Tag: Software engineering
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Frontend performance checklist
Posted on April 5, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length long
In the speed-obsessed world of today, better performance comes with serious business gains. This frontend performance checklist is a cumulative list of items that we at Crystallize found important when creating a Superfast web application that is Superfast. By Dhairya Dwivedi, Håkon Gullord Krogh.
Tags software-engineering frontend-and-mobile data-and-analytics miscellaneous
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How to use autoloading in PHP
Posted on March 29, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Autoloading is an essential feature of any modern PHP application. It allows you to load classes and dependencies automatically, making it easier to manage your code and reducing the need for manual class loading. In this tutorial, we will explore the basics of autoloading in PHP, its benefits, and how to set it up in your project. Byvegibit.com.
Tags backend-development architecture-and-apis product-and-design frontend-and-mobile software-engineering
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The architecture of Prometheus
Posted on March 24, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
This article explains the Architecture of Prometheus. Prometheus is an open source monitoring and alerting toolkit for services and applications that run in containers. Developed first at SoundCloud, the project became part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Prometheus is now the industry standard for both containerized infrastructure and classic implementation scenarios, especially within Kubernetes clusters. By Ju.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics how-to
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Why your choice of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) matters more than ever
Posted on March 22, 2023, Level advanced Resource Length medium
In my recent interview with Software Daily, I discussed that there are many companies looking for better customer experience, faster execution, and lower infrastructure costs... and that they have discovered a better use of Java to help them with just that. By John Ceccarelli.
Tags backend-development software-engineering frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis product-and-design
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Haskell in enterprise: Interview with Rob Harrison
Posted on March 21, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length long
We've all heard about Haskell success stories from famous companies like Meta and Tesla. But did you know that Haskell is successfully used in plenty of enterprises, many of which you wouldn't think of as being at the forefront of technology? By Gints Dreimanis.
Tags software-engineering architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile product-and-design
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Embracing the power of functional programming: A comprehensive guide
Posted on March 16, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Functional programming has steadily gained traction in the software development world, thanks to its ability to create more maintainable, efficient, and robust code. By Arthur Frank.
Tags software-engineering
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Pandas 2.0 and its ecosystem (Arrow, Polars, DuckDB)
Posted on March 15, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Data manipulation and analysis can be challenging and involve working with large datasets. Thankfully, a widely used Python library known as Pandas has become the go-to tool for processing and manipulating data. Pandas recently got an update, which is version 2.0. This article takes a closer look at what Pandas is, its success, and what the new version brings, including its ecosystem around Arrow, Polars, and DuckDB. By Simon Späti.
Tags data-and-analytics backend-development software-engineering
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Why and how to replace end-to-end tests with synthetic monitors
Posted on March 9, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
An older article about potential alternative to classic end-to-end tests: synthetic monitors. A thousand tests can't prove your software works. They can only prove it doesn't. When your code reaches production, even the most thorough end-to-end tests can't prevent your users from seeing that "500 - Unexpected Server Error" screen that keeps you awake at night. By Lucas da Costa.
Tags software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure testing-and-quality miscellaneous leadership-and-career
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How to handle errors in React: full guide
Posted on February 28, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
We all want our apps to be stable, to work perfectly, and cater to every edge case imaginable, isn't it? But the sad reality is we are all humans (at least that is my assumption), we all make mistakes, and there is no such thing as a bug-free code. By Nadia Makarevich.
Tags software-engineering frontend-and-mobile
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Various debugging methods in OpenResty
Posted on February 27, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length short
In OpenResty's communication group, developers often ask this question: How do debug in OpenResty? As far as I know, there are some tools in OpenResty that support breakpoint debugging, including a plugin in VSCode, but they are not widely used so far. Including the author agentzh and a few contributors I know, everyone uses the simplest ngx.log and ngx.say to do debugging. By @api7.ai.
Tags software-engineering devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis
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Build your own command-line replica with GTID aware mariadb binlog
Posted on February 24, 2023, Level advanced Resource Length medium
This blog post begins a three part series to create and customize your own asynchronous MariaDB replication client. With the release of MariaDB Community Server 10.8.1, the mariadb-binlog command line utility now supports both 1) filtering events by GTID ranges, and 2) validating a binary log's ordering of Global Transaction IDentifiers (GTIDs). By Brandon Nesterenko.
Tags product-and-design backend-development data-and-analytics software-engineering
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.NET programmer's guide to CancellationToken
Posted on February 23, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Microsoft created a standardized cancellation implementation that has far-reaching capabilities beyond its original use case. Sometimes canceling is a good thing. In many of my .NET projects, I have had plenty of motivation to cancel both internal and external processes. Microsoft learned that developers were approaching this common use case in a variety of complex implementations and decided there must be a better way. By Davit Asryan.
Tags frontend-and-mobile software-engineering how-to architecture-and-apis product-and-design