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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...

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?...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

If you have made it to Part 1 and Part 2 of this tutorial, you deserve some accolades. And If you have not, you need to check 1 and 2 out. Let’s take a moment to reflect on what we...

A few days ago, I came across a link to a post by Thomas Oppong where he exposes techniques he employs to read an entire book in a single day. I jumped at it like a hungry lion to uncover...

In part 1 of this tutorial, we built APIs for a simple todo application and now we are here to put the front end together with VueJS. Dont worry if you are new to VueJs. I wrote VueJs: The basics...

In this tutorial, we will build the famous todo application with Node.Js using the ExpressJs framework and MongoDB. Did I forget to tell you? The app will be API centric and full-stack :). In a nutshell, if you want to...

Design patterns itself, are repeatable solutions to commonly occurring problems in software design, one of which is observer pattern and usually applicable to an abstraction with two aspects such that a change in one object requires a change in one...