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Java

Comprehensive Guide to Java Streams

Pratik Das
May 5, 2022

A stream is a sequence of elements on which we can perform different kinds of sequential and parallel operations. The Stream API was introduced in Java 8 and is used to process collections of objects.

Getting Started with Amazon EC2

Pratik Das
April 24, 2022

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a compute service with which we can create virtual machines in the AWS Cloud. We can configure the computing capacity of an EC2 instance and attach different types and capacities of storage which we can further scale up or down to handle changes in server load and consumer traffic, thereby reducing our need to forecast the capacity for investing in hardware upfront.

Node

Error Handling in Express

Pratik Das
April 20, 2022

Error handling functions in an application detect and capture multiple error conditions and take appropriate remedial actions to either recover from those errors or fail gracefully.

Java

When Should I Use Project Lombok?

Ranjani Harish
April 10, 2022

Project Lombok is a popular library that helps us to write clear, concise, and less repetitive Java code. However, among the developer community, it has been both embraced and criticized for reasons I would like to elaborate here.

Spring Boot

Exposing a Helpful Info Endpoint with Spring Boot Actuator

Saikat Sengupta
March 28, 2022

In a distributed, fast-paced environment, dev teams often want to find out at what time they deployed the app, what version of the app they deployed, what Git commit was deployed, and more.

Node

Complete Guide to Express Middleware

Pratik Das
March 26, 2022

Middleware functions are an integral part of an application built with the Express framework (henceforth referred to as Express application). They access the HTTP request and response objects and can either terminate the HTTP request or forward it for further processing to another middleware function.