We have talked previously about NestJS to create a REST backend API, but its purpose is greater, and it can also be used with GraphQL. If you are new to GraphQL, check out this article for some of the basics. Installation Create a new NestJS ap...

NestJS is a framework to build server-side application with Node.js and using typescript by default. This framework more than just a web server comes with the promise to help developers build larger backend application following best practices. ...

Anaconda is a python package distributor that comes with all the most used datascience packages included in its full installation. But not all python developers are datascientists, and for the remaining which do not need all the datascience packa...

A Story about a Monolith … A Monolith is usually an enormous application with multiple functionalities within one repository. It is a good pattern to get started, because it allows faster development for a new application. Having one service in...

We talked before in this blog about federation, and its advanced possibilities. We also covered the topic of generating the typescript objects from your GraphQL files using codegen. So in this article we will be talking about both, generating type...

Kafka Streams is a layer built on top of Apache Kafka’s producers and consumers that simplifies the process of handling Kafka data. It abstracts the creation of consumers and producers. Kafka Streams uses a declarative syntax to process records, d...

Keep an eye on costs! 💰 If you are leveraging one of the major cloud providers: Microsoft’s Azure, Google Cloud or Amazon Web Service (AWS). There are several tools available within those providers that can help you manage your cloud costs. (AWS...

Let’s look at Jekyll’s collections, which are a way to group information together within the static website generator Jekyll. We’ve talked about jekyll before, so if you are new to it, check out this article or browse through the related jekyll ar...

Font Awesome Font Awesome is a popular library of icons that you can use on your websites. It provides access to high-quality vector images that are used for UI icon. Some of the most famous are the hamburger, the arrows, the sun/moon to switch ...

We talked about Jenkins once before in this blog, with some neat groovy snippets to get to know the functionalities to build your own pipeline. But in this article, I want to go about some features that might not be recommended for best practices...