Lab Notes

Design choices for building Location Based Services / Part I ↗

Location-based services (LBS) have become an inherent part of our daily lives. From shopping orders, booking taxis, and finding nearby stores to...

Unique IDs… Which is the best? ↗

When thinking of generating unique IDs, the very first approach that comes to mind is using auto-incrementing integer IDs in traditional databases....

How Consistent Hashing Scales Distributed Systems ↗

Scaling is the process of increasing the system’s capacity to handle growing amount work. It's about designing your application or infrastructure so...

Deciphering CAP: The Fundamental Trade-off in Distributed Systems ↗

CAP Theorem is measure that can help you assess the tradeoffs when designing distributed systems. The trade-off is between Consistency, Availability...

Does your code have debt? ↗

Good code is an asset, while Bad code is a liability. The liability also has a technical name as Tech/Code Debt. Code debt arises when the delivered...

Using multiple Github accounts with SSH ↗

When I started using Github, I used Github Desktop for sometime because that felt easy. Down the line, I learnt using git via CLI. And, I haven't...

How code execution works in Javascript? ↗

Javascript is asynchronous, that simply means that it does not wait. Well, it does but not very often. And, unless you ask it to await. Javascript is...

Why you should avoid using CMS for your projects? ↗

I will start with Strapi, and If you do not know it already. Strapi is a headless CMS, written on top of Nodejs. So, you can use it to create APIs,...

Understanding the Client-Server model of application development ↗

For someone starting out their web development journey, he must first understand how web apps work. The Client-Server model act as the core of every...