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Alex Aslam

Dec 29

Ruby on Rails in 2026: A Developer's Journey Through Time, Code, and Craft

#webdev #programming #javascript #ruby

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Alex Aslam

Nov 26

The Symphony of Silence: Crafting a Redis Pub/Sub Masterpiece

#webdev #programming #productivity #javascript

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Alex Aslam

Nov 26

Forging Steel: The Art of Crafting Resilient HTTP Clients

#webdev #programming #productivity #javascript

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Alex Aslam

Nov 10

The Art of the Memory Leak: A Journey Through Closure Captures

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

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Alex Aslam

Nov 9

The Art of Absence: A Journey Through `null` and `undefined` in Default Parameters

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

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Alex Aslam

Nov 7

The Symphony of Speed: A Journey into Node.js JIT Compilation

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

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Alex Aslam

Nov 7

The Art of Memory: A Journey with WeakMap and WeakSet

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

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Alex Aslam

Nov 3

The Art of the Do-Over: Designing Idempotent Jobs as a Journey to Peace of Mind

#webdev #programming #ruby #productivity

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Alex Aslam

Nov 3

The Art of Luminous Code: A Journey with Dynamic `import()` in Node.js

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Alex Aslam

Nov 3

The Art of the Meta: A Journey into JavaScript Proxies

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

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Alex Aslam

Nov 2

The Great Unification: A Journey from CommonJS to ES Modules in Node.js

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

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Alex Aslam

Nov 2

The Siren's Call of Async/Await: A Journey Beyond `try/catch`

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

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Alex Aslam

Oct 31

Architectural Sanctums: Crafting Mini-Apps with Rails Engines

#webdev #programming #productivity #ruby

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Alex Aslam

Oct 31

Sculpting Monoliths: The Art of Packaging Rails with Components, Gems, and Engines

#webdev #programming #ruby #productivity

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Alex Aslam

Oct 28

The Ghost in the Machine: A Journey into the Floating Promise Pitfall

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

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Alex Aslam

Oct 28

The Duet of Real-Time: A Journey Through WebSockets and SSE

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Alex Aslam

Oct 27

The Siren's Call: My Journey Through the Myth of "Newer is Faster"

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Alex Aslam

Oct 27

The Architect's Journey: From the Grand Cathedral to a Fleet of Schooners

#webdev #programming #productivity #ruby

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Alex Aslam

Oct 27

The Ghost in the Machine: Taming Cache Invalidation in Rails

#webdev #programming #productivity #ruby

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Alex Aslam

Oct 27

The Silent Symphony: Scaling Read-Heavy Rails Apps with Read Replicas

#webdev #programming #productivity #ruby

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Alex Aslam

Oct 24

The Cartographer's Compass: Navigating the PostgreSQL Query Planner

#webdev #programming #ruby #productivity

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Alex Aslam

Oct 24

Mine Artisan's Workshop: Evolving Service Objects into Policies, Forms, and Queries

#webdev #programming #ruby #productivity

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Alex Aslam

Oct 24

The Architect's Blueprint: A Journey into Node.js's Module Soul

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

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Alex Aslam

Oct 24

The Artisan's Return: AdonisJS and the Quest for a Cohesive Node.js

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Alex Aslam

Oct 23

The Artisan's Forge: Extending Node.js with the Power of Native Addons

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Alex Aslam

Oct 23

The Artisan's Pursuit: Conquering the Silent Performance Killer in GraphQL and REST

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Alex Aslam

Oct 23

The Conductor's Baton: Orchestrating Real-Time UIs with Turbo Streams

#webdev #programming #beginners #ruby

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Alex Aslam

Oct 22

The Stained-Glass Artisan: Composing UIs with Turbo Frames

#webdev #programming #beginners #ruby

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Alex Aslam

Oct 22

The Cartographer's Guide to Rails: Mapping Domains with Bounded Contexts

#webdev #programming #beginners #ruby

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Alex Aslam

Oct 22

The Artisan's Trail: Maintaining a Legacy Node.js Monolith with the Boy Scout Rule

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

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Alex Aslam

Oct 22

The Artisan's Journey: Weaving the Unbreakable Tapestry of Database Integration Tests

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Alex Aslam

Oct 21

The Circuit Breaker: A Symphony of Resilience in a World of Chaos

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

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Alex Aslam

Oct 21

Advanced ActiveRecord: The Query Interface as a Symphony of Abstraction

#webdev #programming #ruby #beginners

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Alex Aslam

Oct 21

The `concerns/` Folder: A Loom of Architecture or a Digital Junk Drawer?

