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JavaScript delete operator might cause some unexpected performance issues.

So I was working on some benchmarking with a piece of code in JavaScript and I was scratching my head over the runtimes that I was seeing. I literally could not make sense of what was happening. And in a wild attempt at debugging, I stumbled upon a q...

A complete guide on being a great manager, written by an engineer

I’m not a manager I’m a software engineer in the Bay Area and I’ve been working in the tech industry for a significant part of my adult life. For all these years, I’ve always had a manager- whether it was working in a small startup or a large company...

Testing Typescript GraphQL Server using Jest with Docker

While working on a backend built using typescript, graphql, and mongoDB I reached a point where I needed some code coverage to continue development. Documenting test cases in graphql playground wasn't scaling anymore and I'm strictly against using Go...

Complete Guide on Debugging Typescript Node Application in VS Code Using Remote Development Feature

This is simple guide to get started with debugging typescript node application in VS Code using the Remote Development extension. The issue with this use-case is that the application files are mounted to the container, built there and then server run...

Deploying private Docker image to AWS Beanstalk (Amazon Linux 2) using docker-compose.yml

In this article I'm going to go over the steps to set deploy a private docker image on Elastic Beanstalk using docker-compose.yml. Beanstalk deployment supports docker-compose.yml out of the box and executes it when you push a zip containing this fil...

Complete Guide on Setting Up ESLint & Prettier to Work With Next.js-Typescript Project (create-next-app --ts)

I started a new project with Next.js and wanted to get eslint and prettier to work with it, but the overall process turned out to be harder than I anticipated. So I decided to document the steps that I followed to help out the next person facing the ...

Complete guide on deploying a Docker application (React) to AWS Elastic Beanstalk using Docker Hub and Github Actions

I recently went through the struggle of setting up a pipeline for deploying a dockerized react app to Beanstalk and the whole process has left me with a new found respect for the magicians we sometimes take for granted, dev-ops engineers. In this ar...