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gRPC: the good, the bad and the ugly
Even today, many companies use REST as the go-to mechanism for service to service communication. This architecture is based on text-based messaging mechanisms like JSON or XML. This is good in many aspects such as, it is easily understood by developers. Since it is built on top of HTTP and...
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99 Bottles of beer
I was recently introduced me to this problem of 99 Bottles of Beer on the wall by one of my good friends at work. The problem statement is to print a folk song with the same name. That is to print: 99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles...
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ZeroPush - Simple push notifications on iOS
I was recently working on an iOS application which requires push notifications. It is a not-so-pleasurable experience for any developer to configure the backend of the application to send push notifications. The general reasons for this displeasure are due to device/token management on the server and worker processes on the...