Originally published at https://yieldcode.blog on February 19, 2022. Take a good look at the following function and try to understand what it’s doing. function do_magic(a, b) { return a + b; } Is it summing two numbers? Or maybe it’s doing string concatenation? The answer is: you can’t know. And…

This article was originally posted in my Blog It’s that time again. You come to your Toyota dealership to buy a new Toyota Corolla. You’ve been waiting to upgrade your old, fuel inefficient and slow model, with this year’s new model. But the new model is more fuel inefficient! Wait…

This post was originally published in my Personal Blog. It’s better viewed there due to Medium’s poor formatting. Thank you for reading! In my previous post about Native Rust Modules for NodeJS, people asked me how neon bindings would compare to WASM. Let’s check! WebAssembly (sometimes abbreviated Wasm) is an…

This story was initially published at My Blog. The path to becoming a great technical interviewer is full of doubts, tough decisions, and self-discovery. But I believe every engineer should try to walk it. In my career, I’ve interviewed close to 150 people by phone, on-site, and recently — via…

This article was initially published in my Blog Node isn’t the fastest framework out here. It’s not the slowest either, v8 is doing wonders to its speed, but nevertheless, if we setup an unfair battle between Node and say Rust; Node will lose. What is Rust? Rust is a multi-paradigm, high-level, general-purpose programming…

Originally published in my Blog We’ve all been there. Its time to introduce a new package / dependency to our code base, be it a HTTP request library, a logger or something else, and the question we ask ourselves “Should I wrap it?” The main reason we ask this question…

Originally published in my Blog In computing, a context switch is the process of storing the state of a process or of a thread, so that it can be restored and execution resumed from the same point later. This allows multiple processes to share a single CPU, and is an…

Originally published in my Blog Remember my last post about React.js localization? Not 2 years passed yet and I’m happy to share with you the “proper” way to do localization in React.js. Globalize.js Yes, I still use globalize. As I said in my previous post, the Common Locale Data Repository is…

Originally published in my Blog A key to a good API design is good control of what data your controllers or API end points accepts. Another important key to a good design — is that you can take a brief look at your API end point and immediately understand how…