Infrastructure

Whenever you’re building a data system, there’s a million things to consider. Gone are the days of just shoving everything into MongoDB and calling it “web scale.” In this newsletter, we’ll be going over the considerations you should be thinking about when building out large scale data systems.

XFaaS is Meta's private platform for "Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions." It is more efficient than AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions.

Snyk’s Liran Tal discusses strategies for choosing the best node.js Docker image.

Webhooks are a callback integration technique for sending and receiving information, such as event notifications, in close to real-time. In this walkthrough, we’ll implement a GitHub webhook in Node.js that detects when users push code to a repository.

Axios can do a ton of stuff, but here's a simpler solution that can handle most use cases

An overview of caching mechanisms in Next.js.

Customize cache key variations and set Cache-Control headers to control the granularity and freshness of your cache. Purge the cache by site or cache tag.

An overview of the new features released in v1 - code block copy, multiple authors, frontmatter layout and more

The example code below describes how to add authentication to a Next.js app.

Install passport, passport-local, passport-local-mongoose Modules npm install passport@0.4.0 passpo...

Facebook.com launched in 2004 as a simple, server-rendered PHP website. Over time, we’ve added layer upon layer of new technology to deliver more interactive features. Each of these new features an…