Part 1: The Problem Any growing tech project, is usually accompanied by an ever growing number of micro services, and with it a growing number of problems. They each have their own database layers that they connect to (Redis, Mongo, Mysql etc.). With different micro-services connecting to different db versions. When a new developer joins the team, he/she wastes a lot of time installing all the dependencies, and hates it.

This post is about how I ended up being a web developer despite pursuing Civil Engineering at IIT Delhi. How I learned development and developed a lot of projects at scale. What are the key takeaways for coders who want to learn the art of web development? TLDR; Action Bias…

Get the basics right early so your project’s styles can scale — CSS specificity is an interesting topic. As the project gets bigger, the number of CSS rules in our CSS files get larger — and things start behaving in an undesired manner. This leads to many of us using the !important condition with different elements. To understand specificity, let’s revise some…

We all love ES6 syntax, and we have been using it in our front-end applications build on react and other frameworks. It would be nice to be able to use ES6 syntax for our backend nodejs application. It is very easy to set up and pretty straightforward. We’ll use an…

Part 1: Mathematics Let’s start with two simple mathematical functions. You need to assume the following works. Encrypt and Decrypt. They look like the following. EncryptedString = Encrypt(String, EncryptKey) String = Decrypt(EncryptedString, DecryptKey) Encrypt function takes in a string and a encrypt key and return an encrypted string as output. Decrypt functions takes…

When we collaborate on a project, it’s better (almost every time) to use some common coding style so other developers can read your code with ease (and so they don’t come looking for you). But how do you make sure everyone knows the common coding style? …

Part 1 Introduction What is Single Sign On ? It is an authentication mechanism by which one may use one central authentication system to login into multiple apps, like using one google account to login into “gmail”, “play store”, “google maps” etc. When and Why to use SSO? When you have multiple apps…

After building a lot of REST APIs in the last 6 years, I have finally converged on one single signature for all my responses. There are 6 keys that I send in every response. Data, Status Message and Status Code These three keys are simple and straightforward. Data contains any data that you want to send…