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Note: This is part of the “Composing Software” series (now a book!) on learning functional programming and compositional software techniques in JavaScript ES6+ from the ground...

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Handle faults that might take a variable amount of time to recover from, when connecting to a remote service or resource. This can improve the stability and resiliency of an app...

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For a couple years, I’ve observed scores of developers making ill-informed claims about GraphQL. People have claimed that GraphQL allows the client to demand sorting, paging, ...

Let me preface this with an apology: this is a technology love story, and as such, it’s long, rambling, sentimental and personal. Also befitting a love story, it has a When Ha...

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Enough people have asked me about the article REST is the new SOAPthat I felt it justifies a write up. Before I get started, I want to be clear that I hold no grudge against the...

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… that which is hard and stiff is the follower of death that which is soft and yielding is the follower of life … – the Tao Te Ching, chapter 76...

The asynchronous programming topic is difficult to cover. These days, it's not just about one thing, and I'm mostly an outsider to it. However, because I deal a lot with relatio...

Correct Erlang usage mandates you do not write any kind of defensive code. This is called intentional programming. You write code for the intentional control flow path which you...

Ever wonder about that mysterious Content-Type tag? You know, the one you’re supposed to put in HTML and you never quite know what it should be? Did you ever get an email from...