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While building my backend NestJs application, I wanted to store some financial data. The first question I ran into was what schema Type should be for storing data where I want to maintain the data precision. Decimal128 came out to be the prescribed official candidate to store the financial data. Here’s my initial schema...
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...
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 () => { ...
Digital Transformation, Software development
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...
Currently, I am developing a side project wherein I wanted to use Postgres as my project database using its docker image. This blog is my brain dump of the docker basics I have learned so far, and I have attempted to break down the CLI commands I used or came across during the course of development for my own better understanding. ...
