Many people wonder how a single-threaded Node.js can compete with multithreaded back ends. At first it may seem counterintuitive that so many huge companies pick Node as their back end, given its supposed single-threaded nature. To know why, we have to understand what we really mean when we say that Node.js is single-threaded.
Recently in one of my projects I had to remove duplicates from an array. Instead of looking up a npm package that could do it for me I chose to implement it myself. Here’s what I learned about this seemingly...
Many people wonder how a single-threaded Node.js can compete with multithreaded back ends. At first it may seem counterintuitive that so many huge companies pick Node as their back end, given its supposed single-threaded nature. To know why, we have...
When working with functional programming a good rule of thumb is to always create new objects instead of changing old ones. In doing so we can be sure that our meddling with the object’s structure won’t affect some seemingly unrelated...
Many note-taking apps nowadays offer to take a picture of a document and turn it into text. I was curious how it works and decided to dig a little deeper to see what exactly was going on there.
When dealing with a lot of records it is essential to create a way in which clients can specify how many they wish to obtain exactly. Returning records in chunks as opposed to dumping it all at once saves a...
