When designing systems, especially distributed systems, the flow of data and service requests must remain continuous. This brings us to an architectural design pattern called the Circuit Breaker. It comes…
PHP: The All Times Survivor
Whenever a major improvement happens in web technology, whenever a new framework or a language is introduced in the web development market, PHP's death is declared immediately. I have been…
React vs. Angular: Choosing the Right Framework in 2024
"Angular or React?" has been one of the most important questions in software development for the last decade. As a developer who had worked in full-stack fashion for a long…
Rust: A Modern Time Challenger to C++
For developers of my generation, C++ was the go-to language. It was everywhere, especially when you needed to write code that is fast, efficient and object oriented. C++ gave us…
Go Language: A Modern Take on System Programming
Today, I want to talk about a new generation language which gains ground among developers. Go also popularly known as Golang, an open-source programming language created at Google by Robert…
On Azure Functions and Serverless
There's no shortage of tools and technologies to make developers' lives easier In the world of cloud computing, and one such offering comes from Microsoft which is Azure Functions. Here,…
SOLID Principles: The Basics of Good Software Design
Even though my purpose is publishing ever green content in this blog, it is not easy to write about such a broader topic. Due to my recent interview process, I…
NextJS: Frontend Sneaking into Backend
As web-based applications become more sophisticated, frontend and backend lines gets blur. One such example of this change is NextJS. NextJS is a framework that enables React applications to render…
The Cheapest Way to Host a Static Website on AWS (S3 + CloudFront + Route 53 + HTTPS)
When you want to publish a simple static site lets say a blog, portfolio, documentation page or landing page, you often don’t need a full server. What you do need…