Node.js Performance Monitoring with Prometheus

This article helps you to understand what to monitor if you have a Node.js application in production, and how to use Prometheus - an open-source solution, which provides powerful data compressions and fast data querying for time series data - for Node.js monitoring.

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Researchers create temperature sensor that runs on almost no power

Researchers at UC San Diego have developed a temperature sensor that runs on tiny amounts of power -- just 113 picowatts, around 10 billion times less power than a watt. The sensor was described in a study recently published in Scientific Reports.

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Red, White, and Blue

Human-computer interactions are heavily based graphical UI elements and color plays a critical role in this. As Pierre Bonnard once said: When designing a new product, it’s often difficult to decide on the color scheme because of the infinite number of possible color combinations.

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20 Best HTML5 Game Templates of 2017

Over the past several years, we have seen HTML5 used to create many great online solutions. We have also seen it used to create some great fun! With the vanishing of Flash, HTML5 quickly became the universal platform to create browser-based games for both desktop and mobile devices.

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Australian Raspberry Pi Tutorials

There’s a new and very detailed video tutorial about the Raspberry Pi available from the Australian firm Core Electronics.  There are 30 videos and 5 chapters in total. A few of the introduction videos are short, but the detail videos range from 3 to 16 minutes.

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Simplicity Sells.

Walk into any tech startup in San Francisco and a third of the team’s feet will be clad in merino wool. Not just any merino wool, but a dark gray, ZQ-certified, merino wool of New Zealand origin. This wool could be sourced from wild sheep grazing on a rugged coastline during magic hour.

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React, Relay and GraphQL: Under the Hood of the Times Website Redesign

The New York Times website is changing, and the technology we use to run it is changing too. As the new site rolls out over the next several months, a look under the hood will reveal a number of modern technologies designed to make the site faster and easier to use — for readers, most importantly, but also for our developers.

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