Category
Architecture
14 posts
Push notifications: a distributed system in its own right
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From template to device: how mobile push notifications actually work, their product and technical [...]
Production-ready: what an app lives after deployment
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Our job doesn't stop at the commit. The pillars of an Enterprise-Ready application in production [...]
Enforcing a hexagonal architecture with code
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Konsist, ArchUnit, eslint-plugin-boundaries: make a hexagonal architecture executable by automating [...]
The mishandled loading states that wreck your app's UX
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Flicker, endless spinners: how to guarantee consistent loading states with spin-delay, optimistic [...]
Inversion of Control (IoC): the core concept and its use cases
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A deep dive into Inversion of Control: its history, the Hollywood Principle, callbacks, framework [...]
The DataLoader pattern: solving N+1 in GraphQL
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Discover the DataLoader pattern to solve the N+1 problem in GraphQL through batching and caching [...]
Understanding the N+1 problem with GraphQL
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The N+1 problem explained in detail in the context of GraphQL: how a single initial query triggers [...]
Caching: invalidation and eviction, a cache's complexity
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Understanding a cache's complexity: invalidation via TTL and eviction with the LRU, LFU and FIFO [...]
A caching story: where does a cache's speed come from?
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How a cache speeds up your web apps: in-memory storage, data proximity (CDN), LRU/LFU algorithms [...]
A caching story: speeding up a web app, simply
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An intro to web caching: avoiding over-fetching with the HTTP Cache-Control header, private and [...]
Running containerized apps in production: graceful shutdown
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Why production containers need proper SIGTERM handling: graceful shutdown, the PID1 init problem [...]
Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) and topological sort
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Understanding DAGs: why cycles are a problem, how topological sort determines task execution order [...]
Dependency graphs: Nx, Rush, Bazel, docker-compose & CI/CD
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Why dependency graphs sit at the heart of modern tooling: monorepo task orchestration, the Affected [...]
Implementing the Incremental/Affected pattern
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Build the Incremental/Affected pattern by hand: model a project as a directed graph, hash + cache [...]