Let’s revisit some React basics to gain a better context for what I’m about to demonstrate in this article. The React hooks API provides a way to manage the state of a function component by memoizing variables, which can later be reloaded from a cache for any consecutive render calls…

I’m working on a scalable SaaS platform that utilizes a Kubernetes cluster to deploy and dispose applications on a regular basis. One of the needs that came up was being able to accurately monitor the usage of resources by users, so they can be charged accordingly by the end of…

An introduction to TCP and UDP in Node.js, and a Quic mention of HTTP/3 — Today, I would like to discuss the underlying protocol of HTTP. We will do so by looking at the message exchange between a client and a server, and by stripping-out the HTTP abstraction layer. This article will involve a lot of experimenting with code, which can be a great way…

An overview for the many layers that structure the Docker engine — People love containers nowadays, they just make deployments so much easier. I’ll admit, I’ve also been using them quite a bit recently — from running an application locally, to CI/CD and scaling. To be honest, I’ve always treated containers like a black-box and never put too much thought into them…

Understanding the abstraction behind nodes and pods — I’m sure you heard about it, but if you never used it, or you’re only starting, Kubernetes can be extremely robust and confusing. …

Featuring: PostgreSQL, Mapbox, Firebase, Twilio, & Cloudinary — TL;DR: Get it 👉 here 👈 There’s a spicy story behind this amazing app and why I’ve decided to release it to the public. However, I think it would be more appropriate to tell about its tail in another post and keep this one as technical as possible. …

I think I’ve written dozen CLI tools throughout my career. I know that many people use Commander to do so (a popular library; if it doesn’t ring the bell, just leave it); I understand why. It does have a very structured way of work and you don’t need to understand…

I was working the other day on an .obj file parser and wanted to test it. An .obj file just contains a collection of vertecies and faces, that together compose a 3D object. Anyways I wanted to test it by rendering the final result. I thought that it would be…

CSS is an easy and declarative tool to implement styling and quick. For the most part, you can make an app look great without touching a single line of code. Awesome! But it does raise a few limitations with animations, however. Without having the ability to obtain a reference to…