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Terraform State Migration: Seamlessly Moving from AWS S3 to Google Cloud Storage

Ashish Sharma — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:43:10 +0000

Introduction: What if the single source of truth for your entire infrastructure lived in the wrong cloud? For years, our Terraform state lived in an AWS S3 bucket while our infrastructure increasingly ran on Google Cloud Platform. That split created cross-cloud dependencies, IAM complexity, and a growing mismatch between where we managed infrastructure and where […]

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GraphQL vs REST: What We Gain and What We Lose

Dhruv Jain — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:46:24 +0000

Introduction Over the past few sprints, a recurring question has been: GraphQL or REST? Most discussions revolved around frontend flexibility, performance, and how much complexity we want in our APIs. For example, a mobile app often needs just user names, not full profiles—overfetching in REST can impact performance, increasing bandwidth and slowing down user experience. […]

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What is Serverless and How JavaScript Fits Into It

Kunwar Anas Ali — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:29:58 +0000

Introduction Serverless. A term that often confuses at first glance. Because servers are still there. You just don’t touch them. You don’t set them up, scale them, or patch them. That’s someone else’s job now — the cloud provider’s. And the most common example of this approach is AWS Lambda. For many developers, Lambda is […]

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Getting Started with Strapi CMS: A Comprehensive Guide for Developers

Siddhraj Purohit — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 07:47:11 +0000

Introduction Strapi CMS is a headless, open-source content management system designed for modern web and mobile applications. Unlike traditional CMS platforms, Strapi is a modern tool where the part that manages content (backend) is separated from the part users see (frontend). This lets developers choose any design or technology for their website or app while […]

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Containerizing Your Node.js Server with Docker: Using Custom Docker Bridge Network

Kunwar Anas Ali — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:21:52 +0000

Introduction: Why Containerization Is Important In modern software development, containerization has become a standard practice, particularly for Node.js applications and microservices. But why is containerization so valuable? Consistency Across Environments: One of the main challenges in development is environment inconsistencies. An application that runs on your local machine might behave differently in production due to […]

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Exploring Fastify vs. Express.js: Choosing the Right Node.js Framework for Your Project

Sushant Goyal — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 04:55:26 +0000

When it comes to selecting a web application framework in the Node.js world, developers have a wealth of possibilities. The two most often used options are Express.js and Fastify. Both frameworks have special qualities and benefits that make them appropriate for various use cases. We’ll examine the features of Express.js and Fastify in this blog […]

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Implementing Role based Access Control in NestJS

Harshit Wadhwa — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 04:40:19 +0000

NestJS is a progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, reliable, and scalable server-side applications. A prerequisite for this article is a basic understanding of NestJS. If you have worked on Node.js web applications and want to implement applications using object-based programming, such as Java, NestJS is good to go. The learning curve is also not […]

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Why and how finally{…} block is NOT meaningless

Shivang Chaturvedi — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 09:33:55 +0000

A definition first (from the internet): try-catch-finally is used to handle runtime errors and prevent them from halting the execution of a program. The finally block triggers regardless of: what is implemented inside the try-catch block any errors encountered inside try-catch block any return statement written inside the try-catch block Example 1 Consider this example where there’s no error: (()=>{ try { console.log(`Try block triggered`) […]

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Top level await() without async() function in NodeJs

Shivang Chaturvedi — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 15:45:57 +0000

Here’s how async-await function typically works: function myDummyBackendCall() { return new Promise((resolve) => { setTimeout(() => { resolve({ name: "Shivang", id: "asmdhajkdhajdsh8qweuqoweuiqepoi-0q-0eueiuaisjdaKcjaisku", }); }); }); } // Used an async wrapper function to make an await call (async () => { let data = await myDummyBackendCall(); console.log(data); })(); If you are a JS developer, you […]

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Go Pointers! Let’s talk about it…

Shivang Chaturvedi — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 14:41:07 +0000

A pointer, as name suggests, is a variable that points to a location in the memory of your system where a value is stored rather than a value itself. Basically, it is an address to the value stored in memory. The definition is simple but this concept can be a little tricky to wrap your […]

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