#webdev #programming #ruby #beginners

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Alex Aslam

Oct 21

The Proxy Pattern: A Masterpiece of Control and Illusion in Node.js

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

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Alex Aslam

Oct 17

The Symphony of One: Conducting Node.js Monorepos with Lerna, Nx, and Turborepo

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

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6 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 17

The Sculptor's Studio: Carving Modularity from the Rails Monolith

#webdev #programming #ruby #beginners

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Alex Aslam

Oct 17

The "Rails Way" vs. "The Right Way": A Painter's Journey Beyond the Canvas

#webdev #programming #ruby #beginners

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Alex Aslam

Oct 17

From Bloated Container to Sculpted Artifact: The Art of the Node.js Dockerfile

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

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Alex Aslam

Oct 16

The Art of Defense: A Senior Developer's Journey Through the OWASP Top 10 for Node.js

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Alex Aslam

Oct 16

From Chaos to Clarity: The Artistic Evolution of Async JavaScript

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

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Alex Aslam

Oct 16

The Art of the Resilient Worker: A Sidekiq Master's Guide to Idempotency, Retries, and the Afterlife of Dead Jobs

#webdev #programming #ruby #beginners

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Alex Aslam

Oct 16

The Caching Pyramid: A Sculptor's Guide to Performance

#webdev #programming #ruby #beginners

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Alex Aslam

Oct 15

The Artisan's Guide to PostgreSQL: Sculpting Data with JSONB, Arrays, and Full-Text Search

#webdev #programming #ruby #beginners

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Alex Aslam

Oct 15

The Art of the Data Fetch: A Journey Through `pluck`, `select`, and `map`

#webdev #programming #beginners #ruby

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Alex Aslam

Oct 15

The Invisible Conveyor Belt: A Journey into the Microtask Queue

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

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Alex Aslam

Oct 15

The Unseen Artisan: Understanding Libuv, the Engine Behind the Event Loop

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

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Alex Aslam

Oct 14

The Subtle but Critical Difference: `process.nextTick()` vs. `setImmediate()`

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

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Alex Aslam

Oct 14

The Art of the Chisel: Crafting Pluggable Business Rules with the Strategy Pattern

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Alex Aslam

Oct 14

The Art of the Map: Navigating the Modern ORM Landscape

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Alex Aslam

Oct 14

The Artisan's Journey: Sculpting JSON in Rails

#webdev #programming #ruby #beginners

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Alex Aslam

Oct 13

The Invisible Orchestra: Is Serverless the Conductor We've Been Waiting For?

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

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Alex Aslam

Oct 13

The Sculptor's Fallacy: Debunking the Myth of the "Fast" NoSQL

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

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Alex Aslam

Oct 13

The Ghost in the Machine: A Journey Through the Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing

#webdev #programming #ai #javascript

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Alex Aslam

Oct 13

The Symphony and the Stampede: Why Throwing Developers at a Problem is an Art, Not a Brute Force

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

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Alex Aslam

Oct 11

Securing Your Frontend: The Art of Crafting a Digital Fortress

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

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Alex Aslam

Oct 11

The Sculptor's Studio: YAGNI, KISSS, and DRY as Tools of the Trade

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

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4 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 11

The Symphony of Scale: A Case Study on Conducting 10x Traffic

#webdev #programming #ruby #beginners

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5 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 2

The Quiet Artisan: Why Ruby on Rails is Still the Atelier of the Web

#webdev #programming #ruby #beginners

4 min read

Alex Aslam

Sep 16

The Art of the Bounce: Crafting a Self-Healing Job Processing System

#webdev #programming #ruby #beginners

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