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How to get started with NodeJS & Express

Oct 5, 20203 min read 72 views

Hi guys, this is a short tutorial for getting an ExpressJS web server up and running. Please note that this tutorial is made with simplicity in mind. For in-depth information, visit the respective NodeJS and express documentation. This tutorial is ba...

Load Balancing, Geo DNS, or Anycast?

Sep 30, 20203 min read 174 views

Currently, Gentlent is built on a proprietary web server that was built with scalability in mind. We always asked ourselves one question: How do we improve performance? 1. Load Balancing We started out with thinking about load balancers and DNS round...

Google Search A/B Tests Removal of URL Schemes (e.g. http://)

Feb 12, 2020109 views

Today, I opened a new tab to search for something on Google and realized something was missing. The scheme was removed from the results. Did they just removed HTTPS? No. Thinking Google removed https:// from the search only, I tried looking up an ht...

Be careful using example domains.

Feb 2, 2020115 views

Every developer used an example domain before. Whether it was one of IANA's official example TLDs (e.g. example.com, example.org), private ones (e.g. yourname.xyz) or even whole suffixes (e.g. .local, .dev). Some domains are protected by IANA for us...

How I started my own dev blog in minutes.

Jan 23, 2020183 views

It all starts with the decision to start writing content. Not just any content, but paragraphs of my own thoughts and decisions to share with the world. The war between Wordpress & co. There are lots of self-hosted blogging software. Wordpress, Ghos...