Graceful shutdown with Node.js and Kubernetes

This article helps you to understand what graceful shutdown is, what are the main benefits of it and how can you set up the graceful shutdown of a Kubernetes application. We’ll discuss how you can validate and benchmark this process, and what are the most common mistakes that you should avoid.

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Q&A with Dynatrace: The Current State of Node.js in Europe and Its Growth Potential

Q) Tell us a little bit more about what your company does? Dynatrace is the innovator behind the industry’s premier Digital Performance Monitoring Solution, making real-time information about digital performance visible and actionable for everyone across business and IT.

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Tesla prestes a chegar a Portugal

Parece que Elon Musk não se esqueceu da promessa feita aos fãs da Tesla em Portugal em Maio, e está para breve a chegada da marca oficialmente ao nosso país.

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How & Why to Use the Kanban Methodology for Software Development

You’ve probably heard of the Kanban project management methodology, but you may not know a lot about it. What are the differences between Kanban and other agile methodologies like Scrum, and instruments like the Gantt chart? What is the Kanban methodology used for?

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Firebase, Tone.js, and Device Orientation

This recent CodePen Chicago meetup had a Halloween theme. I had an idea to dive into Firebase and create a multi-device musical performance using Tone.js and meetup participants' cell phones.

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Visual Debugging with ES6 and Node.js

We’ve been working with Node.js for several years at Good Eggs and love the JavaScript ecosystem, particularly the advancement of the language itself with ECMAScript 6.

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Building Node-based APIs with the LoopBack Framework

APIs are increasingly becoming one of the most important aspects of development, no matter what platform you choose. Whether you’re building an API for public consumption or simply creating the back end for your mobile application, being able to rapidly set up and design APIs can be a great benefit for developers.

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Using Yarn with Docker

Facebook recently released Yarn, a new Node.js package manager built on top of the npm registry, massively reducing install times and shipping a deterministic build out of the box. Determinism has always been a problem with npm, and solutions like npm shrinkwrap are not working well. This makes hard to use a npm-based system for multiple developers and on continuous integration. Also, npm slowness in case of complex package.json files causes long build times, representing a serious blocker when using Docker for local development.

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Ambilight com Raspberry Pi para qualquer fonte HDMI

O sistema Ambilight da Philips é um dos mais engraçados que se pode ter num televisor, e há inúmeros projectos na web que nos explicam como recriar esse efeito.

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ES6 Template Strings, the Handlebars killer?

I had a recent discussion with one of the awesome developers at the FT - @bjfletcher. We were looking at how viable it would be to replace a templating language, like Handlebars with ES6 Template Literals, in some manner.

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Why I think Elm is the Future of Front End Development

Elm is a ML-style functional language with enforced immutability that compiles down to optimized JavaScript. It solves a lot of problems that developers writing JavaScript end up facing in a day-to-day workflow. I believe that it is going to be the future of front end development.

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Tesla unveils its solar roof and Powerwall 2

At Universal Studios in Los Angeles Tesla CEO Elon Musk showed off the company's solar roof-top panels, new $5,500 Powerwall 2 high-capacity residential battery pack and Powerpack 2 for businesses. Musk and company have been teasing the photovoltaic cell-embedded rooftop panels for a few weeks.

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Estabilização de imagem posta à prova em bike trail

Da próxima vez que alguém vos disser que os sistemas de estabilização de imagem não são assim tão importantes, nada como lhes mostrarem este exemplo de um vídeo captado por um ciclista num trilho de montanha.

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Tesla Powerpack 2 duplica a densidade energética

O futuro 100% eléctrico com que todos sonhamos vai obrigar a repensar a infraestrutura de distribuição e geração de energia, e a Tesla quer estar na linha da frente com os produtos necessários para o permitir, como é o caso do seu Powerkpack, que passa a ter o dobro da densidade de energia.

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Reactive FormGroup validation with AbstractControl in Angular 2

Validation in Angular 2, various approaches, various APIs to use. We’re going to use AbstractControl to learn how to validate a particular FormGroup.

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Avoid yarn for packages for now and fully enjoy its benefits for application development

The npm CLI uses the opt-in feature shrinkwrap to allow it’s users to lock down the exact versions of the dependencies installed into the node_modules folder. A lot of people think this is a useful thing, so dependency installs become repeatable.

