I am a fan of Cloud services and in particular AWS Cloud. I have been working with AWS services since 2018 when I realized how powerful the AWS infrastructure is and how convenient its services are for developers, compared with equivalent services offered by traditional hosting services in data centers. …

Background We use Docker to create and manage software packages and it carries two concepts: images and containers. We define and build portable Docker images to be shipped as software solutions. Docker containers are created as writable executable layers from those images, which are then deployed using cloud service providers. Sometimes…

Background As software engineers, we have always been looking for better ways to manage our codebases. And we may need specific source control (e.g. Git) techniques to resolve new issues, specially on big software solutions with huge codebases. We are trying to answer these questions: When and how can I use…

If you have seen your CI pipeline builds failed due to security vulnerabilities in some NPM packages, you have probably tried npm audit fix and boom! No sign of those found N high severity vulnerabilities in scanned packages messages! In some cases, that command won’t solve your issue; sometimes the…

After a couple of years working with RubyOnRails — I’m a huge fan! — I thought it’s time to learn another web framework and after doing some research, I chose Elixir and Phoenix for many reasons such as performance, latency and of course Erlang VM. …

Background In my previous story, we built a simple Todo List app using Rails API as the backend and React for the frontend. In this tutorial, we are going to integrate Redux with our application in order to better manage the state of the app. …

Background Ruby On Rails is one of the popular web frameworks which enables developers to build amazing web applications. Rails 5 introduced API-only mode to create RESTful backends easily. On the client side, React has become a famous client-side framework among frontend developers, providing them with its great lifecycle methods and…