25 posts tagged with "database"

Many developers are rightly nervous when dealing with databases. Not only is the database absolutely critical to proper functioning of the…

Your application's data is probably one of the most valuable and longest-lived pieces of your application. When your application goes to the…

Database performance issues are the scourge of any large application, especially as load increases. They can be hard to understand, happen…

Database migrations are a complicated topic. While easy solutions exist for simple migrations, trivial implementations can fail…

While the typical user of your application probably won't be interested in your audit trails, that doesn't mean that you can get by without…

Document databases are becoming increasingly common. Not only do they offer a lot of advantages over relational databases in certain…

The rule: Normalize until it hurts; denormalize until it works. That's what you typically get taught early on. While normalizing a database…

White-Label applications offer an additional level of challenges over "normal" application development. Due to some of these constraints…

There are a lot of things that are treated as a given in modern software development. Things like continuous deployment, having direct…

Database normalization is the process of organizing data in a relational database. It was first proposed by Edgar F. Codd in his 1970 paper…

Command/Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) is a way of designing the code in an app that talks to a database. It creates a logical…

"A database object is not a programming object." CRUD stands for Create, Read, Update, Delete. These are the major functions you'll see in…

Your database is often the most important part of your application in terms of actual value to the business. The value of the database will…

Generally speaking a data type is either primitive or composite. A primitive data type can either be a basic type that provides the basic…

To begin some basic concepts of almost any programming language include variables, control structures, data structures, syntax, and tools…

"I've discovered a lot of JavaScript Promises issues because if you throw in a debugger it works." Logging provides routine diagnostic…

"Once you know you're in the Dunning-Kruger club, you're no longer in the Dunning-Kruger club" There are many reasons that you might not…

Typically, when someone uses the term efficiency, they are describing how much effort is required to achieve a result. The term is…

The single tier design comes from the time of the "mainframe" computers. Everything is done on a single computer with all resources attached…

Soulbound by Bethany Adams available on Amazon "Why does your database administrator (DBA) hate your object relational mapping (ORM)?" Many…

Finishing the two part episode on skills web developers need to know the guys tackle the skills needed to land a job along with advanced…

The question was asked on Quora: What are the five essential skills every web developer should have? There were 91 different answers to this…

Nine commonly held yet erroneous beliefs that developers tend to have about work, employers, other departments, and more. While it is not an…

Nine commonly held yet erroneous beliefs that developers tend to have about work, employers, other departments, and more. While it is not an…

In this episode the guys discuss beliefs that developers hold (or act as if they hold) that simply are not true. They delve into commonly…