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Design Patterns Trade-offs

Design Patterns Trade-offs

Design Patterns are typical solutions to commonly occurring problems in software design. They are like pre-made blueprints that you can customize to solve a recurring design problem in your code. Introduction Each of the design patterns represents a specific type of solution to a specific type of problem. There is

Vector Space (Similarity) Search

Vector Space (Similarity) Search

Vector space (Similarity) searching in the context of facial recognition systems. In this article we will discuss the following: * Vector * Vector Space * Use cases for Vector space models * Importance of Vector Representation and the Distance function * Vector Similarity search * Using Indexes for Vector Similarity Search Vectors The standard definition of

Actor Model and its Significance

Actor Model and its Significance

Brief introduction to Actor Model, and the problems it solves? What is Actor Model The actor model is a model of concurrent computation that treats actors as the universal primitive of concurrent computation. In response to a message it receives, an actor can: make local decisions, create more actors, send

Concurrent Programming and Shared Memory Pitfalls

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Concurrent Programming and Shared Memory Pitfalls

Objectives * Process * Process Scheduling * Interprocess Communication * Synchronization Mechanisms What is a Process? Typically a process is: -> A program in execution is considered a process... -> But some programs run as multiple processes.. Process: A new Perspective We could view Process as a data structure. Example: Stack Defined as the

JavaScript: Garbage Collection

JavaScript: Garbage Collection

What is Garbage Collection? Overview Garbage collection (GC) is a form of automatic memory management. The garbage collector attempts to reclaim memory which was allocated by the program, but is no longer referenced also called garbage. Garbage collection was invented by American computer scientists around 1959 to simplify manual memory

Javascript: Tasks /Macro Tasks, Micro tasks, and Nano tasks

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Javascript: Tasks /Macro Tasks, Micro tasks, and Nano tasks

Introduction Javascript is a single-threaded language, so it can only execute one operation at a time. It uses a javascript scheduler to manage long operations such as HTTP calls in order to avoid blocking the main thread. To understand this you need to know how the event loop handles tasks

Stochastic Optimization: Ant Colony Optimization

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Stochastic Optimization: Ant Colony Optimization

What is Stochastic Optimization? Stochastic optimization is the process of maximizing or minimizing the value of a mathematical or statistical function when one or more of the input parameters is subject to randomness. The word stochastic means involving chance or probability. Stochastic optimization plays an important role in the analysis,

Atomic Design Methodology with React and TypeScript

Atomic Design Methodology with React and TypeScript

"We’re not designing pages, we’re designing systems of components."—Stephen Hay Introduction Atomic Design is all about creating and maintaining robust design systems, allowing you to roll out higher quality, more consistent UIs faster than ever before. This artical introduces a methodology for thinking of our UIs as

Embracing Agile: What is Agile Methodology and How to implement it effectively

Embracing Agile: What is Agile Methodology and How to implement it effectively

Being in the software development sector, we often hear the word “Agile” as this phenomenon is quickly gaining popularity due to its potentiality to complete work in the complex, ever-changing environment that we live in. Agile thrives in adaptive cultures where team members rapidly change their approach in order to

Using Command Bus in NodeJs

Using Command Bus in NodeJs

The Command Pattern was one of the behavioral patterns described by The Gang of Four as a way for two objects to communicate. Lets get familiar with terminology A command is an object that signals an intent, like RegisterUser. Commands are passed to the command bus. Command bus will pass

Introduction to Pakistan's first email service

Introduction to Pakistan's first email service

We are glad to announce that we are launching bmail.pk "Pakistan's first email service". From a very long time, we felt the need to take an initiative for making the internet more secure and private in Pakistan. This all started when we asked the question if Pakistan is becoming

Custom Exception Handling
with NodeJS

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Custom Exception Handling with NodeJS

Errors are thrown by the engine, and exceptions are thrown by the developer.But what exactly does this mean? In JavaScript, all exceptions are simply objects while the majority of exceptions are implementations of the global Error class. There are two ways to throw an exception: 1. Directly via an

Survival Of Your Business During Coronavirus Outbreak

Survival Of Your Business During Coronavirus Outbreak

What comes first, the problem or solution? Do we already have the solution for the problem we all are facing nowadays? Some people have now heard the word “Coronavirus” more times than they have heard their own names throughout their lives. How is it affecting us? Where is it going

Big Data in Healthcare - A Revolution for the Industry

Big Data in Healthcare - A Revolution for the Industry

This article provides detailed information about big data in healthcare, its benefits, and challenges and explains how healthcare providers can benefit from this methodology in future.

The Potential of Big Data in Technological Age

The Potential of Big Data in Technological Age

This article explains what is big data, how to use big data, its types and characteristics, and mentions big data use cases.

Webpack Optimizing Production Build

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Webpack Optimizing Production Build

Providing the mode configuration option tells webpack to use its built-in optimizations accordingly. You just set the mode object in webpack.config.js file mode:"development" If you want to change the behavior according to the mode variable inside the webpack.config.js, you have to export a function instead

Webpack with Code Splitting

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Webpack with Code Splitting

In this article, we'll discuss about code splitting. This feature can split code into various bundles after which can be loaded on demand or in parallel.

Webpack with Hot Module Replacement

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Webpack with Hot Module Replacement

This article will teach you to use webpack feature "Hot Module Replacement". Without reloading the browser HMR can change the old module with the newer ones

Get Up And Run With Webpack And React

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Get Up And Run With Webpack And React

In this article we will learn about Webpack, why we use it, its core concepts and how to setup react app with webpack.

MERN Stack with Kubernetes

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MERN Stack with Kubernetes

In this article, I will cover how you can setup MERN stack application on Kubernetes. Prerequisites It is assumed that you have an understanding of the following tools/concepts and have them installed on your system: * Docker * Minikube * NodeJS Introduction The purpose of this article is to familiarize you with

MERN Stack with Docker

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MERN Stack with Docker

In this article, we will cover how you can use docker compose to setup MERN stack in development environment. Requirements on our end are pretty simple and straightforward. * Control our configuration * Setup the server * Setup the client Furthermore we will explore how we can manage our application on docker. * Inspect

What is Koa? A Brief Overview.

What is Koa? A Brief Overview.

According to official “koa” documentation, koa is: “Next-generation framework for Node.js” Koa is created by the team who created the Express Framework. The main reasons for creating koa after Express was the need for a more expressive and robust foundation for APIs and web applications. Koa uses async functions

MVP Development Process With Django

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MVP Development Process With Django

For those who don’t know what an MVP is, let me start from the bottom. MVP stands for “Minimum Viable Product” Let’s take a look at the Minimal Viable Product definition from wikipedia: “Minimum viable product (MVP) is a product with just enough features to satisfy early customers,

Role of Node JS Framework in MEAN Stack

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Role of Node JS Framework in MEAN Stack

MEAN Stack, which is the focus of this article is a free and open-source JavaScript stack for building web applications that are dynamic.