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Debugging Node.js TypeScript Applications in WebStorm

But Why Another Guide?

I’ve decided to write this short port since I found there are simply too many guides out there which are either out of date, incomplete, inaccurate or just over-complicated.

This is a true dummy’s guide: if you follow these clear instructions carefully you will be debugging within 5-10 minutes.

Hopefully this post will come […]

Optimizing Node.js Apps

As Node.js gains continuous traction offering parallel and in many times superior qualities compared to traditional technologies, the question of optimizing our app/service becomes one of increased importance. Whether we’re building a monolith server or a microservices oriented solution, we’d like to squeeze more juice out of the underlying CPU/VM by running optimized code.

Putting aside […]

By |September 11th, 2018|Development Tools, Node.js, Productivity, Server Side, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Developing a Blockchain Explorer

Taming CPU Intensive Node.js Streams

By |January 6th, 2017|Node.js, Server Side, Software Development, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Spark Streaming – Graceful Shutdown HowTo

Spark Streaming allows us to process large amounts of live data from multiple sources, in a scalable and fault tolerant manner. It is used widely to process for example live Twitter feeds, consume and process Kafka topic messages or data from Amazon S3, simple TCP sockets or custom input streams/feeds.

In many cases, we are perfectly […]

By |May 13th, 2016|Big Data, Java, Server Side|0 Comments

How To Keep Your Servers Running 24/7/365

Developing back-end services is today part of every serious developer’s work, and there are unlimited options for developing them – using different programming languages, paradigms tools and frameworks.

One big challenge is making sure our services are up and running at all times, that we have enough free space on our drives for running smoothly, restarting services when new versions are deployed […]

By |March 15th, 2016|Development Tools, Devops, Server Side|0 Comments