Svelte delivers a delightful low-code DX for responsive web applications. Here’s a brief overview of the pertinent code…

Sometimes we need to observe the memory usage of a NodeJS program in order to fix leaks. This is never an easy task but the good news is that you don’t need to modify a NodeJS program in order to monitor its memory usage. …

ChatGPT understands Mermaid ER diagrams! Let’s try an example: erDiagram ORGANIZATION ||--|{ USER : has ORGANIZATION ||--|{ TEAM : has USER ||--|{ USER-ROLE: has USER-ROLE }|--|| ROLE: role TEAM ||--|{ TEAM-USER : has…

One of the whitest and slapstickiest Saturday morning cartoons of all time was recently darkened , including — finally! — its executive producer. How dare they! Stick with native stories I guess? 🤷🏻‍♀️ Giving whitebread culture a tanned makeover normally drives Nazi incels crazy. But this time, they’re enjoying the…

Express Gateway directs public API requests to private backend services. It features customizable pipelines that invoke policies: plug-in functions that accept NodeJS request and response objects. Policies can, for example, enforce security or add headers to requests. This article presents a custom policy that logs requests. Although Express Gateway provides…

The Set-Up Consider the scenario in which rows in a table are ordered relative to each other. Each row in the table is assigned a unique number so they can be displayed in a particular order, like a spreadsheet: 1. Doors 2. Appliances 3. Plumbing 4. Windows Note that the items are…

Consider a table consisting only of foreign key columns. Each row in the table has an implicit meaning that is conveyed via the table’s name. Like table names, this meaning can not be changed easily. For example, the table EditorRole with documentId and roleId columns specifies which user roles can…

What is the best way to “soft” delete database rows that are no longer needed? Perhaps this is a regulatory requirement. Or maybe the schema declares foreign key constraints but without cascading deletes. We’re don’t need to store a detailed change log, but we don’t want information to disappear, either. …

While most MVPs fail, a few manage to succeed despite technical trade-offs that minimize time to market. Promises made to pay off the tech debt are rarely kept. It’s easy to say that MVPs should be discarded as soon as Series A hits the bank. There are few public data…