The word “queue” is used everywhere. It has all kinds of meanings in the real world and even in the world of software development.

Last night, a friend pulled me aside and whispered, “Why do you hate queues so much?” I stared at him for a while and blurted, “Why...

In the 19th century, Le Corbusier, a French architect, made public a visualization that changed how we live.

This plan opened the door to modern urban planning today. Around 1930, public health became a significant concern; the poor working conditions of municipal workers in congested and polluted cities.

Le...

Today, I want to talk about one of my favorite plugins for prototyping Javascript in visual studio code: Quokka.js.

Quokka.js is a rapid prototyping playground in your editor, with access to your project files and provides instant inline reporting.

It runs your code as you type and display...

Cloud computing is constantly evolving, from bare-metal to container technologies. The latest trend in this process is the serverless (Function as a Service, or FaaS) computing model. According to Techbeacon, serverless has an annual growth rate of 75%, making it the fastest growing cloud service model. So, serverless architecture...

This post is to show you how to run and build a serverless application on Google Cloud Platform that integrates with Google APIs. What we’ll cover in this post includes:

• Creating & deploying a serverless application using the serverless framework.
• Integrating your application with Google...

For any given task, there are many tools you can use. But few are the right tools.

If you’re in IT, you’ve probably heard the saying “Use the right tool for the job.” In architects’ meetings, this sentence echoes from one corner to the other. In...

Editorial note: I originally wrote this post on Scalyr’s blog. You can check out the original here, at their site.

Logging is an important aspect of software development. In fact, in my opinion, it’s just as important as testing. Why?

Logs become the only source of truth...

Docker has changed the way we build, package, and deploy applications. But this concept of packaging apps in containers isn’t new—it was in existence long before Docker came.

Editorial note: I originally wrote this post on Stackify’s blog. You can check out the original here, at their site.

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AWS Lambda is a service that confuses many people. For that reason, you may be wondering just how it works and how you’d use it to build a highly scalable event-driven application. And as someone who’s presumably no stranger to the internet, you must have seen the terms serverless,...

Editorial note: I originally wrote this post on ACloud Guru’s blog. You can check out the original here, at their site.

The innovation in the tech industry paved a new way for infrastructures as a service — bringing a new paradigm shift from infrastructure and hardware ownership to a...

A few days ago, I wanted to update millions of records in a MySQL database using Doctrine 2. I did a couple of searches and landed on this doctrine documentation. It suggests combining query iteration with batching strategy to achieve this.

For instance:

Today, we will be exploring destructuring assignment — one of the ES6 cool features. It provides a clean way of extracting items of an array or object or anything iterable.

#1 Destructuring basics

There are 2 sides to destructuring in ES6: the source and the template. The ‘source’ is the object...

With S3 pre-signed URLs, you can create short-lived URLs to upload objects to AWS S3. More often than not business requirements demand that objects are encrypted and sometimes with keys provided by the customer.

SSE-C option allows you to specify your own encryption keys, AWS automatically handles encryption and decryption...

If you are just starting to learn docker, one of the common questions that come to mind is what docker is and why one would need it. In this post, I provide basic answers to some of these questions and finally walk you through...

Lumen is one of the fastest PHP frameworks built from Laravel components and made especially for building APIs or web services. It’s faster and can handle more request per second than Laravel itself.

This is because Lumen is stripped down to bare minimum thus sacrificing flexibility for speed. By default,...