Tag: Programming
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How to build with Terraform: Azure VMs (Windows)
Posted on December 27, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Have you created an Azure VM via the Azure portal before? If so, how many clicks did it take to do that? Can you do it, again and again, providing the exact same input values to ensure you meet a specific standard? Probably not. You need to automate the process. Create Azure VMs with Terraform! By Adam Bertram.
Tags devops app-development web-development programming azure containers
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TypeScript compilation performance best practices
Posted on December 26, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
There are easy ways to configure TypeScript to ensure faster compilations and editing experiences. The earlier that these practices can be adopted, the better. By Daniel Rosenwasser.
Tags nodejs javascript app-development web-development programming
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How to optimize large scale serverless applications for operational excellence
Posted on December 25, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Managing applications at scale often comes up as one of the biggest concerns for businesses; How can it work smoothly? How do we monitor so many resources? By Taavi Rehemägi.
Tags serverless programming devops cicd performance
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NULL values in SQL queries
Posted on December 24, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
This post is about NULL values in SQL, and comes courtesy of my friend and database wizard, Kaley. You should check out his website if you'd like to learn more about SQL, Oracle database, and making queries run faster. By Mitchum.
Tags data-science mysql database programming
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RPC over RabbitMQ (with Elixir)
Posted on November 24, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
At Community we use RabbitMQ, a lot. It's the infrastructure backbone that allows our services (over forty at this point) to communicate with each other. That mostly happens through events (since we have an event-sourced system), but in some cases what we need is a request-response interaction between two services. By Andrea Leopardi.
Tags erlang programming web-development app-development performance
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Server-Side development with Kotlin: Frameworks and libraries
Posted on November 23, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
It is quite common to use existing frameworks and libraries for backend application development. If we look at most of the popular frameworks in the Java ecosystem, many of them actually support Kotlin out of the box. There are a lot of Java libraries too. You can use these frameworks and libraries in your Kotlin programs thanks to Kotlin's flawless Java interoperability. By Anton Arhipov.
Tags kotlin programming jvm performance
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What is Ask Pattern in Akka?
Posted on November 13, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
In Akka, ask is a pattern and involves Actors as well as Futures. Ask is used to sends a message asynchronously and it returns a Future which represents a possible reply. If the actor does not reply and complete the future, it will expire after the timeout period. After the timeout period, it throws a TimeoutException. By Purva Agrawal.
Tags akka streaming scala programming
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DevSecOps – Dynamic analysis DAST with OWASP ZAP and Jenkins
Posted on November 8, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) also called Black Box Testing is a testing practice that will test the application by executing your web application. As we know, In SAST, a Web application will be tested inside the application which doesn't even require that the application should be running. By Prabhu Vignesh Kumar Rajagopal.
Tags programming cicd web-development infosec
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Rust vs Go
Posted on November 7, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
Which is better, Rust or Go? Which language should you choose for your next project, and why? How do the two compare in areas like performance, simplicity, safety, features, scale, and concurrency? By John Arundel.
Tags programming golang cio code-refactoring software performance
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YAML for beginners
Posted on November 4, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
YAML is an easy, expressive, data-oriented language that distinguishes itself from document markup languages. By Seth Kenlon @RedHat.
Tags programming web-development app-development miscellaneous
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How the HotSpot and Graal JVMs execute Java code
Posted on November 2, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
James Gough explores the subsystems that are involved in interpreting, compiling and executing a Hello World Application. He dives into JIT compilation and the arrival of the JVM Compiler Interface to explore how optimizations are applied to boost the performance. He discusses HotSpot, explores Graal and the JVM ecosystem to discover performance benefits of a platform 25 years in the making.
Tags java app-development programming miscellaneous performance
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Getting started with DevOps automation
Posted on October 31, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Automation is one of the key principles for accelerating with DevOps. It enables consistency, reliability, and efficiency within the organization, making it easier for teams to discover and troubleshoot problems. By Jared Murrell.
Tags devops teams cloud programming