Why the Usage of Instrumentation Within Monitoring Tools Should be Implemented in Your Next Web Project
Back-EndWhen designing a web application, a strategy that has often been used is to use a monitoring tool such as Grafana or Datadog. There...
Which .NET Design Pattern is Best For Your Next Project
Back-End DesignThere are several design patterns used these days in the .NET ecosystem. What are they? What are the benefits and drawbacks of each pattern?...
Top Five Things I Learned at SRECon22 Americas
Back-End Leveling UpAs a full-stack web developer, I attended SRECon to expand my thinking about the reliability and observability of the services I develop. Here are...
Exploring Go v1.18’s Generics
Back-EndGenerics in Go are nearly here! Here's what that means for you and some real use cases.
Where is Ruby Headed in 2021?
Back-End ConferencesWhere is the Ruby language headed? At RubyConf 2021, the presentations on the language focused on type checks and performance—where performance can be subdivided...
Live Ruby Type Checking with TypeProf-IDE
Back-End ConferencesAt RubyConf 2021, TypeProf-IDE was announced. It's a Visual Studio Code integration for Ruby’s TypeProf tool to allow real-time type analysis and developer feedback....
Embracing Cloud Native
Back-End Leveling UpCloud infrastructure has pushed software towards abstracting the developer away from the operating hardware, making global networks and copious amounts of computing power available...
Using the httptest package in Golang
Back-EndTesting at the edge Testing your code is a great practice, and can give confidence to the developers shipping it to production. Unit and...
Using Dockertest With Golang
Back-End Digital Product DevelopmentWhy should Dockertest be part of your next Golang web project? When designing a web application, a strategy that has often been used when...
The Five Steps of API-First Design
Back-End Digital Product Development Front-EndAnd why API-First Design should be a part of your next web service project Some of the greatest inventions have occurred by accident, but...
Testing Your GraphQL Server
Back-End GraphQLGraphQL presents significant challenges for the backend developer. It is on the server that most of the complexities of using this exciting technology are...
GraphQL versus REST
Back-End GraphQLGraphQL and REST paradigms can both be used to create scalable and useful APIs, but GraphQL has some alternative approaches that make a big...
