Web Performance, Security, and Scalability
I have always liked fast software. I switched away from VS Code simply because I was faster than VS Code. Coincidentally, that’s the same reason users don’t stay on websites. As Casey Muratori highlighted in his Substack, businesses sacrifice both time and money to improve the performance of their software. They realize that faster software … Read more
So here is a situation you’re in. You just built a really cool blogging app using the latest and greatest JavaScript framework. You scaffold the application using Nuxt.js, build the components using Vue.js and use Vuex for state management. On the back-end side, you create an API using Node.js, FeathersJS and Express. Your back-end serves … Read more
HyperText Transfer Protocol is one of the fundamentals of the internet. Every web developer, even front-end developers should at least have a basic understanding of what HTTP is. It is the mechanism which enabled computers talk to each other over the internet. It defines the format in which messages are passed on the internet. It … Read more
Session sharing was my first task working on https://philanthropyu.org. It was also the first task assigned to me on a real team at Arbisoft. The 2 systems that I had to integrate were: Open edX – A learning management system primarily built using Python and Django NodeBB – A forum software built using Node.js and … Read more
This is one of my favorites. The Problem Finding an efficient way to test over 150+ functions. This happened while I was working on an enhancement of the Open edX platform. Currently, Open edX uses a custom event tracking library for tracking user generated events. These events are simple JSON objects that are fed into … Read more
“The World’s Most Misunderstood Programming Language” – Douglas Crockford That was the sentence that got me into JavaScript. I still believe that Crockford’s introduction to JavaScript is the most accurate definition of the language. It was about my 3rd year in university that I decided I wanted to learn a programming language that would let … Read more
I remember when I first read this sentence: “Our models, on the other hand, will encompass all computers that do exist, will exist and that can ever be dreamed of” It was during a lecture on the Theory of Automata, a mandatory course during my CS degree. I never paid too much attention to that … Read more
In my previous post, I discussed how to debug python applications using the built-in python debugger, pdb. In this post I discuss alternatives to pdb that, in my opinion, provide a better interface to debugging. pdb is limited in the sense that it can only be operated from the shell, and I repeatedly have to … Read more
Click here for the sequel of this post Most of my work at Arbisoft involves developing and debugging custom features for Open edX based systems. Most of my colleagues here prefer to use PyCharm as their default IDE and editor. PyCharm is among the best Python development tools out there, however, I prefer to use Sublime … Read more
For a long time I had put off learning about promises in JavaScript. I had heard that they were an alternative to callbacks i.e. they were used to manage asynchronous function calls in JavaScript. The first Node.js based app that I worked on was NodeBB and since it used callbacks I didn’t think that I … Read more