One of the most basic requirements of good application monitoring is to have robust logging to keep track of everything that’s going on. By themselves, however, the log messages can only tell us so much. Seeing a log message indicating that a video has been uploaded is informative, but usually we would also like to have some context for this “event.”
One of the most basic requirements of good application monitoring is to have robust logging to keep track of everything that’s going on. By themselves, however, the log messages can only tell us so much. Seeing a log message indicating...
Having a good feedback loop is extremely important for developers. A properly configured project has a CI/CD pipeline that ensures the code will not break anything in the application’s logic or codebase itself by running the necessary checks, such as...
Testing applications can seem like a fairly complicated concept, and thus many programmers avoid it due to the fear of failure — especially in the Node.js world, where testing applications are not so ubiquitous as in, say, Java, and the...
When we deal with objects in our applications, they often contain sensitive information. An object that represents a user fetched from the database, for example, would likely contain a password.
When working on a relatively young application, people often tend to disregard the need for scalability in order to implement features quicker. However, I believe that even at the earliest stages of a project, it is crucial to ensure our...