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Top 5 Programming Fonts

Everyone has their ideal development setup, and many have spent countless hours customizing it to perfectly suit their needs. Outside of a color scheme, the next typical change is the font in use and every year new fonts are introduced giving us more to choose from than ever before.

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Bring Your Android App to Chromebooks

Ask any developer to name the biggest challenge of developing for Android, and chances are they’re going to say fragmentation. Creating an app that’s flexible enough to run across the huge range of devices that fall under the ‘Android’ banner is a huge headache that most Android developers have experienced at some point.

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Get An Email Alert When A Github Repository Has A New Release

Github is home to some truly awesome projects. If you’re a developer, you can follow projects and contribute to their development. There’s quite a bit of activity that goes on if a project is in active development.

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WTF is machine learning?

While the number of headlines about machine learning might lead one to think that we just discovered something profoundly new, the reality is that the technology is nearly as old as computing.

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Introducing Bootcards: Bootstrap Cards Made Easy

Bootcards is a UI framework for card interfaces. Like its name says, it is based on the Bootstrap framework and it has a dual-pane capability for both desktop and mobile. These days information is everywhere and sometimes the sheer amount of it can confuse us.

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How to Create an Android Chat App Using Firebase

With Firebase, creating real-time social applications is a walk in the park. And the best thing about it: you don't have to write a single line of server-side code. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to leverage Firebase UI to create a group chat app you can share with your friends.

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Apple's new MacBook Pro is slim, trim and has a stunning screen

We knew it was coming, and now it's here: Apple's newest MacBook Pro. It's thinner, it's lighter and it comes with a better screen than the Pros of yesteryear.

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Angular 2 Transclusion using ng-content

Angular 2 is the shiny new framework that comes with a lot of new concepts. Learn all the great new features. Wait a minute... What is transclusion?

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An argument against REST in microservices

Rest has become a widely accepted standard for API’s.  There are a few reasons for this, it is easy to follow, works very much like a web browser does, and as such uses common tools to digest the service.

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Webpack or Browserify & Gulp: Which Is Better?

As web applications grow increasingly complex, making your web app scalable becomes of the utmost importance. Whereas in the past writing ad-hoc JavaScript and jQuery would suffice, nowadays building a web app requires a much greater degree of discipline and formal software development practices, such as: Unit tests to ensure modifications to your code don’t break existing functionality, Linting to ensure consistent coding style free of errors, Production builds that differ from development builds.

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Uber’s Self-Driving Truck Makes Its First Delivery: 50,000 Beers

Walt Martin is kneeling, legs folded behind him, butt resting on his heels. “I’ve got to practice my yoga,” he says, clearly joking. Never mind that we’re in the cab of an 18-wheeler cruising through Colorado at 55 mph and Martin was, until a moment ago, the guy at the wheel.

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Apple unveils a thinner MacBook Pro with an OLED 'Touch Bar'

Apple's long-awaited MacBook Pro refresh is finally here and it's... well, pretty much what we expected. That's Apple's fault, partially, after a recent macOS update revealed details about the laptop's OLED touch strip -- now known as the "Touch Bar" -- and Touch ID.

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stdlib: Create Scalable Node.js Microservices in a Flash

Hey everyone - today I have the honor of walking you through using the brand new service registry for microservices, stdlib. You can also check out stdlib on GitHub, which is the open source project we'll be using to generate service scaffolding and take care of package management.

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Overview of JavaScript ES6 features (a.k.a ECMAScript 6 and ES2015+)

JavaScript has changed quite a bit in the last years. These are 12 new features that you can start using today! The new additions to the language are called ECMAScript 6. It is also referred as ES6 or ES2015+.

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Wi-Fi Alliance certifica finalmente o WiGig

Há anos que ouvimos falar das promessas do WiGig, mas parece que finalmente vamos começar a ver os benefícios do 802.11ad em breve, e das suas velocidades multi-gigabit. O consórcio Wi-Fi Alliance lançou finalmente um programa de certificação para o WiGig (202.

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It’s Game Time for the Web

Just as he sciences the shit out of the mobile devices that our users have and their constraints, we need to do the same as web developers on doing everything that we can to build experiences that work.

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Watch Microsoft's Surface event in 10 minutes

Microsoft had no shortage of announcements at its big Surface event. The Surface Studio all-in-one was undoubtedly the centerpiece, but the tech pioneer also unveiled a supercharged Surface Book, low-cost third-party VR headsets, the art-oriented Surface Dial accessory and a major Windows 10 update that's focused on creators.

