web development - Christos Sotiriou

React and MobX-state-tree

Building a simple app with this excellent alternative to ReduxFor the past 6 years, React has been my go-to solution for developing web interfaces. Its concepts are simple to grasp, and I also love how it allows me to build my own stack around it to build the frontend interface

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How to write your own strapi upload provider

One of the features that strapi comes out of the box with, is static file uploading. Strapi comes prepackaged with a module to allow file uploading to the local disk. If you are deploying in the cloud, however, you will most probably need to upload your static files.

web development

Using Streams efficiently in NodeJS

How to download and parse a file containing a few millions of entries (around 500Mbytes) and then perform operations based on the content. How to perform efficient backpressuring by leveraging NodeJS streams

web development

Digital Experience Layer (Vodafone Greece)

The Digital eXperience Layer (DXL) is a Kubernetes middleware aimed at becoming the backbone of Vodafone Greece's digital services.

web development

Fault Tolerance for Microservices

What is it, why you should care, and how to apply it using Quarkus.

web development

Using three of the top NodeJS Web REST API Frameworks

Javascript is full of options. And over the years, I have found myself running through the same problems over and over again and solving them each time using a slightly improved method over the last one. In this post, I am sharing my experience with a set of the most popular NodeJS frameworks.

microservices

Microservices: Have you thought this through?

Regardless of the traction that microservices architectures have, there are technical areas and essential matters that you should take into consideration before developing in a microservices structure.

software engineering

A Showcase of Ambient Intelligence appliances

It’s been a while since my last blog post. Those were some very busy months. One of the highlight of those months, was work done for Atcom NEXT, a yearly event where we get to show the future of technology put some of our ideas into practice, and create

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NodeJS, Varnish + NginX

I am building a web service, and I chose NodeJS as a backend, due to its efficiency and simplicity. However, since nodejs is single thread – single process, other means of making the process more responsive under server high server load must be implemented. There are many ways of achieving

iOS

YouTruck Active iPhone, iPad, NodeJS

A complete solution that allows the user to play videos on top of YouTruck Magazine's pictures using the camera.