Learn how to use counter cache in your rails app, parent-child associations, counter cache best practice. Read more
Introduction Elixir describes itself as "a dynamic, functional programming language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications." Although it's a relative newcomer, Elixir is built on top of the functional programming language Erlang. Elixir is capable of using any Erlang library, and is ideal for use cases such as web ... Read more
Go Fast: Getting Started with Sanic for Python Tired of waiting for sluggish HTTP requests to complete before your backend code can proceed with other things? Sanic is an asynchronous web framework in Python, that is built to be fast. In a world where Flask and Django are the most ... Read more
“All code and no logging makes John a black box error-prone system.” Logging is a key aspect of monitoring, troubleshooting and debugging your code. Not only does it make your project’s underlying execution more transparent and intelligible, but also more accessible in it’s approach. In a company or a community ... Read more
When it comes to web development, middleware is often the key to ensuring everything connects up - even if some of the pieces don’t always matchup. HTTP Middleware is a mechanism used to conveniently filter HTTP requests coming into your web application. When it comes to PHP, frameworks often help ... Read more
The 15 Best Podcasts for Engineers If you’ve been on the hunt for a new developer podcast, then you understand just how difficult and fruitless that hunt can be. You can spend hours online sifting through coding podcasts, programming podcasts, and devops podcasts just to realize one simple thing: none ... Read more
There's no type of monitoring tool that can get to the heart of a performance problem faster than Application Performance Management (APM). If you're making this decision, use this guide to choose between New Relic and Scout. Read more
If you are using Ruby on Rails, caching might be one of the best tools on your belt to build a better application. The idea behind caching in Rails is to serve thousands of concurrent users on a single server with a single database attached. Let’s take a look at some of the benefits caching can provide. Read more
This article is a continuation of Part I (A comprehensive guide to migrating from Python 2(Legacy Python) to Python 3) which details the changes, improvements in Python 3 and why they are important. This rest of the article details automated tools, strategies and role of testing in the migration from ... Read more
Flask is Python’s most popular web application framework. Learn how you can use Flask to establish a strong foundation for a full stack application. Read more