Another pair of terms that are easy to confuse are parallelism and concurrency. Parallelism has to do with many workers working simultaneously. Concurrency, on the other hand, is about being able to make incremental progress on more than one task.

The terms scalability and performance are sometimes used interchangeably, but they actually mean two entirely different things. Let’s make sure we understand the difference. Performance is about how well your application runs for one user.

As an application attracts more users, the ability to scale becomes paramount. The solution often is to decouple your application and turn you monolithic codebase into multiple microservices. Why is Docker a key component in this new architecture, and what does this all even mean?

I’ve been making a career transition to software engineering for about a year and a half, starting first in a –gasp!– bootcamp and then eventually to Launch School. I’m at a good inflection point now to reflect on the journey so far, talk about the process, the challenges, the joys–and be grateful for everyone who has made this transition possible.

One of the most basic and fundamental models for application architecture is the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. Many architectures leverage this pattern – whether in a Ruby on Rails, server-side application or a React front-end interface – so it’s important to understand how, why, and so what?

The Journal of John Woolman offers an introspective look into the life of a Quaker itinerant preacher, mystic, abolitionist, and lover of humankind. In addition to providing a taste of the rich inner dialogue and vast moral, spiritual, and physical journeys of Woolman, the journal has the distinction of being the oldest book in North America that has been continuously in print since its first publication in 1774, second only to the Bible.

Written as a memoir to his son William, who at the time was the governor of New Jersey, Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography offers several valuable insights into the life of one of the most remarkable men of the 18th century.