Alvin Lee

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Node.js Walkthrough: Build a Simple Event-Driven Application With Kafka

Build a real-time event-driven app with Node.js and Kafka on Heroku. Follow this step-by-step guide to set up, deploy, and manage your application efficiently.

June 27, 2024

· 11,235 Views · 1 Like

Take Your First Steps for Building on LLMs With Google Gemini

Learn to build an LLM application using the Google Gemini API and deploy it to Heroku. This guide walks you through setup, code, and deployment step-by-step.

June 5, 2024

· 4,187 Views · 2 Likes

I Built an App With Remix in 30 Minutes

Discover how to build and deploy a fast Remix app in under 30 minutes. Learn about Remix's features and quick Heroku deployment in this hands-on guide.

May 23, 2024

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How You Can Use Logs To Feed Security

Learn how to leverage logs with tools and AI to enhance security, detect threats, manage costs, and capture all your data for proactive threat prevention.

May 14, 2024

· 3,062 Views · 2 Likes

How To Implement RAG: A Simple Walkthrough

Learn how to enhance your LLMs with retrieval-augmented generation, using LlamaIndex and LangChain for data context, deploying your application to Heroku.

April 8, 2024

· 1,601 Views · 2 Likes

I Built My First Go Application and Deployed It to Heroku

In this tutorial, we'll learn to build and deploy a Go web service to Heroku, showcasing the ease of use, speed, and power of Golang for modern web services.

March 25, 2024

· 18,437 Views · 1 Like

LangChain, Python, and Heroku

In this tutorial, learn how to build and deploy LLM-based applications with ease using LangChain, Python, and Heroku for streamlined development and deployment.

March 18, 2024

· 3,513 Views · 3 Likes

Understanding the New SEC Rules for Disclosing Cybersecurity Incidents

… and what this means for your incident detection and response.

December 2, 2023

· 4,195 Views · 4 Likes

Be a Better Team Player

Many API developers are familiar with Postman. Though I use it extensively for solo dev work, we know what Postman brings to the table for team API development.

November 21, 2023

· 3,610 Views · 3 Likes

Moving To Capability-Based Security With Flow: A Critical Evolution in Blockchain Security

Walk through capability-access control, part of the Flow blockchain, which facilitates selective access to resources, decentralizing large attack vectors.

November 10, 2023

· 2,862 Views · 1 Like

How To Deploy Apache Kafka With Kubernetes

Get started with Kafka by deploying with Kubernetes locally before moving to the cloud.

Updated October 30, 2023

· 37,619 Views · 8 Likes

Path-Based Routing in Render With Kong API Gateway

When deploying microservices to Render, use path-based routing as a workaround to leverage an API gateway.

Updated October 27, 2023

· 14,315 Views · 5 Likes

A Better Web3 Experience: Account Abstraction From Flow (Part 2)

Walletless dApps from Flow use account abstraction to improve the web3 user experience. In part two, we walk through how to build the front end for this dApp.

September 20, 2023

· 3,536 Views · 2 Likes

A Better Web3 Experience: Account Abstraction From Flow (Part 1)

Walletless dApps from Flow use account abstraction to improve the web3 user experience. In part one, we walk through how to build the backend for this dApp.

September 15, 2023

· 3,012 Views · 2 Likes

Extracting Maximum Value From Logs

Logging for observability across languages, frameworks, and packages is challenging. A thoughtful approach to log design, metrics, and retention will help.

August 25, 2023

· 5,770 Views · 4 Likes

Ethereum and EVM Traces Explained

Understanding Ethereum transactions on your smart contracts is limited. EVM traces from Infura's Trace API give you information for debugging and analysis.

June 9, 2023

· 3,413 Views · 1 Like

Improve Your Data Solution Efficiency With Stream Processing

Today's data solutions—handling myriad data sources and massive data volume—are expensive. Stream processing reduces costs and brings real-time scalability.

May 16, 2023

· 1,850 Views · 1 Like

From Zero to Hero: Learning Web3 With Infura and Python

Starting out with web3 development can be daunting, but using Python and the Infura API can take the edge off.

April 17, 2023

· 4,896 Views · 5 Likes

How To Build for Payment Processing Resiliency

Can your business application handle a payment processor going down? How might you build resiliency while maintaining PCI compliance?

April 12, 2023

· 4,244 Views · 5 Likes

How To Create a Viewer for Digital Collectibles With Infura’s New API

Viewing and managing digital collectibles (NFTs) can be a challenge for developers. In this tutorial, walk through Infura's new API for viewing NFTs.

March 28, 2023

· 1,951 Views · 2 Likes

Reduce Data Breaches by Adding a Data Privacy Vault to Your HealthTech App Architecture

With healthcare apps and wearables that gather customer PHI, app developers need a data privacy vault to ensure HIPAA compliance and build customer trust.

February 1, 2023

· 2,637 Views · 1 Like

A Guide To Successful DevOps in Web3

DevOps has revolutionized Web2 development. Now, these new tools are bringing DevOps to Web3—for testing, building, CI/CD, monitoring, planning, and feedback.

January 14, 2023

· 6,260 Views · 5 Likes

How To Build a DAO With Truffle

Follow a tutorial to learn how to build a fully functional, on-chain governance decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) with Ganache and the Truffle Suite.

December 16, 2022

· 2,737 Views · 2 Likes

Two Ways to Debug With Render

When you use Render to deploy your Node.js application with Postgres database, you can debug easily with integrated tools like Datadog and Log Streams.

December 14, 2022

· 3,740 Views · 1 Like

Keeping Sensitive Data Out of Your Logs

Protecting your user's PII and PHI requires an intentional approach and the use of a data privacy vault with API.

October 25, 2022

· 5,439 Views · 2 Likes

Building an IoT Application Using an HTTP API

Play around with the M5Stack, an API for the New York City MTA, and Gravitee Designer.

July 26, 2022

· 5,060 Views · 3 Likes

How to Build a Simple CLI With Oclif

Not a fan of shell scripting? Use Oclif to build CLI tools with Node.js!

June 24, 2022

· 6,114 Views · 3 Likes

Create a Self-Service Customer Support Chatbot Without Code

This tutorial walks through how to build a smart chatbot to handle customer service, using low-code and no-code solutions from platforms like Infobip Answers.

Updated May 19, 2022

· 4,746 Views · 4 Likes

Scheduled Cron Jobs With Render

Developers who use cloud hosting platforms may also need cron jobs for scheduling background tasks. This tutorial walks through how to use Render to do it all.

March 28, 2022

· 4,490 Views · 3 Likes

The Rise of the Data Reliability Engineer

With ever-growing complexity in the data driving today's dashboards and learning models, maintaining data quality and availability depends on the DRE.

March 15, 2022

· 7,667 Views · 7 Likes

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