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JavaScript for Web Designers: DOM Scripting

Before we do anything with a page, you and I need to have a talk about something very important: the Document Object Model. There are two purposes to the DOM: providing JavaScript with a map of all the elements on our page, and providing us with a set of methods for accessing those elements, their attributes, and their contents.

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Get Started With React Native Layouts

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to lay out React Native apps and how to implement layouts commonly used in apps. This includes the Stack Layout, Grid Layout, and Absolute Layout.

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Is Model-View-Controller dead on the front end?

More and more front-end developers are adopting unidirectional architectures. So what’s the future for the classic Model-View-Controller (MVC) approach? In order to understand how we got to this point, let’s first review the evolution of front-end architecture.

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Apple confirma MacBooks com Touch ID e barra touch OLED

A Apple vai revelar os seus novos Macs amanhã, mas uma coisa parece ficar confirmada desde já: a presença da barra OLED sensível ao toque a substituir as teclas de função, e também um sensor Touch ID.

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Freebie: 5 Fantastic Bootstrap Footers

Last time we shared with you a collection of 5 Free Bootstrap 3 Headers that can be used to kick-start any new project. Today we’ve got for you more awesome freebies and this time they are 5 ready-to-use footers templates.

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Getting Started With Paper.js: Animation and Images

So far in this series, I have covered projects and items, paths and geometry, and user interaction in Paper.js. The library also allows you to animate various items in your projects. If you combine it with the ability to act based on user input, you can create some really cool effects.

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The 22 rules of storytelling, according to Pixar

On Twitter, Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coats has compiled nuggets of narrative wisdom she’s received working for the animation studio over the years.

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MacBook Pro leak reveals an OLED touch strip and Touch ID

Cat's out of the bag, it seems. Remember that macOS Sierra update that arrived on October 24th? It turns out that the code contains hidden images of the widely rumored next-generation MacBook Pro, and they're revealing enough to confirm more than a few details.

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Top Web Apps Designed to Smooth Your Design Workflow

The web apps below in combination with these productivity tips will help you improve your workflow. So here they are: Clarify Expected Outcomes. Just as can often be more than a single solution to an ambiguous requirement, expectations that are not put forth clearly can lead to unexpected or unintended results.

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Tutorial: Get Started with AngularJS, Spring Boot, and Stormpath

Last year, Micah Silverman wrote about integrating Spring Boot, Spring Security, and Stormpath. Today, I’m going to take you on a similar journey, except this time you’ll be using AngularJS and Stormpath’s AngularJS SDK for the UI.

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Xiaomi's Mi MIX is all about its gorgeous edge-to-edge display

We're used to surprise announcements at Xiaomi events, but this time, it's a rather special one. After showing off the Mi Note 2, the company unveiled the Mi MIX "concept phone" -- one that's headlining with a cool 6.

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Reducing Visual Noise for a Better User Experience

We understood that the Person Profile had become difficult to scan, but we weren’t sure why. As a people search platform, this is obviously an important page for Spokeo to get right.

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Simple Use of Components in Angular 2 with V 2.0.0

As the Angular team is trying to improve the functionality of the framework, a few things have changed as of recent! This article might help people looking to easily use components in their app.

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Xiaomi Mi Note 2 chega com ecrã curvo

Quem não tiver ficado fascinado com o futurista Mi Mix poderá ficar mais tentado em optar pelo novo Mi Note 2 da Xiaomi, que chega mesmo a tempo de se aproveitar do desaire do Galaxy Note 7.

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Solving Callback Problems With Async

When we first start programming, we learn that a block of code executes from the top to the bottom. This is synchronous programming: each operation is completed before the next begins.

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XIAOMI Mi4C 4G por apenas 108€

Comprar um smartphone pode ser uma dor de cabeça. Hoje em dia há soluções para todos os gostos , feitios e carteiras, pelo que há mesmo só que saber escolher o que se pretende. A Xiaomi é conhecida por ter smartphones com boa qualidade e preço altamente competitivo.

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Everything We Know About the Cyber Attack That Crippled America's Internet

Friday’s DDoS attack on Dyn’s domain name servers was unprecedented. The attack utilized a botnet made up of “internet of things” (IoT) devices (think: smart TVs, DVRs, and internet-connected cameras) to take down a major piece of internet infrastructure.

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