Hashnode·4yBackend Development Is Not Hard
Backend development is difficult, boring, and very mathematical. We are going to create our own web server using "express" Express is a Node.js web application framework that makes making web applications easier. The goal of this article is to make backend development less intimidating for folks thinking to start learning backend.
freeCodeCamp·4yHow to Write Good API Documentation
API documentation is a written guide stating the functions of the API, how to integrate it into your program, and use cases for the API. It should contain some technical terms, but should still be readable and easy to understand. The goal is for everyone to work together to produce documentation that fully explains the API and guides users without confusion.
Pointer·4yThe Guide to Modern Data Architecture
This is an updated version of a post we originally published in 2020. We argue that core data processing systems have remained relatively stable over the past year, while supporting tools and applications have proliferated rapidly. We explore the hypothesis that platforms are beginning to emerge in the data ecosystem, and that this helps explain the particular patterns we’re seeing.
LogRocket·4yThe best TypeScript ORMs
object-relational mappers (ORMs) have been a controversial subject amongst many developers. In some cases, poorly-written ORMs may lead to performance bottlenecks when compared with raw queries. In other cases, ORMs can come in handy when you need quick and easy access to database methods.
Supabase·4ySupabase Realtime, with Multiplayer Features
Today is Supabase Realtime Day, where we announce and demo the next version of Realtime. The next and third major version introduces multi-tenancy to listen to many databases. This new version introduces a distributed cluster of nodes, which introduces better resource utilization, fault-tolerance, and lower latencies.
Hacker News·4yA database for 2022
We used to store our database in a single JSON file on disk, and then moved to etcd. Time for another change! We’re going to put everything in asingle file on disks again. We need something easier to dive into and get back out of quickly, a database similar to common development systems.
Open Source Way·4yMonitor your databases with this open source tool
Percona Monitoring and Measurement (PMM) is an open source solution for all three databases. The documentation is well written, detailed, and handy. The software itself is easy to obtain and install. PMM is only monitoring the underlying system and the database it uses for gathering statistics.
Hacker News·4yYDB — an open-source Distributed SQL Database
Using YDB as a database allowed Market Cart to withstand a hundredfold increase in the load on the Cart, while observing strict guarantees for response times. The migration was completed by just one developer in one month. The Cart is one of the key components of any marketplace or online store.
Hashnode·4y#9 System Design: Sharding
Sharding and partitioning are both about breaking up a large data set into smaller subsets. The difference is that sharding implies the data is spread across multiple computers while partitioning does not. A few common sharding techniques are:Geo-based sharding: Data is partitioned based on the user’s location, such as the continent of origin, or a similarly large area (e.g. “East US”, “West US’).
LogRocket·4yHow to use a proxy in Next.js
A proxy, or proxy server, acts as a relay between the website you are visiting and your device. This can provide a huge benefit for security, if you consider you do not have to reveal your real identity. A proxy server can be used in bypassing blocked websites.
Section·4yBuilding a Swipe Application Using the MongoDB Cloud and React.js
In this tutorial, we will build a full-stack swipe application with React, Express.js and Mongo. Depending on the direction of the swipe, different events are triggered in the backend. By the end, you will be able to connect your local MongoDb to a cloud instance and build a swipe application using React.
DZone·4yWhat Is Sharding?
Sharding is a technique for splitting data into smaller parts known as shards. Sharding can be viewed as a very specific type of partitioning, namely — horizontal partitioning. The biggest pros of sharding are that it can isolate contention to a single level of the system and decrease the amount of distributed operations. Despite its significance, sharding also has some cons, and there are certain problems you may encounter if you use it.
Baeldung·4yMultiple Dockerfiles in One Project
Docker is a handy tool for containerization. It's so useful that sometimes, we want to have more than one Dockerfile in the project. Unfortunately, this goes against the straightforward convention of naming all Dockerfiles just “Dockerfile” In this tutorial, we'll look at working around it and maintaining a clean project structure.
