptik, about his experience with designing the smart chatbots over 4 years period. He has designed more than 50 chatbots across various domains and use cases.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning backend-development miscellaneous business-and-emerging-tech product-and-design
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Compiler hinting with Kotlin contracts
Posted on September 14, 2018, Level advanced Resource Length short
Jarno Walgemoed short introduction on some new interesting features in Kotlin 1.3. Kotlin's built-in null-safety makes it easy for us to write code that's less error-prone and less susceptible to the unwanted and unexpected NullpointerException at runtime. Kotlin is introducing Contracts in the upcoming 1.3 release in which we can use contracts to tell the compiler how a function behaves and what results are implied, so we can benefit from improved smart-casts.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile product-and-design