Backend

If you began your programming journey learning either Java, C#, C++, Python, Ruby, Go, or even JavaScript, this post is here to give you a taste of C. The C language (the ancestor of all of these languages) is not an OOP language, and instead follows the procedural (aka functional) programming paradigm. What does that mean, and how does learning C help us understand OOP languages better? What benefit do OOP languages provide, and at what cost?

Many of you know that my team and I have been working hard for the last couple months on a new open source framework to enable client-side streaming from Kafka. I’m excited to announce that it’s ready!

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

In Part II, we learned how an HTTP request travels across the Internet to the correct destination server, through several layers, and returns with a response. But how does this happen reliably and securely, without becoming corrupted or being intercepted by a malicious hacker?

What exactly happens when you enter a URL in your browser? How does your browser know what content to display? To answer this question, we need to understand how the various layers of the Internet work.

ISPs, routers, gateways, LANs, HTTP, the cloud, the web… the Internet is so complex that we could spend days, months, and even years studying this stuff, and we still wouldn’t be done.