When we design services for high availability, we often deploy more than one instance of the same application. It might be two servers behind a load balancer or a few nodes sharing the same workload. This setup is great for redundancy and performance, but it introduces a simple question: how can we make sure that only one instance executes a […]
We live in a time when every month brings a new framework, library, or architectural pattern that promises to change everything. Increasingly often, we come across a new technology, a new trend, and most possibly, a new hype. And we, developers, somehow lose sight of the goal we want to achieve and, sadly, embrace the hype instead. It starts innocently. […]
Every programming language has its oddities and challenges. When it comes to JavaScript, it has Every programming language has its oddities and challenges. When it comes to JavaScript, it has probably more of those oddities. It’s not the just language itself but also browser support and the long tail of old decisions. Different vendors implemented slightly different JavaScript engines for years […]
Choosing a programming language is one of the most defining decisions in software development. It shapes how a team writes, maintains, and reasons about their system. Today, there are hundreds of languages to choose from, and more appear each year. In theory, we should evaluate them carefully and select the one that best fits our problem. In reality, it rarely […]
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