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Being able to safely refactor code is one of the greatest benefits of writing tests. The goal of refactoring is to improve code design e.g. style, design patterns, performance. Let's take an example from the previous route handler which has already b...
Marginal gains ⚙️ The 2020 Summer Olympic Games were held in Tokyo between 23 July and 8 August. The enduring motto of the Olympics is “Faster, Higher, Stronger”. From 1908 to 2003 the British cycling team won only 1 gold medal at the Olympics. This ...
This is a scenario that took some time to understand. I could see errors in the browser but everything on the server seemed to be configured correctly. The problem was, that when a request was made by the browser, the server handling the request made...
Florida and Minnesota each developed their Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (SACWIS). In Florida, system development started in 1990 and was estimated to take 8 years and cost $32 million. As Johnson spoke in 2002, Florida had spe...
Why a health route? I want to begin with the end in mind. When our API is deployed in a cloud environment, the automated, cloud deployment will need a way to know that our API has started correctly. That is the purpose of the GET /health route. I hav...
The beginning is a very good place to start and we begin by setting up our project. You might want to skip this if you're familiar with setting up a project with Jest and Typescript. I have opened a Github pull request that shows all the code changes...
In a world where APIs rule the web and JavaScript is the language that reigns across all the stacks, one framework shall rise to challenge the Kingdom of Express. Introduction Fastify, first of its name, is a low overhead (aka. fast) server-side Java...
A useful way I like to remember what data structures are is the mnemonic “DORITOS”. Where D is Data, O is Operations, R(i) is Relationship, T(o) is time and S is space. Let’s consider a recipe to make a tasty salsa dip for our Doritos. We can make a ...
I grab the mic and jump up to the right as does my asymptote. I never run more than once, man, 'cause to quote, “Overruns become the source of overflows”. Within the walls of operations, Big O is defined. We conceive of memory and time, in a Big O ...
