Best practices for REST API security: Authentication and authorization
If you have a REST API accessible on the internet, you're going to need to secure it. Here's the best practices on how to do that.
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Extracting text from any file is harder than it looks. Extracting formatting is even harder.
We discuss how to handle challenges like this with speed and scale in our latest piece from Hyland
Level Up: Introduction to TypeScript
In this one-off Level Up session, we’re exploring TypeScript, a popular programming language used for web development. Josh Goldberg, a Staff Frontend Developer at Codecademy, walks us through the basics of TypeScript. We discuss its relationship to JavaScript, how TypeScript is used in real production environments (like Codecademy itself!), how to get involved in the…
Why your data needs a QA process
At this point, most software engineers see the value of testing their software regularly. But are you testing your data engineering as well?
Observability is key to the future of software (and your DevOps career)
Observability platforms enable you to easily figure out what’s happening with every request and to identify the cause of issues fast. Learning the principles of observability and OpenTelemetry will set you apart from the crowd and provide you with a skill set that will be in increasing demand as more companies perform cloud migrations.
Scaling front end design with a design system
If you're building the same UI components over and over, you might need a design system.
Level Up: Build a Quiz App with SwiftUI – Part 4
In the fourth and final lesson of the series, we’ll learn how to use SwiftUI navigation to present different views to the user. We’ll build a welcome screen with instructions for the user as well as a final screen with their results to the quiz. A user will also have the option to re-take the…
Pandemic lockdowns accelerated cloud migration by three to four years
The number of questions across Stack Overflow surged, and new research solidifies this trend.
Level Up: Build a Quiz App with SwiftUI – Part 3
In the third lesson of the series, we’ll continue to incorporate the MVVM architecture and build a view model for our quiz app which mediates communication between the view and the model. Additionally, we’ll build a game model structure and add more questions and functionality for new questions to appear as the user advances through…
Diagnose engineering process failures with data visualization
Here's three areas where data visualization can make your engineering life easier.
You’re living in the Metaverse, you just don’t know it yet.
The concept of the Metaverse was coined by sci-fi author Neal Stephenson decades ago. Have we reached some meaningful inflection point in our journey towards this dream?
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