The Internet is about to hit its fourth major shift in server architecture. The early days were powered by simple Perl applications. As the dotcom hit, Java application servers running on highend UNIX ...

Although Netscape released a JavaScript server shortly after JavaScript for the browser, the language didn’t really take off for back-end use until the rise of Node.js starting in 2009. Part of what ...

In server-side JavaScript, you will most likely use the fs library for dealing with the filesystem. This library is a module in Node and other platforms like Bun. So you don’t need to install it using ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from Stripe, shares his experience in building a testing system based on ...

Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for building internet applications. Brendan Eich, the language's original designer, ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Note, this article deals with client-side JavaScript. For a client and server-side JavaScript ...

What is AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)? AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a technique aimed at creating better and faster interactive web apps by combining several programming tools, ...