Tag: Product and design
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Using Redis with FastAPI
Posted on September 12, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length short
FastAPI is a Python web framework based on the Starlette microframework. With deep support for asyncio, FastAPI is indeed very fast. FastAPI also distinguishes itself with features like automatic OpenAPI (OAS) documentation for your API, easy-to-use data validation tools, and more. By Andrew Brookins.
Tags data-and-analytics frontend-and-mobile product-and-design backend-development
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What is Azure Local and why should SysAdmins care?
Posted on September 10, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Azure Local is not just a rebrand. It's a message. One that says Microsoft finally gets how confusing their cloud naming has been. Microsoft's hybrid story has been a bit confusing over the years, but now we have some clarity. By Andy Syrewicze.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd frontend-and-mobile product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure
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Building dynamic user journeys: Your guide to Next.js onboarding with OnboardJS
Posted on September 8, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Next.js onboarding flows often become complex due to manual state management, conditional logic, and persistence across sessions. Managing step logic, dynamic navigation, persistence across sessions, and analytics can turn your elegant codebase into a complex web of conditional rendering and state management. By onboardjs.com.
Tags frontend-and-mobile product-and-design leadership-and-career
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Securing Kubernetes resources without a VPN
Posted on September 4, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Securing kubernetes resources that you want to expose to only some users externally is often done through IP allowlisting and a VPN. While this is a tried and true method, there are some drawbacks. By Brian Sizemore.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd product-and-design security-and-privacy
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Interoperability in 2025: Beyond the Erlang VM
Posted on August 29, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length short
The Erlang Virtual Machine has, historically, provided three main options for interoperability with other languages and ecosystems, with different degrees of isolation. By Wojtek Mach.
Tags backend-development product-and-design frontend-and-mobile
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PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator: What it means
Posted on August 26, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length short
PHP 8.5, due out November of this year, will bring with it another long-sought-after feature: the pipe operator (|>). It's a small feature with huge potential, yet it still took years to happen. By Larry Garfield.
Tags backend-development cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis product-and-design frontend-and-mobile
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Commenting in MySQL: Syntax, best practices, and examples
Posted on August 22, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
MySQL comments, in the structure of text, are ignored by the MySQL engine and used to explain and document your database code. They don't affect query execution. You should used your database comments as a resource to other individuals who will review or modify the database. Comments should adhere to best practices to increase readability to other developers. By Devart.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics product-and-design leadership-and-career
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The future of data processing: PostgreSQL evolution with YingJun Wu of Rising Wave
Posted on August 20, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
RisingWave, founded by YingJun Wu, is a stream processing system that has gained attention for its PostgreSQL compatibility and efficient resource utilization. Unlike traditional systems like Apache Flink, RisingWave leverages S3 as its primary storage, similar to Snowflake's architecture. This approach not only reduces storage costs but also enables seamless elastic scaling. By Firebolt Team.
Tags data-and-analytics product-and-design architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career
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Serverless is not a primary
Posted on August 18, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The article emphasizes that while serverless is a powerful and exciting architectural pattern, it's frequently misapplied. Organizations often hope serverless will solve their software delivery problems, but it's actually an enabler that requires strong foundational practices to realize its benefits. By Seth Orell.
Tags architecture-and-apis product-and-design frontend-and-mobile leadership-and-career devops-and-ci-cd
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Amazon DocumentDB serverless: Auto-scaling database solution for variable workloads
Posted on August 16, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
The primary goal of Amazon DocumentDB Serverless is to simplify operational overhead and reduce costs for developers using DocumentDB, a MongoDB-compatible database service. AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon DocumentDB Serverless, an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration for Amazon DocumentDB. However, it's important to note that while AWS markets it as "serverless," it aligns more with an auto-scaling model rather than a scale-to-zero model, which is a key differentiator often associated with true serverless offerings. By Steef-Jan Wiggers.
Tags architecture-and-apis product-and-design frontend-and-mobile data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure
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SwiftUI + Core animation: Demystify all sorts of groups
Posted on August 13, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
The Core Animation framework serves as the infrastructure between the top-level UI frameworks and the underlying rendering and composition techniques, whether you are using UIKit, AppKit, or SwiftUI to lay out or draw your top-level UI. By Juniper Photon.
Tags frontend-and-mobile product-and-design architecture-and-apis
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How to evaluate graph retrieval in MCP agentic systems
Posted on August 5, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Agentic systems, which leverage tools like knowledge graphs, often struggle with effectively retrieving relevant information from these graphs to inform their decision-making process, leading to inaccuracies and inefficiencies. This article addresses the need for robust evaluation of graph retrieval components within these systems. By Tomaz Bratanic.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning product-and-design frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics