Composition versus Inheritance in Software Engineering
A comparison between both approaches, revealing their distinct roles in shaping software engineering practices.
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2023
Optimizing Data Access: A Deep Dive into Database Indexes
Discover effective ways to speed up data searches in your database by exploring database indexes.
Bringing Back the Flags! Keyboard Layout Indicator as Country Flags on Gnome
A script for converting the keyboard layout indicator on Gnome from text to country flags
Efficient Software Release Management with Automated Changelog Generation
A development and release process with automated changelog generation and how to configure it
2019
REST API Best Practices
Some points to take into consideration when designing an API
2017
Caching API responses with Redis for faster endpoints
Redis is an in-memory database project implementing a key-value store with optional durability
Token based authentication in Node.js with Passport, JWT and bcrypt
Forget about the cookies and sessions. Time to go stateless!
Documenting your Node.js API with apiDoc
How to generate HTML documentation for your endpoints
Backup your MongoDB databases to Amazon S3
How to do it using a backup script I developed and Docker
Scheduling tasks with cron on Docker
When you need to setup a cron job, you can do it using Docker. In this post I show how to do that with an Alpine Linux image
My favorite fitness apps for Android
Here I list some apps I have used and others I still use and recommend
One year working with Node.js after PHP and .NET - Challenges, comparisons and improvements
Challenges, comparisons and improvements. A bit of what I've been experiencing with Node.js
Configuring Visual Studio Code for debugging Node.js and transpiling TypeScript
Say goodbye to debugging with console.log. Start using breakpoints and a real debugger
Tests and code coverage on Node.js using TypeScript with Mocha and Istanbul
How to configure the environment, write the tests, write the API endpoints and generate the code coverage report
2016
My favorite language learning resources
Some websites I've been using for learning languages
Configuring a load balancer with Nginx on Debian Linux
In this video I use Debian Linux on Virtualbox to show how a load balancer can be configured using Nginx, distributing the load among other instances
Write your mobile app once and run it anywhere with Ionic Framework
Hybrid mobile development with HTML5, AngularJS and Cordova
2015
Linux and me: Why I fell in love with Arch Linux
How I started using Linux and the things I love about Arch Linux
20 Years of PHP and Me
PHP's 20th anniversary and what this language means to my career
Experiencing 10 Programming Languages
I never understand when some people defend one programming language or full stack and never wanna know about other technologies and learn more about their di...