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URL Shortener in High Throughput Service

Sun, 15 May 2022 01:00:00 +0530

Background

A Client has E-commerce Application consisting of services aimed at specific domains of business functionality it serves. One of these services is responsible for accepting the order, authenticating it and forwarding it for further processing in terms of inventory checks, payment and so on. For Authentication, this service sends SMS to Customer’s Mobile number (and e-mail id) and customer is supposed to confirm this order placement by means of entering Code received in it. This code is valid for a short duration.

Upgrading API: Learnings

Sat, 15 May 2021 01:00:00 +0530

Introduction

One of the design considerations stressed upon by Jeffrey richter about APIs (Read more here) is that “API is expected to be stable over long period of time”. Recently,for a .NET based project, we decided to upgrade some of the ASMX (legacy SOAP based approach) based APIs and were immediately reminded by Customer(s) to avoid any kind of impact on existing users.

This means that upgrade must be done keeping in mind,

Is WebAssembly future of Web Development

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 10:25:04 +0530

Over the last many years, de-facto language of the Web (specifically front-end) has been Javascript (and variants like Typescript, ECMAScript versions and so on). The Web development has been revolving around HTML+CSS+Javascript trio. It all started with support for Javascript in browsers, followed by addition of XMLHTTP API, Rich DOM Manipulation Support in Javascript. To induce order and apply patterns to Javascript’s usage in browsers, numerous frameworks and libraries were introduced like React and Vue among others. To begin with, The target used to be browsers on Large Devices like Desktop & Laptops. However, soon all sorts of devices were targetted with advent of Responsive and Progressive CSS+Javascript libraries eg. Bootstrap. Offline Support soon came in ref: Electron and Progressive Web Applications.