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Companies often brag about encryption-at-rest? Is that really worth bragging about?

A Step-by-Step Guide for learning JSON Web Tokens, including signatures, single page web application User Authentication and Session Management.

Build a legacy data migration checklist: Experts offer advice from migration preparation to ensuring the project is successfully completed.

To say Tesla is merely interested in machine learning is an understatement.

In this SaaS case study, we'll show you how our client, IFTTT, drove 33% SEO traffic growth.

Bear Blog has a few design constraints for speed, efficiency, and stability. There are many great open-source, privacy-focussed analytics platforms out there...

Browsing through libraries is an enriching experience, but they’re too focused and lack the architectural depth that building an entire application demands. So…

Engineer Bo Ingram shares insight into how Discord shoulders its traffic and provides a platform for our users to communicate.

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

Firstyear's blog

Autocomplete search added to MDN Web Docs allows you to quickly jump to the document you're looking for by typing parts of the document title

In this blog post, I delve into the comparison of memory consumption between asynchronous and multi-threaded programming across popular languages like Rust, ...

Implementing Precision Time Protocol (PTP) at Meta allows us to synchronize the systems that drive our products and services down to nanosecond precision. PTP’s predecessor, Network Time Protocol (…

Learn how React 18's concurrent features like Transitions, Suspense, and React Server Components improve application performance.

Organizations have many choices when it comes to databases. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains how to choose between SQL and NoSQL databases.

Deep dive into debounce and throttle in React. What is debounce and throttle, how to use them in React properly, how to avoid breaking them when state and re-renders are involved.

Just like @sapphi-red said, Vite 4.3 has made amazing performance improvements over Vite 4.2

How solving barrel files led to faster cold boots and build times.

Understanding patterns and anti-patterns in React

Different shapes of hydration have various advantages and disadvantages, but are fundamentally the same. Resumability is a different kind of algorithm.

Explain complex systems with simple terms, from the authors of the best-selling system design book series. Join over 1,000,000 friendly readers. Click to read ByteByteGo Newsletter, a Substack publication.

What is an Event-Driven Architecture and Why do I need One? In this article series we cover everything you need to know to decide if and when to use Event Driven Architectures.

A complete guide to Framer Motion layout animations showcasing every concept, from the layout prop, shared layout animations and LayoutGroup, to complex drag-to-reorder interactions.

Why software fails and how you can practically address it with a six-step plan

My colleagues recently wrote a great post on the Netflix tech blog about a tough performance issue they wrestled with. They ultimately diagnosed the problem as false sharing, which is a performance…

Back of the napkin math to estimate what cloud software will cost as you're building it.

I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped up by the same handful of things. In this article, we're going to go through 9 of the most dastardly gotchas. I'll show you how to solve these common problems, so you can avoid a lot of potential frustration!

Building a concurrent web server in Rust, Go, JS, TS, .NET, and Java to compare concurrency performance