Just imagine… You dedicate months of your free time building your web application, you run some tests with your friends, you write a nice brief and you launch it on HackerNews and ProductHunt. Miracle, it reaches the first page! You can already see it, fortune, fame, thousands of sign-ups, and… 503 Service Unavailable! This could be avoided with simple load testing. It allows you to generate fake traffic and simulate hundreds or thousands (or more) of users swarming your website all at once. Then, you can make sure that your servers will be able to handle the traffic that you expect to receive ..read more

Talks from the Founding Fathers of programming about the history of programming and its future, how to write clean code, test-driven development, and much more. The post The best programming videos that you should watch appeared first on MindFlash - Programming and more ..read more

Angular provides a great feature to authenticate and authorize your users, but you might not know about it. Let's see how you can leverage Angular guards for your authentication system. The post Angular authentication – Allow routes to signed in users only using guards appeared first on MindFlash - Programming and more ..read more

SQL is used everywhere. In your favorite game, in all the websites in the world, and even in your car. If you want to be a programmer, data scientist, or data analyst, here's why you have to learn it! The post Aspiring programmers, learn SQL appeared first on MindFlash - Programming and more ..read more

Regex are incredibly useful in a lot of situation, but we can use a very simple alternative in a lot of cases: PHP filters. Let's see how you can leverage those to make your code more readable and robust. The post Avoid regex in PHP 90% of the time, using filters – 1 minute tips appeared first on MindFlash - Programming and more ..read more

Amazon has 14 "values", called the Leadership Principles, that are used every day and drive mechanism on how to solve problems and how to approach new projects. In this article, I will explain all those principles, and what they represent. The post The 14 Amazon Leadership Principles explained appeared first on MindFlash - Programming and more ..read more

What programming language should I learn? What is the best way to learn programming? Do I need to be good at maths? All the questions frequently asked by beginners answered! The post Frequent questions asked by beginner programmers answered appeared first on MindFlash - Programming and more ..read more

Here are some tools that any software engineer, of any level, can leverage to improve their development speed, avoid mistakes, and have a better experience overall! The post Some of my favorite tools as a professional software developer appeared first on MindFlash - Programming and more ..read more

Practice makes perfect! Here are 7 personal project ideas to help you improve in programming, while also developing a tool that you will actually use in your daily life, and that can shine on your resume! The post Personal projects ideas to improve in programming, that are also useful appeared first on MindFlash - Programming and more ..read more

Data structures and algorithms are the 101's of programming, and all beginners should be aware of what they are and know how to leverage them. Let's talk about them. The post Data structures & algorithms, essentials for all programmers appeared first on MindFlash - Programming and more ..read more