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Microservices vs Monoliths explained

If you’re a dev you’ve no doubt, come across people talking about monolith and microservice application architecture. Perhaps you are involved in designing a new system and have been asked to consider both architectures. The conversations are often regarding how microservices are the successor to monolith architecture, but today I’m going to try and layout why it’s not as simple as one being better than the other.

Securing your Applications in Node.js - Part 1/3

Javascript is here to stay! And the server-side Node.js project is no different 💚. This year marks the 12th (Dec 4, 2009) anniversary of the birth of Node.js, and although it may seem incredible, Javascript has been around for 25 years and the web respectively 32 years. The ecosystem of Node.js is mature and supported by an active community of library developers and authors. Being so popular, it also becomes an exciting challenge for crackers.

How to Handle the <Identifier> Expected Error in Java

By definition, an identifier in Java is a sequence of one or more characters, where the first character must be a valid first character (letter, $, _) and each subsequent character in the sequence must be a valid non-first character (letter, digit, $, _). An identifier can be used to name a package, a class, an interface, a method, a variable, etc.