There are a large number of technologies and concepts that can dramatically improve software quality, while simultaneously reducing its development time, cost, and effort. The question, though, is which combination is the right one for both your organization and your project? Like so many topics, the answer to this one is, “It depends.” So today, I’m going to help whittle ...

Vue.js fascinates me. The author is Evan You, a former Angular developer. Somehow he managed to take the best of the two worlds — Angular and React — and build a simple, easy to learn, and extremely productive framework. To show you the benefits of using Vue.js, I thought I’d make something useful from the ground up. I decided to ...

GraphQL came out of Facebook a number of years ago as a way to solve a few different issues that typical RESTful APIs are prone to. One of those was the issue of under- or over-fetching data. Under-fetching is when the client has to make multiple roundtrips to the server just to satisfy the data needs they have. For example, ...

In this tutorial we would explore the WebRTC Framework part of the HTML5 specification. RTC stands for Real-Time Communication since it enables peer to peer communication without any plugins or any other installs. WebRTC also removes the need for an intermediary server for two browsers to communicate and exchange data, audio or video among them. The APIs are still a ...

For many Docker enthusiasts, the docker run command is a familiar one. It’s often the first Docker command we learn. The docker run command is the command used to launch Docker containers. As such, it’s familiar to anyone starting or running Docker containers on a daily basis. In this article, we will get back to the basics and explore a ...

Today we will be talking about some built-in functions in Python. Why are they important to know? Well, if you do import a lot of heavy libraries for simple tasks, that will be very inefficient. A good example of that is importing NumPy just to calculate the sum of elements in a row! So basically, built-in functions don’t need to ...

Discover faster, more efficient performance monitoring with an enterprise APM product learning from your apps. Take the AppDynamics APM Guided Tour! In a digital world that moves as fast as ours, programmers are applying new, creative ways of thinking to the software development process in a non-stop push for ever-faster turnaround times. In DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI) is increasingly the ...

This is the second of a three-part series on working with DynamoDB. The first article covered the basics of DynamoDB, such as creating tables, working with items along with batch operations, and conditional writes. This post will focus on different ways you can query a table in DynamoDB and, more important, when to take advantage of which operation efficiently, including ...

We will look at Breadcrumb navigation using Bootstrap in this article. Breadcrumb navigation is essentially a display of the hierarchical path taken by the user to reach the current page in the site. It also gives the users the ability to jump back one or more levels to reach back the page they navigated through. In essence it is a ...