While 83% of workers say remote work would make them happier with their jobs, not many people anticipated that the shift would happen as suddenly as it did. With companies around the world quickly transitioning their workforce to working from home, some employees will find it a challenge to make the switch. While designers may have dreamed of working in their […]
It is not hard to see that some people are struggling to handle errors, and some are even totally missing it. Handling errors properly means not only reducing the development time by finding bugs and errors easily but also developing a robust codebase for large-scale applications. In particular, Node.js developers sometimes find themselves working with not-so-clean code […]
Peripheral messages in digital products, collectively known as notifications, should never harm the user experience. Instead, they must contribute to an experience that helps people accomplish a goal. Addressing notification design early in the product design process will produce better results. Imagine a group of architects designing a three-story house, laboring over the blueprints for […]
API development is a hot topic nowadays. There’s a huge number of ways you can develop and deliver an API, and big companies have developed massive solutions to help you bootstrap an application quickly. Yet, most of those options lack a key feature: development lifecycle management. So, developers spend some cycles creating useful and robust […]
ake advantage of Python dataclasses to make your Python classes less verbose and more powerful at the same time Everything in Python is an object, or so the saying goes. If you want to create your own custom objects, with their own properties and methods, you use Python’s class object to make that happen. But creating classes […]
You can’t mention the term “web services” nowadays without immediately evoking references to Amazon Web Services or Google’s Web service, Google Cloud Platform. There’s a reason for that, though. These tech giants have raised the bar by addressing the need for application development. And scale from the likes of Amazon and Google is exactly what makes modern […]
The more you can plan ahead for your site, the easier it will be to maintain. Times have been tough lately in higher education. We’re all trying to do more work with fewer resources, and if your department is one of many that was affected by the current budget environment, you may have inherited some […]
We’re used to measuring our digital devices by how fast they are, how clear the sound is, how crisp the display is, how large the storage capacity is. Some day soon, if Homei Miyashita has his way, we may measure them by how delicious they are. The Meiji University researcher has developed a handheld “lickable […]
We are pleased to announce the technology preview of QUIC+HTTP/3 for NGINX at a special open source repository. This is pre‑release software, based on the IETF QUIC draft and is maintained in a development branch, isolated from the stable and mainline branches. The release is the culmination of several months of initial development, and is now ready for […]
“Great API products don’t get built by mistake,” says Rahul Dighe, the API and Platform Product Leader at PayPal. Even if you take into account all the trending principles of API ownership — design-first, API-as-a-Product, governance, KPIs, and more — you still might end up with an API that’s difficult to use. So, what advice would […]