Engineering Insights

Using SvelteKit 1.0 on Vercel

is a new framework for building web applications that is gaining popularity among developers for its simplicity and performance. Built on top of Svelte (like Next.js for React), SvelteKit simplifies creating and deploying web applications. Server-side rendering, routing, code-splitting, and adapters for different serverless platforms are just a few of its out-of-the-box features.SvelteKit or continue reading to learn about the improvements to the framework in the past year and the benefits of d

Temporal workflows at scale: Part 2 — Sharding in production

In the previous post of this two-part series, we familiarize ourselves with Temporal, a deterministic workflow processing framework that lets you run stateful workflows in a more fault-tolerant way. One of the most significant decisions Temporal users make when running Temporal in production is determining the appropriate persistence layer. People often assume that they can only scale in Temporal by using a No-SQL option like Cassandra. This post will address why PlanetScale doesn't require you

Building a REST API with NestJS and Prisma: Error Handling

In this tutorial, you will implement error handling in a NestJS application. You will learn two ways to handle errors: directly in your application code and by creating an exception filter.

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Node.js 16.19.0 (LTS)

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From idea to 100 million views: Building a viral application for your personal music festival

allows users to quickly create a festival poster from their top Spotify, Apple Music, and Last.fm artists. , a Computer Science student at USC, used Next.js and Vercel to launch Instafest fast and scale to , gaining millions of users and going viral on Twitter, TikTok, and more.InstafestAnshay Saboo500,000 new users per hour Read more

Rails’ safety mechanisms

Companies build products with Ruby on Rails because of its focus on efficiency. The framework comes with a set of defaults that allows you to focus on building, not configuring. Defaults can have limits. We can often find ourselves with paper cuts if we’re not careful. Fear not! Rails has conventions for this, too. Let’s look at some tools the framework gives us to protect ourselves. Mass assignment protection in Rails One of the first things Rails developers learn is handling form parameters. T