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Logging the right way : A comprehensive approach
Backend

Logging the right way : A comprehensive approach

This article covers the significance and advantages of logging, an essential checklist for logging best practices, the minimum data required for logs, and an overview of different types of logs, along with their formats.

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Ibukun oluwaseyi

4/6/2025

Building a Validator System in Rust
Backend

Building a Validator System in Rust

In this article, we'll explore how to build a type-safe and flexible validator system in Rust, taking cues from DRF's elegant design. We'll start with a basic structure and progressively enhance it to create a more practical and feature-rich solution.

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Ugochukwu Chizaram Omumusinachi

4/9/2025

Are async blocks dead? Introducing  async closures (rust 1.85)
Rust

Are async blocks dead? Introducing async closures (rust 1.85)

We just saw the official release of Rust's 1.85 version, and a lot of wow changes came with it, one of them being async closures. This new feature has caused a lively debate in the Rust community: Are async blocks, a staple of Rust’s async ecosystem, now obsolete? Are they useless?

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Ugochukwu Chizaram Omumusinachi

3/12/2025

Designing a Food Menu App in Python
Backend Projects

Designing a Food Menu App in Python

This article provides a detailed guide on designing such a system using a relational database model. We’ll explore the relationships between products, modifiers, and modifier groups and demonstrate how to implement this design using SQLAlchemy and SQLModel, two powerful Python libraries for database management.

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Emmanuel Ogbiyoyo

3/1/2025

3 Powerful Features in Rust's Reqwest Library
Rust

3 Powerful Features in Rust's Reqwest Library

This crate is widely used to make HTTP requests in Rust, and in this article we will discuss three impressive additions in this crate, namely: JSON handling, multipart forms, and streaming capabilities

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Ugochukwu Chizaram Omumusinachi

2/22/2025

Building a Simple RAG System Application with Rust
Rust

Building a Simple RAG System Application with Rust

In this tutorial, we will be building a simple Chatbot to query, your documents on your local machine, using GEMINI for embeddings. Tauri for app development and Rig as our SDK for Gemini.

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Ugochukwu Chizaram Omumusinachi

2/21/2025

Asynchronous Recursion In rust
Rust

Asynchronous Recursion In rust

However, unlike in languages like Python or JavaScript, building recursive functions can be more challenging due to Rust’s strict memory safety guarantees. This is even more apparent when trying to make recursion asynchronous.

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Ugochukwu Chizaram Omumusinachi

2/21/2025

ACID Compliance in Databases: A Deep Dive into Transaction Integrity
Backend

ACID Compliance in Databases: A Deep Dive into Transaction Integrity

This article breaks down what ACID compliance is, why it matters, and how to implement it effectively in your database systems.

SO

Solomon Eseme

2/8/2025

When to use Arrays and Vectors in Rust — Array[] vs Vectors<>
Backend

When to use Arrays and Vectors in Rust — Array[] vs Vectors<>

This article is not about Data Structures in general so I won’t go into details, but all you have to know is Dynamic arrays are simply static arrays with a bunch of wrappers to handle fluidity, in rust this wrapper is called a Vector.

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Ugochukwu Chizaram Omumusinachi

1/30/2025

GraphQL vs REST in Backend Development
Backend

GraphQL vs REST in Backend Development

To understand what REST and GraphQL are, we would have to dive into the world of APIs which stands for Application Programming Interfaces.

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Amanda Ene Adoyi

1/21/2025

5 Advanced Backend Projects Ideas to Boost Your Portfolio (2025)
Backend

5 Advanced Backend Projects Ideas to Boost Your Portfolio (2025)

Here are the top 5 of the best backend projects you can work on to improve both your project portfolio and to learn&nbsp;backend engineering.

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Solomon Eseme

1/21/2025

Spring Core vs. Spring Boot: Everything You Need to Know
Backend

Spring Core vs. Spring Boot: Everything You Need to Know

Spring Core and Spring Boot are key components of the Spring Framework. While Spring Core provides the foundational tools for Java application development, Spring Boot simplifies the process by offering pre-configured setups. Understanding their differences helps developers choose the right tool for building efficient, scalable, and modern applications.

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Ayush Shrivastava

1/16/2025

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