Tag: Software engineering
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Building a CLI chat app with Go and WebSockets
Posted on March 18, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
In this tutorial you will elarn about more about the WebSockets protocol. Go provides a WebSocket library, but the Go team advises to use other solutions built by the community. By Gustavo Caso.
Tags software-engineering backend-development
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Building a minesweeper game using React Hooks
Posted on March 17, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Author of this blog post will share his experience and learnings with a project to improve my knowledge of the most significant ReactJS feature in recent time -- hooks. Tutorial is about building Minesweeper clone. TypeScript was also used. By Ivaylo.
Tags software-engineering frontend-and-mobile product-and-design
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Variable fonts: Is the performance trade-off worth it?
Posted on March 8, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
Anna Monus wrote this piece about variable fonts. Variable fonts are popular for two reasons: they expand design possibilities and improve website performance. While the former statement is definitely true since variable fonts do provide infinite typographical choices, the latter only holds under certain conditions.
Tags product-and-design software-engineering frontend-and-mobile leadership-and-career
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Building serverless Scala services with GraalVM native image
Posted on March 2, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Using GraalVM's Native Image tool to create native executables. Author describes the steps necessary to build a native executable from a simple http4s web service. There is also complete code accompanying this example. By Noel Welsh.
Tags backend-development software-engineering
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Concurnas language taps JVM for high-performance apps
Posted on March 1, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Python-like, Java-compatible language aims to ease development of concurrent, distributed, and parallel systems. By Paul Krill.
Tags backend-development software-engineering
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Five misconceptions on how NodeJS works
Posted on February 29, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
NodeJS was born in 2009 and it has gained massive popularity throughout the years because of one reason. It's just JavaScript! Well, it's a JavaScript runtime designed to write server-side applications, but the statement that "It's just JavaScript" is not 100% true. By Deepal Jayasekara.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development software-engineering
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Securing Firefox with WebAssembly
Posted on February 28, 2020, Level advanced Resource Length medium
Protecting the security and privacy of individuals is a central tenet of Mozilla's mission, and so they constantly endeavor to make their users safer online. With a complex and highly-optimized system like Firefox, memory safety is one of the biggest security challenges. By Nathan Froyd.
Tags software-engineering security-and-privacy miscellaneous frontend-and-mobile
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7 Easy functional programming techniques in Go
Posted on February 27, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Deepu K Sasidharan put together this article for Go developers interested in functional programming. Do not worry, you don't have to learn functional programming oriented languages like Haskell or Clojure(or even Scala or JavaScript though they are not pure functional programming languages) since Go has you covered and this post is for you.
Tags backend-development software-engineering
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The magic of generating an Xcode project
Posted on February 21, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Planet Earth vs. Jupiter. There is the same order of magnitude between the ratio of these two planets and the amount of code that defined the SoundCloud iOS project before -- Jupiter -- and after -- Earth -- generating it using Tuist. By Andrea Cipriani.
Tags frontend-and-mobile ai-and-machine-learning product-and-design software-engineering
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Building an adaptive, multi-tenant stream bus with Kafka and Golang
Posted on February 20, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Back in the 2000s, SOAP/WSDL with ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) was the dominant server-side architecture for many companies. Since the 2010s, microservices and service mesh technologies have grown wildly and thus became the de-facto industry standards. By Xinyu Liu.
Tags architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics devops-and-ci-cd frontend-and-mobile software-engineering
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7 ways to remove duplicates from an array in JavaScript
Posted on February 19, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Jayanth Babu wrote this article about how to remove duplicates from an array in JavaScript. It's a common use case in many projects to need to remove duplicates from array in JavaScript. For interviews, it's a common coding challenge to practice for everyone.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile software-engineering
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How to automate PostgreSQL 12 replication and failover with repmgr
Posted on February 17, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An article about using repmgr for Postgres replication failover. repmgr is an open-source toolset from 2ndQuadrant, a leading specialist in PostgreSQL-related technologies and services. The product is used to automate, enhance, and manage PostgreSQL streaming replication. By Sadequl Hussain.
Tags architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics software-engineering