Tag: Web development
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How to make WordPress page cache plugins fly with NGINX
Posted on December 30, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Ashley Rich posted an article about improving WordPress performance uisng NGINX caching. There are a ton of WordPress page caching plugins available, but limiting yourself to cache plugins alone means leaving significant performance improvements on the table.
Tags nginx web-development php programming
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Load balancing with HAProxy, Nginx and Keepalived in Linux
Posted on December 30, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Tutorial by Rishi Raj Gautam on linuxhandbook.com focusing on load balancers. Having a proper set up of load balancer allows your web server to handle high traffic smoothly instead of crashing down. In this tutorial, he explains how to setup a load balancer with high availability.
Tags nginx web-development cloud software-architecture
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Yes, cross-functional teams -- but real ones!
Posted on December 19, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
An article by Jutta Eckstein and John Buck on hot topic of cross-functional teams. If you start with Agile, one of the first things you typically do is come up with a team. And yes of course, the team will be cross-functional. But what's actually meant by cross-functionality?
Tags devops agile web-development teams
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Microservice architecture at Medium
Posted on December 16, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Xiao Ma wrote an article about their experience with microservices at Medium. They have built a couple of satellite services, but haven't created a strategy to adopt the microservice architecture systematically.
Tags microservices ux software web-development devops programming
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UI in microservices world -- micro frontends pattern and web components
Posted on December 7, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Interesting article by Altkom software & consulting on topic of microservices. The topic of microservices in IT world is still alive. Like every novelty -- it makes lots of noise and causes lots of controversies.
Tags microservices ux software web-development devops
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5 ways to style React components in 2019
Posted on December 2, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
An article by Jonathan Saring about styling of building blocks of user interfaces in React in 2019. As visual elements, styling them is a big part of how application actually meets our users, and composes the way our brand and product looks and feels.
Tags react javascript web-development programming
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The power of web components
Posted on November 25, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Post by Potch html5 developer and web platform advocate from Mozilla about re-usable code. He writes about handful of web standards. Each standard has some independent utility, but when used together, they enable something that was previously impossible to do natively. The capability to create user-defined HTML elements that can go in all the same places as traditional HTML.
Tags web-development css frontend programming
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The McKinsey report on design
Posted on November 24, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Blog post by Emily Esposito for InVision in which she asked: how can you confidently prove the business value of good design?. McKinsey & Company was trying to change that with their October 2018 report highlighting "the most extensive and rigorous research undertaken anywhere to study the design actions that leaders can make to unlock business value."
Tags web-development css frontend ux browsers
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How to use SSL/TLS with Node.js
Posted on November 14, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Detailed article by Almir Bijedic and Florian Rappl about setting up Node.js with SSL/TLS. Let's Encrypt works beautifully, and having an SSL-secured site is easier than ever.
Tags infosec nodejs web-development performance
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The three types of performance testing
Posted on October 31, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Harry from csswizardy.com shared this post about performance testing and where it sits within software development life cycle. Often performance testing ownership is not clear and this is a common reason why performance gets overlooked.
Tags tdd programming cicd web-development software performance
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Automate build, test and deploy of a static Jekyll site
Posted on October 30, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Blog post by German engineer Lars Lühr in which he focuses on CICD for Jekyll. Jekyll is a static web site generator written in Ruby. In this post he wants to provide a complete tutorial on how to automatically build, test, integrate and deploy a Jekyll site to a FTP server.
Tags devops programming cicd web-development
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Why did we choose Elixir for backend development of MoodleNet?
Posted on October 27, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length short
Alex Castaño short technical post on their decision to use Elixir in production for their web site. MoodleNet empowers communities of educators to share and learn from each other to improve the quality of education.
Tags elixir erlang web-development