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TLS/SSL Certificates - For The Rest Of Us
How does your browser know a website is legit? This post simplifies TLS/SSL, certificate validation, and the trust chain behind secure connections
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IP Sockets - Networking Fundamentals - Part 1
Sockets are a fundamental building block of network programming, and they provide an essential abstraction layer that enables applications to interact with the underlying network protocols.
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Typescript's New `satisfies` Operator
With the upcoming 4.9 release, Typescript will add this amazing new feature to make the types in your codebase even more reliable.
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Type Safe Retry Function In Typescript
A fully type-safe utility function to retry the function execution on failure.
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Golang Modules And Packages
A quick introduction to using modules and packages in golang.
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CSS Container Queries
CSS' new container queries will be a game changer for responsive design. Here's a quick summary of what container queries are and how they are different from CSS media queries
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Listening To Events By AWS Services
We recently needed to run some custom logic whenever one of our SQS-Lambda integration was disabled. In fact, at times there are use cases when we need to take some action when something happens in our AWS account. Here's how we use EventBridge to do just that.
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Understanding Kadane's Algorithm
Explanation and implementation of Kadane's algorithm which is one of my favorite algorithms.
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SSM Parameters For A Better CloudFormation Experience
How we use SSM Parameter Store for managing our AWS resources created by CloudFormation.
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Re-visiting React Hooks - useEffect
A little late but writing my thoughts on why React Hooks are great and especially the useEffect Hook.
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Write Better CloudFormation Templates
Some good practices that should be followed while working with CloudFormation. These practices have helped us to write better CloudFormation templates and deploy more often with extra confidence.
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AWS Elastic Container Service - An Overview
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service. A lot of enterprise software companies use ECS to run their most sensitive and mission critical applications because of its security, reliability, and scalability.
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Composability - Writing CSS That Scales
We are so much focused on improving infrastructure of servers and applications that we miss out on talking about maintaining CSS which is one of the most important aspect of an application. In this post, I walk you through two patterns to write better CSS.
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It's 2020 and We're Still Doing Pagination The Wrong Way
REST APIs are everywhere. API performance has never been more important than it is today yet the most common approach to building paginated APIs is somewhat misleading. In this post, I have shared my thoughts on building paginated REST APIs.
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React Fiber Architecture - An Overview
In this post I'll talk about the internal architecture of React also called the React Fiber.
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Node Design Patterns - Reactor Pattern
In this blog we'll take a look at a pattern which is used all over the node core.
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Retry Design Pattern with Javascript Promises
We can use promises and sprinkle some recursion on top of it to create auto retry function pattern.
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Deep Dive - How Does SSH Really Work?
SSH makes accessing remote servers super easy and secure. But how it does that is the real interesting part.
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Text Encodings - What Every Software Engineer Should Know
The bare minimum of Text Encodings and Schemes without going too much into details.
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What are Generator Functions, Anyway?
Generators are super cool and super helpful in some cases. But How?.
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XOR - A Powerful Lodash Method
Get toggle functionality out of the box with lodash's xor method.
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MongoDB - Update And Query Operators for Arrays
Querying and updating arrays in mongoDb can be tricky. mongoDB has a rich set of very useful array operators. Since arrays play an important role when designing the database schema, in this post I will explain how to and when to use array operators in mongoDB with examples.
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Managing your Command Line Like a Boss 😎
A handful of gotchas that I've learned over the years working with command shells 🐚 on a regular basis.
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ES10 Flatmap for Mapping and Filtering
That's one ES10 feature which I think I will use frequently moving on.
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Gatsby Internals for Developers
Exploring Gatsby's powerful features with little to no documentation on web.
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Javascript Promises are Eager and Not Lazy
A nice little gotcha related to how promises work in Javascript.
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Hello World
Setting up a blog with static pages was never this easy. Thanks to Gatsby for making it super easy and fun.
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