Agile, Experience Design

Code Less, Communicate More: The Advantages of Spec-First API Design

Developing robust and scalable REST APIs is a core challenge in software development. A rising methodology, the spec-first approach, also known as API-first or design-first, is gaining prominence for its effectiveness in crafting APIs that precisely meet requirements. This method revolves around the creation of a comprehensive API...

by sukhpreet.singh
Tag: Development
17-Sep-2023

Front End Development, MEAN

Why and how finally{…} block is NOT meaningless

A definition first (from the internet): try-catch-finally is used to handle runtime errors and prevent them from halting the execution of a program. The finally block triggers regardless of: what is implemented inside the try-catch block any errors encountered inside try-catch block any return statement written...

by shivang.chaturvedi
Tag: Development
25-Jan-2023

MEAN, Node.js

Top level await() without async() function in NodeJs

Here’s how async-await function typically works: function myDummyBackendCall() { return new Promise((resolve) => { setTimeout(() => { resolve({ name: "Shivang", id: "asmdhajkdhajdsh8qweuqoweuiqepoi-0q-0eueiuaisjdaKcjaisku", }); }); }); } // Used an async wrapper function to make an await call (async () => { ...

by shivang.chaturvedi
Tag: Development
24-Jan-2023

Digital Transformation, Software development

Go Pointers! Let’s talk about it…

A pointer, as name suggests, is a variable that points to a location in the memory of your system where a value is stored rather than a value itself. Basically, it is an address to the value stored in memory. The definition is simple but this concept can be a little tricky to wrap your head around. When I first developed a good...

by shivang.chaturvedi
Tag: Development
23-Jan-2023

Front End Development, Product Engineering

An Introduction to BEM – “DO Less Get More” CSS Approach

Front end development and Coding is an art. Efficiency of code increases if it is organized in a right way. Certain questions that you need to address are: a) How long it takes for you to write code? (Consider efficiency while writing the code) b) How much code you will have to re-write for similar task? (Make sure the code is...

by Poonam Baveja
Tag: Development
28-Feb-2017

AWS, DevOps

Take your pick: Build-driven Delivery or Image-driven Delivery?

In the recent past, software has seen a revolution of sorts. The emergence of Docker and the containerization paradigm has questioned the basis of some of the software delivery principles. The result? People are opting for things unheard of some two years back. What’s more, they are now using them successfully to deliver software faster...

by Ranvijay Jamwal
Tag: Development
30-Apr-2016

Technology

What makes Modi Speeches such a Cult – An Analytical Perspective

One Simple Reason “Content that Connects with Target Audience” Speaking to 20000 people, knowing that over a billion would be tuned in, is a tough act. For Mr. Modi it is a cakewalk. He seems to outdo himself time and time again. Here is some proof of evidence to back it up. In the world of marketing there is a common saying...

by Gaurav Misra
Tag: Development
01-Oct-2015

AWS

Autoscaling Environment Logs Collection using LogEntries

LogEntries Managing log data across large autoscaling environments can be a time-consuming and expensive job. Logentries has designed a scalable service that dynamically supports autoscaling environment as log volumes expand and change dynamically. By centralizing all logs across distributed instances into one secure location, we can...

by Ankit Giri
Tag: Development
24-May-2015