Docker offers many benefits, but it can be tricky to get started—especially when you need to deploy several components. In this article, Muhammed Ali shows how to use Docker and Docker Compose to containerize an application built with Django and React.
Generators are a powerful feature you can use to automate routine tasks in Rails—but do you know how to make your own? This article explores Rails generators in depth, including how to build a generator from scratch.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) automates extracting text from visual assets such as PDFs and images. This tutorial teaches how to use Amazon Textract and AWS Lambda to build an OCR service.
Laravel provides a file system abstraction that includes simple drivers for working with local filesystems, SFTP, and Amazon S3. This article teaches how to use Amazon S3 in Laravel.
Job queues are a powerful tool for processing background work in your Django applications. This article teaches about job queues and workers—and how to implement them with Django Q and Celery.
Accepting user input is critical to modern Rails applications, but without validations, it can cause problems. In this article, learn how to use `ActiveModel` validations to ensure the data you process is safe.
Do you want to write cleaner code? This article delves into some techniques you can use to write maintainable and easy-to-understand JavaScript.
Markdown makes it easy to add syntax to your plaintext documents and convert it to HTML later. PHP has robust support for parsing and rendering markdown—consider this your go-to guide for working with markdown in PHP.
Building stateful web applications can be tricky, unless you use a framework, of course—Django to the rescue! In this article, learn how to build a realtime chat app using Django Channels and WebSockets.
Want to deploy a Rails app with Docker and AWS, but not sure where to start? AWS Fargate simplifies the convoluted process of deploying Docker on Amazon's Elastic Container Service (ECS). It's also a good alternative to Heroku.
