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A Guide to Event-Driven Architecture in Elixir

In this post, we will explore how event-driven architecture can make your app more responsive for users and decouple your modules for a better developer experience. We will also look at several methods of implementing event-driven architecture with Elixir. Elixir is particularly good for this because of the advanced and concise message-passing APIs that it offers and BEAM's outstanding support for concurrency. But first: what is event-driven architecture, exactly?

How to run `shell` and more using Node.js

Sometimes an application needs more than Node.js to develop and bootstrap itself. Maybe the project needs some automation from a different programming language than JavaScript; even in that scenario, Node.js can run those required tasks; with that, your whole application could be easier to maintain and won’t have a lot of technologies mixed in the same project.

How to Customize Your Profile View Experience in Moesif

At Moesif, we’ve put a lot of work into improving viewing details and trends for specific users and companies. This includes our recent addition of adding profile dashboards to add individual and reusable charts to user and company profiles Now, we’ve added even further functionality by allowing users to customize what each individual user and companies profile view looks like.

Performance optimization techniques used in Asgardeo - Part 02

This is the second installment of the series. As a result, if you haven't yet completed Part 01 of the series, it is highly urged that you do so first. According to the official website, Asgardeo is an IDaaS that allows developers to create seamless login experiences in minutes. Let's concentrate on the performance optimization approaches utilized in react and webpack in this article.

HTTP Keep-Alive - In Light

HTTP Keep-Alive is a feature of web servers that allows clients to keep connections open. It's also called "persistent connections." The idea behind HTTP Keep-Alive is to prevent the connection from timing out and closing, which would require the client to reconnect. This saves time for both users and the website’s server. HTTP/1.1 is designed to allow keep-alive connections by default, but HTTP/1.0 is not.

REST API Best Practices for Parameter and Query String Usage

Over the last ten years, APIs have grown in popularity and utilization. They've evolved into critical components of application infrastructure, and as businesses continue to use and build them, good API architecture will become increasingly important. A smart API design helps performance and the overall developer experience, whether they're public or internal. The most common APIs employ HTTP requests to access and use data and follow a RESTful architecture.