“UNIX is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity”
An interesting case study from GitHub showing how partitioning a relational database can unlock the next level of scalability. A very interesting read if you want to understand better how relational database work and learn more about system scalability.
List of functions which you can use to replace moment.js and an awesome ESLint Plugin that will help you to refactor the parts of your code using moment.js. Check out this repository if you want to get rid of moment.js.
Learn how Node.js garbage collection and memory management works in practice. Code-level explanation and garbage collection examples inside.
If you ever tried to have a look at Twitter's HTML code you might have noticed that it's full of DIVs and it looks rather ugly. In this article, Giuseppe goes into great detail explaining why that is the case and illustrates how React Native for web works.
An interesting deep dive on what it takes to build accessible color palettes and an introduction to Accessible Palette, an app for building color systems with consistent lightness and predictable contrast ratios across color levels.
This short article introduces Numeral, a simple and small JavaScript library that can be used to format numbers in many different ways.
Logging, on its own, is a key aspect of any application. In this article you can learn how to implement logging best practices for Node.js projects using pino as a logging library.
by Sam Ruby
Rails 5 and Ruby 2.2 bring many improvements, including new APIs and substantial performance enhancements, and the fifth edition of this award-winning classic is now updated! If you're new to Rails, you'll get step-by-step guidance. If you're an experienced developer, this book will give you the comprehensive, insider information you need for the latest version of Ruby on Rails.