Let’s talk about APIs, usually in a microservice ecosystem you are bound to call one another. It can be via GraphQL, REST or gRPC all those calls can sometime fail or induce latency in your system. In this article we are going to review some har...

If you are not familiar with Kafka then I suggest this article to get the basics. But if you’ve landed here, it’s either because you are curious 🤓 or you want to know more about KafkaJS and how to implement it with typescript. I am assuming in t...

All Typescript configuration tips that you may need. Think of it as a cheat sheet to remember which without re-reading all the documentation regarding typescript compilation will tell you some configuration settings that work for some particular ...

Welcome into the React Testing part 2! If you’ve missed out part 1, that’s because it is obnoxiously but simply named: “Static React Testing”. In the previous article we talked about the library used, the setup and some basic API offered by the te...

Memcached is an open source caching system, it provides an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of data and is particularly used to save results from database or API calls. Memcached has a multithreaded architecture, so you can scale up by a...

Debezium is an open-source project. Once deployed and started it will capture change in data within a database and advertise it through Kafka. Let’s have a look at what we can do with this new technology! Concept It uses the change data capture ...

In this article we’ll have a look at the React testing library, some of its packages and the main APIs to use in your test to simulate any situation in our App. The testing library that can be identified in your package.json as @testing-library i...

With Apollo Server, you can create an Apollo Federation for your GraphQL APIs. The pre-requisite for federation would be to have at least two different GraphQL APIs that you want to advertise under the same url. Or if you want to break down a big ...

We have talked briefly about Jest before in this blog before, but only on how to write a basic test and set it up within your project. Let’s dive a bit further with some interesting cases and advanced features that jest has to offer. If I didn’t...

In this article, I wanted to talk about clean code, but I don’t like the nearly religious symbolic meaning attached to it. There’s not one way to “clean code”, it’s more a collection of experimented rule of patterns that can help you write clear...