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17 articles
Docker and Kubernetes: Packaging and Operating Applications
Containers package applications with their dependencies to support more consistent delivery. Docker provides tools for working with containers, while Kubernetes orchestrates containerised workloads. Together they can support deployment workflows when their operational complexity is justified.
2023-12-27↗
MongoDB Features: Documents, Indexes and Replication
MongoDB is a document database. Its document model, indexing and replication address different application needs; choosing it should begin with the records and queries your product actually requires. A flexible data model does not remove the need for validation, security or recovery planning.
2023-12-06↗
How Node.js Handles I/O and CPU-Heavy Work
Node.js can coordinate many I/O operations without dedicating a JavaScript thread to each waiting request. That does not mean every operation runs in parallel or that CPU-heavy JavaScript becomes free. Work that occupies the event loop for too long delays other callbacks and requests.
2023-11-29↗
Container Orchestration: Decide Whether the Complexity Is Worth It
Container orchestration helps teams schedule, run and manage groups of containers. Platform choice depends on workload needs, operational skills and ongoing support. This article includes historical tools; verify a project’s current maintenance status before adopting it.
2023-11-24↗
A Practical DevOps Workflow: Build, Test and Release
A practical DevOps workflow connects a reviewed change to a reproducible build, appropriate verification, a controlled deployment and feedback from the running service. The purpose is to make delivery understandable and repeatable. Tools support that process, but ownership and recovery decisions sti
2023-11-10↗
Agile Delivery: Planning, Feedback and Adaptation
Agile delivery uses short feedback cycles to adapt work as a team learns about users, requirements and implementation constraints. It is not defined only by meetings or a particular board. Working software and useful feedback should influence the next decision.
2023-11-10↗
Software Development Beyond Coding: Understand, Verify and Maintain
A small feature such as an invoice reminder involves more than sending a message. The team must decide when it should run, who can change it, how duplicate reminders are avoided and what happens if delivery fails. Those decisions connect user needs, implementation, testing and support. Make them vis
2023-11-10↗
Release Reliability: A DevOps Checklist for Small Teams
Release reliability comes from understanding the change, limiting its potential impact, observing the deployed result and preparing a recovery route. A successful deployment command only confirms one part of the process. The customer journey and the service behind it must still work.
2023-11-08↗
Serverless Computing: Operations, Performance and Cost Trade-Offs
Serverless services let teams run selected workloads while a provider manages much of the underlying infrastructure. They can reduce some operational work, but cost, latency, limits and portability depend on the application.
2023-11-07↗
When to Use Node.js for APIs and Realtime Features
Node.js is a JavaScript runtime, not a programming language. It runs JavaScript outside the browser and is commonly used for services, command-line tools and application backends. Choosing it should depend on workload, team experience and the operational requirements of the product.
2023-10-13↗
Time Management for Developers: Priorities, Focus and Review
Software development involves competing priorities, uncertain estimates and interruptions. These four practices can help you plan focused work, make progress visible and adjust commitments when requirements change.
2023-10-10↗
Coding Skills: Problem Solving, Debugging and Communication
A useful learning project can be a small stock tracker with create, edit and search functions. Define the expected behaviour, build one path, then test invalid input and missing records. Explain the choices to another person and use their questions to improve the work. This produces evidence of unde
2023-10-02↗
Choosing Software Technology: Fit, Maintenance and Exit Costs
Choosing technology starts with the needs of a product and the team that will maintain it.
2023-09-27↗
Cloud Computing for Small Businesses: Access, Recovery and Cost
Cloud computing provides access to computing resources over a network, commonly the internet. It can help smaller businesses support remote work and adapt capacity, but cost, security, backups and provider responsibilities still need careful planning.
2023-09-26↗
MongoDB Data Modelling: Documents and Relationships
Design a MongoDB model around the way an application reads and updates its data. Documents contain fields and values, collections group documents, and relationships can be represented through embedding or references. Flexibility is useful when it is accompanied by explicit application rules.
2023-09-22↗
Measuring DevOps Improvement: Flow, Stability and Learning
Measure whether software changes reach users with less unnecessary delay and acceptable reliability. Use delivery and operational evidence together. A team that deploys more often while creating more disruption has not necessarily improved the service.
2023-09-18↗
Software Engineering Habits: Craft, Judgement and Growth
A career in software engineering takes more than technical knowledge. Building projects, learning to debug, communicating clearly and understanding user needs all help you develop reliable software and grow professionally.
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