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Let’s build a non-trivial app with React and then refactor it to use Redux! Much of the advice you get regarding the addition of Redux to your React projects is to only do so once they reach a certain size, because of the extra complexity Redux adds. That’s certainly fair. But it will leave Read More …
A few years back, I was consulting for a client who had a Node-based instant messaging feature which had worked pretty well at first. But the number of users grew, and then it didn’t. Even though they had a number of load-balanced server instances running, they found that the Redis database they were using Read More …
SQL. It’s so last century, amirite? Although it was created around ten years earlier, Structured Query Language (SQL) really began to catch hold in the commercial world during the mid-eighties, and brought with it some great improvements over what had come before. Probably the most important feature was transactionality, which enabled concurrency and Read More …
Don’t Worry, You Can Do This The idea of migrating your domains from one registrar to another can be an intimidating one, especially if you have a lot of them. Having personally worked at one of the world’s largest registrars some years ago, and specifically on the DNS provisioning and domain transfer parts, Read More …
Entities are the crown jewels of any application. All of those thousands of lines of client and server code have but one purpose: To persist, present, and allow the user to manipulate instances of domain model entities. Give your entities the respect they deserve. Once you’ve worked out what they are for your domain, building and Read More …