Tag: Web development
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A complete guide to distributed tracing
Posted on March 18, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Distributed tracing helps you track requests across services and understand issues affecting your application performance. In distributed cloud architecture, debugging performance issues is complicated. By Ankit Anand.
Tags cloud programming agile monitoring web-development servers performance
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Applying product thinking to slack's internal compute platform
Posted on March 16, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
When creating a platform, it's critical to have clearly defined customers and products that will benefit from it rather than building in a vacuum. By Javier Turegano Director, Software Engineering @slack.
Tags ux web-development management teams agile learning crypto
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Architecture Pattern: Orchestration via workflows
Posted on March 13, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Most business processes involve doing multiple things across multiple systems. Imagine onboarding a new vendor onto a B2B platform. When a vendor is onboarded, we might have to create an identity for it, trigger some sort of verification process, issue new API keys and credentials to it, and so on. All of these steps typically happen across multiple teams and technical modules. By Kislay Verma.
Tags cio app-development software-architecture web-development miscellaneous
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How to become a Golang developer: A 6-step career guide
Posted on March 11, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Go is an in-demand language across the board. Today, we'll discuss the steps to become an employable and modern Go developer. By The Educative Team.
Tags programming career web-development app-development golang
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Build at the Edge with OpenFaaS and GitHub actions
Posted on March 10, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Learn how GitHub Actions and OpenFaaS can be used for simple functions at the edge of your network. If you're running Kubernetes in production then you'll be aware of how difficult it can be to operate. Not only do you need to learn its concepts and API, but if you extend it in any way, then you'll be needing to maintain all your custom changes over time. As the author of several applications and operators targeting Kubernetes, I have to dedicate much of my time to maintenance and migrations. By Alex Ellis.
Tags serverless web-development app-development apis iot
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Discarding magic feathers -- Going frameworkless in Scala
Posted on February 25, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A good few years back, I looked into building a Scala webapp using Java's little-known provided HTTP server rather than one of the many frameworks already out there during my 10% time at Springer Nature. I made a mistake here - to avoid those frameworks I built my own framework to route requests within a webapp. I called it Sommelier, and it is now hidden away in a private github repo as really, we don't need another of those. Maybe we don't need any of them at all. By Jim Kinsey.
Tags scala akka programming app-development web-development
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How to create your own Google Chrome extension
Posted on February 15, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
If you are a Google Chrome user, you've probably used some extensions in the browser. Have you ever wondered how to build one yourself? In this article, I will show you how you can create a Chrome extension from scratch. By Sampurna Chapagain.
Tags browsers javascript web-development app-development
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The file system access API with Origin Private File System
Posted on February 14, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
It is very common for an application to interact with local files. For exampe, a general workflow is opening a file, making some changes, and saving the file. By Sihui Liu.
Tags browsers javascript web-development cio
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A primer on WebAssembly
Posted on January 26, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
To understand why there was a requirement for WebAssembly, let's take a not-so-quick stroll down memory lane. And why it hasn't replaced Javascript yet. By Divya Mohan.
Tags web-development javascript open-source app-development
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DevOps for Node.js engineers: Building and publishing JavaScript application artifacts
Posted on January 21, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
An artifact is a single portable file that allows us to deploy our application. It usally is an archive of the project with its dependencies (or not) but could also be a executable binary file. By Florian Goto.
Tags nodejs javascript web-development app-development
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Privacy fines: GDPR sanctions in 2021 exceeded $1 billion
Posted on January 20, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Privacy regulators in Europe last year imposed known fines totaling more than 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, bolstered in part by two record-breaking sanctions, according to the law firm DLA Piper. But sanctions approach varies widely across 31 countries complying with privacy law. By Mathew J. Schwartz.
Tags infosec cio management web-development browsers miscellaneous analytics
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GraphQL as a migration strategy for REST APIs
Posted on January 13, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Traditional API architectures like SOAP and REST have been powering the web for a long time. But over the past five years, a change towards a more flexible and frontend-driven approach to API protocols has started, using GraphQL. But moving from a traditional API architecture like REST towards GraphQL can be challenging. Not only does your team need to adapt to GraphQL, but it also means you could be losing your investment in your current API architecture. By Mark Smallcombe.
Tags apis how-to restful devops web-development open-source