In this post, we will understand what closures are, and go through a few examples to solidify our understanding of them.

Monitoring an application’s health is one of the most important tasks when running production grade services. The standard way to do this…

Tips and tricks on how to use React with Typescript

How to combine and merge two or more React contexts

We’ve all been there: you just learnt something cool, or got around a really tricky problem in your code, and now you want to share this…

If you’ve worked with Go for sometime, you have probably encountered the tag, when trying to encode a struct to JSON. This post will…

OAuth2 is an authentication protocol that is used to authenticate and authorize users in an application by using another service provider…

OAuth2 is an authentication protocol that is used to authenticate and authorize users in an application by using another service provider…

The factory pattern is a commonly used pattern in object oriented programming. In Go, there are many different ways in which you can use the…

How to use Go's context cancellation to make faster and more robust applications.

If you’ve worked on web application development in node, it’s likely you’ve heard of express.js . Express is one of the most popular…

This post describes how to generate an error stack trace in Go

How to implement session based authentication in your Go application

This post demonstrates how to sign up and sign in users using password authentication in Go

What is a data race? What causes it? How to fix it?

Linear regression is the process of fitting a linear equation to a set of sample data, in order to predict the output. In order to do this…

Tensorflow is a machine learning library released by Google, which is now one of the most popular machine learning libraries currently in…

Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform. It can be used for anything ranging from a distributed message broker to a platform for…

A tutorial on integrating a database into your Go web application

The many different ways to parse JSON in Go

An end to end tutorial on how to build a full stack web application in golang

Random sequences are a bunch of random numbers arranged one after the other. Something like this : 4, 6, 10, -6, -2, 1 Seems…

An introduction on channels in Go, and how to visualize them

Enums in javascript: what they are, and how and when to use them

Redux is a terribly simple library for state management, and has made working with React more manageable for everyone. However, there are a…

Google sheets provides an excellent interface for regular users to view and modify data. Wouldnt it be great if we could use this data to…

Securing a web application is hard, but it’s also extremely important. There is so much to learn, and the learning curve is so steep, that…

Throughout my other posts on web security, we looked at everything that could go wrong with our application from a technical perspective…

Cross site request forgery (CSRF or XSRF), is a type of attack where a request coming from one website is disguised so as to give the…

Irrespective of what type of website you’re making, if there is a login and authentication involved, you will definitely be dealing with…

Passwords are a nightmare. If you can offload password storage to a third party provider, you should totally do that. This is not…

CORS, or cross origin resource sharing, is one of the most misunderstood concepts of web security. Many know what it is, some know why we…

So you thought your database was completely safe? Well, for the most part, it actually is. Modern databases have lots of security features…

XSS(Cross site scripting) attacks are one one of the easiest attacks to perform, and are often the starting point for many attackers looking…

One of the things that has always irked me about docker was the size of its images. To give you an example, take a look at my current set of…

One of the more common phrases you hear anytime you talk about ReactJs is : React is not a framework, its a library or React is just the “V…

End to end testing is an often overlooked area of front-end web development. Yet, it is quintessential to making sure your application works…

NodeJs is known for its speed with respect to async tasks, but there’s still a lot of potential to make responses from your server even…

In many of the applications we build today, there is often a need to have a unique identifier for any piece of data we use in our…

This tutorial will go through a straightforward set of steps to get a responsive telegram bot up and running from scratch I spent a…

Emojis have finally become mainstream! Yet, their use is restricted to only IM chats and Facebook status updates. For some reason emojis are…

Promises are arguably one of the trickiest concepts to grasp in the javascript world, and even if you know how to use them, it’s difficult…

Is it ” ” or ” ” ? If you’re anything like me, SQL is one of those things that may look easy at first (it reads just like regular english…

Replication is a technique used my MongoDB to ensure that your data is always backed up for safe keeping, in case one of your database…

Snapchat has taken the world by storm. It started out as a platform to send short temporary photos or videos to your friends, and slowly…

Redux has taken the web development by storm, and after the success of react and flux, it has made the flux philosophy more accessible…

Javascript is a multi paradigm programming language and has object-oriented, functional, and imperative properties that make it very…

GIFs have been around for as long as I can remember, and today they’re as popular as ever. For an image format so popular, GIFs are horribly…

Asynchronous programming is one of those programming paradigms that’s extremely difficult to fully understand, until you’ve done enough of…

This post is about creating a hello world application using jspm and ES6 with ReactJs. Feeling lazy and just want to see the code? Go Here…

Initialize all our variables ‘py’ is our spawned python process, which starts the script compute_input.py (which we will write later) Define…

Now, back to the example… I want to define a route, which receives a name as one of the request parameters. I want to then search a…