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Since it was created by Facebook in 2012 and made publicly available in 2015, GarphQL has changed everything about how we fetch data from servers for our front-end apps. Most front-end clients typically use REST APIs to retrieve data from the server, this includes mobile apps for platforms like Android, iOS, and Flutter, as well as JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular, Vue, and Next. A huge advantage of GraphQL is that it enables front-end clients to request only the API they require.

Logging is a crucial practice that helps developers monitor, debug, and maintain their applications. Python, a versatile and widely used programming language, provides a comprehensive logging module that makes it easy to integrate logging into your applications. This post introduces Python logging, covering the basics, various logging levels, practical implementations, and more.

A sub-discipline of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) focuses on the development of algorithms to build systems capable of learning from, and making decisions based on, data. In iOS development, ML allows us to create applications that can identify patterns and make predictions, adapting a user’s experience by learning from their behaviour.

Started in 2009 as a research project at UC Berkeley, Apache Spark transformed how data scientists and engineers work with large data sets, empowering countless organizations to accelerate time-to-value for their analytics activities. Apache Spark is now the most popular engine for distributed data processing at scale, with thousands of companies (including 80% of the Fortune 500) using Spark to support their big data analytics initiatives.

In the last article, we gave a general introduction to using Swift for backend development. We discussed its advantages: its robustness, stability and, above all, its simplicity. Now we’re going to drill a little deeper, and provide some best practices that will help you in your day-to-day work. Our work today will focus on Vapor, an open-source web framework that provides a robust foundation for websites, APIs and Cloud projects.

Swift is a powerful open source programming language created by Apple in 2014 for the iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS, known for its modern syntax, safety features and fast performance. Designed as a successor to Objective C, Swift has become a hugely popular choice for frontend and mobile app development, and it’s also shaping up to be an excellent choice for server-side development.

In today’s hyper-connected world, systems are more intertwined and complex than ever. Myriad data sources including applications, databases, network and IoT devices continuously generate vast amounts of data, capturing every event and interaction. Imagine harnessing this data–login logs, firewall logs, IPS logs, web logins–aggregating it, and analyzing it to create a holistic view of your entire infrastructure.

As programmers we know that, despite our best efforts, we’ll never be able to completely eliminate errors from our apps. The sheer complexity of modern apps, not least the reliance on dynamic (often third-party) inputs, means errors are inevitable and error handling (exception handling) is crucial to user experience.

Django is designed to be secure by default, which means that its got a number of featured out of the box to protect against common Web vulnerabilities, including SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and cross-site request forgery (CSRF). Its extensive documentation, active community, and strong ecosystem of reusable apps and libraries make it a common choice for developers looking to create scalable and maintainable Web applications.