My little self stood in front of my computer some years ago, churning out code that today would make me scream like a baby deprived of food. The motivated me had made some changes to a 1,000-line app the previous night, and now the code just wouldn’t run. If there...

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: