balalaika IT newsletter #5, Frontend Does CSS grid seem kind of complicated to you? Do you find yourself constantly fighting it, endlessly browsing web for yet another hack? Here i...

What’s New in MongoDB 4.4, What’s New in MongoDB 4.4. The latest public beta for the popular… | by Abhijeet Srivastava | Jul, 2020 | Medium Abhijeet Srivastava ・ Jul 9, 2020 ・...

balalaika IT newsletter #4, Frontend An in-depth guide on building your own 100% reactive renderer from scratch. A must-read research on CPU cost of JavaScript. Bootstrap 5 alpha i...

balalaika IT newsletter #3, Frontend TJ VanToll watched all 27 React Europe talks and provided us with his notes. A good read from PayPal on how they approach sharing UI components...

balalaika IT newsletter #2, Frontend Mark Erikson (Redux maintaiiner) provides us with 'details on how React rendering behaves, and how use of Context and React-Redux affect render...

balalaika IT newsletter #1, Frontend Have you ever doubted CSS-in-JS? I was a huge antagonist myself until I heard this Max Stoiber's talk. Deep dive into React concurrent mode. Ge...

Top tips on Node Express (for Java Developers),Sometimes learning a new language and stack can seem so alien, well at least it did to me. You know that programming in any paradigm ...

Learn regex the easy way, What is Regular Expression? Regular expression is a group of characters or symbols which is used to find a specific pattern from a text. A regular express...

Springboot vs. NodeJS,Please note here i'm talking about monolithic application, since we all know when it comes to small and medium scale startup/company tend to get things starti...

Building a real-time data streaming app with Apache Kafka,Written by Alexander Nnakwue️ Introduction Most large tech companies get data from their users in various ways, and most ...

3 Different ways to start a HTTP Web Server from the Terminal,In this relatively quick video I want to showcase 3 very quick and different ways that you can start up a HTTP Web Ser...

A Better Explaination, Hello, again! Since my previous post on Snippet was vague, I decided to make a new one, describing what it is for and what possibilities it could have. A Des...