“This is the first in a series of posts for PHP developers. The series will explain how to use serverless technologies with PHP. It covers the available tools, frameworks and strategies to build serverless applications, and why now is the right time to start.”
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“Writing tests is an investment, and like any other investment, it has to be evaluated in terms of its return and risks (e.g.: opportunity costs) it incurs in. The “not too many” keys in on that.”
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“A while back, I wrote about using Netlify and SpeedCurve to A/B test performance changes. The one I specifically mentioned was testing out Instant.Page on my site.”
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“Whether you’re developing a web application with native-ish UI, or just a simple modal popup overlay that covers the viewport, when it comes to making things work on iDevices in Mobile Safari, you’re in for a decent amount of pain and suffering.”
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“It is one of those days. You typed in twitter.com in your browser and you saw a new tweet from someone on how to use React Hooks. But, for some reason, your company or a team hasn’t switched to using Hooks. Or, maybe you are using them, but not in a new “trendy” way. Perhaps you are using Vue.”
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“Bounce, complaint, and delivery notifications are published to Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format.”
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“Generally speaking, I would say everybody loves the destructuring assignment, and for good reasons. Next, I list some of the amazing things one can achieve with destructuring in JavaScript.”
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“While this tutorial has content that we believe is of great benefit to our community, we have not yet tested or edited it to ensure you have an error-free learning experience.”
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“Recently, I’ve been working on a music app that needs to get a musical sequence (like a melody) from the server to the client. To do this, we use a format called ABC. (You can read about how ABC music notation works here.”
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“I expect I’ll annoy everyone with this post: the anti-JavaScript crusaders, justly aghast at how much of the stuff we slather onto modern websites; the people arguing the web is a broken platform for interactive applications anyway and we should start over; React users; the old guard with their arti”
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“The emerging norm for web development is to build a React single-page application, with server rendering. The two key elements of this architecture are something like: This idea has really swept the internet.”
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“Memory leaks are something every developer has to eventually face. They are common in most languages, even if the language automatically manages memory for you. Memory leaks can result in problems such as application slowdowns, crashes, high latency, and so on.”
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“I’ve come across people who do not think that CSS is related to internationalisation at all, but if you think about it, internationalisation is more than translating the content on your site into multiple languages and calling it a day.”
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“These design patterns are useful for building reliable, scalable, secure applications in the cloud. Each pattern describes the problem that the pattern addresses, considerations for applying the pattern, and an example based on Microsoft Azure.”
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“Incrementally migrate a legacy system by gradually replacing specific pieces of functionality with new applications and services.”
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I was cloning a remote repo to set up a local install and got a suboptimal pack - out of memory notice quickly followed by the fatal failure of the clone. Man the ramparts! To the google! This was helpful: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4829883/9661226 By default pack.windowMemory and pack.packSizeLimit are set to 0 (which means unlimited). Apparently, and … Continued
“warning: suboptimal pack – out of memory Compressing objects: 100% (10955/10955), done. fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 827101023 bytes) error: failed to run repack How would I go about fixing this?”
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“Learn how to measure memory usage of your web page in production to detect regressions. Browsers manage the memory of web pages automatically. Whenever a web page creates an object, the browser allocates a chunk of memory “under the hood” to store the object.”
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“JavaScript language was initially invented for simple form manipulation, with no built-in features like module or namespace. In years, tons of terms, patterns, libraries, syntax, and tools are invented to modularize JavaScript.”
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