https://binaryigor.com/ Some things are either 0 or I. Thoughts about managing binary machines (computers), which are controlled by the people called programmers/software engineers/coders/hackers. 2024-02-11T11:59:26.213Z Igor Roztropiński igor.thebinary@gmail.com https://binaryigor.com/htmx-and-web-components-a-perfect-match 2023-12-21T00:00:00+00:00 2023-12-21T00:00:00+00:00

Web Components are a set of browser APIs that allow us to create custom HTML elements. They are one of the major things that SPA (Single Page Application) frameworks have been giving us for a long time ... HTMX is highly interesting, useful and a promising technology. It simplifies many things and allows us to build SPA or SPA-like applications without complex tooling, dependencies, frameworks and mostly without writing application-specific JavaScript code.

https://binaryigor.com/modular-monolith-and-microservices-modularity-is-what-truly-matters 2023-11-26T00:00:00+00:00 2023-11-26T00:00:00+00:00

Modularity is a crucial concept when designing and creating software. Independent of whether our chosen architecture style is to have a single unit of deployment - Monolith or multiple units of deployment - Microservices/Services. It is a quality that should be treated completely independent of how many deployable units of software we choose to have.

https://binaryigor.com/unit-integration-e2e-contract-x-tests-what-should-we-focus-on 2023-11-04T00:00:00+00:00 2023-11-04T00:00:00+00:00

When we write software, we intend it to be used in some, usually predefined and desirable, way. All software has some specification, either explicitly described or implicitly assumed. How do we know that it (software) works? We can test it manually, using all of its features and functionalities. Unfortunately, this approach breaks down pretty fast.

https://binaryigor.com/index-a-crucial-data-structure-for-search-performance 2023-10-08T00:00:00+00:00 2023-10-08T00:00:00+00:00

There are many variations and types of it, depending on the underlying database/search engine and its purpose, but the core concept is always the same: let's have an additional data structure that points to/references the original data and makes searching fast.

https://binaryigor.com/htmx-simpler-web-based-app-or-system 2023-09-22T00:00:00+00:00 2023-09-22T00:00:00+00:00

Nowadays, when we develop web-based app/system it is most likely built as SPA, which is a single page application. We should ask, why have we done that? Why have we switched from multi page applications, where the browser supported all of these functions out of the box, functions that we now need to recreate by writing custom JavaScript code?

https://binaryigor.com/reducing-the-search-space 2023-09-09T00:00:00+00:00 2023-09-09T00:00:00+00:00

Whenever I think about optimizing certain data query, be it SQL (mostly) or NoSQL, I find it useful to think about these problems as search space problems. In other words, how much data need to be scanned/checked in order for my query to be fulfilled?