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WTF is this cookie policy alerts, third pary cookies on websites, etc

· 4 min read
D Balaji
Lead Design Technologist

website cookies

A cookie is a simple and important feature in frontend engineering. In fact, without cookies, most web apps may not be able to identify you. For instance, your Gmail won't remember you. You have to enter login and password again. If cookies are a must-have, why are websites asking for permission about cookie usage? Let's find out below.

Learning npm and apt package manager commands at once

· 3 min read
D Balaji
Lead Design Technologist

gift packages

You cannot be a professional developer without an encounter with Unix/Linux systems. Linux is the preferred operating system of choice for cloud machines. SSH is a magical technology to control the cloud machine without making a trip to the data center. All said but how to install and manage software on the Linux operating systems? The answer is Package Managers.

10 inspiring thoughts from developers guide book by John Somnez

· 6 min read
D Balaji
Lead Design Technologist

book praise

John somnez is the software developer guru who writes books and creates content for other developers. He is prolific, brilliant, and healthy at the same time. Needless to say, he is someone who can work 18 hours a day for years. His book is like Gita for developers. Here are 10 inspiring ideas that caught my attention. The complete software developers career guide is a fantastic read.

Simple feature switch ReactJS component in 5 lines of code

· 3 min read
D Balaji
Lead Design Technologist

React component code

Let us say your product is planning to introduce an experimental feature. Your customer may or may not like the feature. In this case, you may have to turn off the feature for some users & turn it on for the rest. This is called A/B testing. But how to build components to conditional render the content. We can build feature-switch components.

Cache busting GET calls with cache-control headers

· 7 min read
D Balaji
Lead Design Technologist

cache calls

One of the performance optimization techniques is to serve data from the cache and lookup for the network if the cache fails. It's called cache first then network strategy. Life moves fast and if the API has to get updated information, it's impossible because we are reading the cache always. Is there a way to bypass cache in this setup? Yes, it's cache-control headers.