If you don’t have time to read the whole story, just browse to the GitHub repository below👇🏻 react-dynamic-charts Edit descriptiondsternlicht.github.io Background A few months ago, we had a global company summit at the beautiful island of Tenerife. …

A few weeks ago I had the privilege to talk in one of the biggest dev conferences in Israel - “Reversim Summit”. In this talk (Hebrew), I covered an open source project I’ve been working on in the past 2 years called RESTool, reviewed the existing alternatives, and mentioned how…

Recently, I left my job position at Microsoft, and re-joined Outbrain. Moving between companies isn’t always easy, as there’s not necessarily a consistency between technologies and libraries each company uses for developing their front end projects. …

If you ever developed an app that had any kind of business model you probably needed to support payments from PayPal. Using PayPal as a platform to accept payments and managing subscriptions is a great solution that as easy as opening PayPal account, creating payment buttons, and adding a few…

4 years ago I started a project called Brackets Ninja which is a tool for managing tournament and creating brackets online. One of the main challenges I had while I developed this project was to create an algorithm that given a number of participants — knows to create a tree…

A few weeks ago, I wrote about Chatilyzer — a new side project I’ve been working on in past month. A quick overview about the app and the app’s flow: Chatilyzer allows you to get statistics about your WhatsApp chats. In order the app to work, you need to upload…

Once in while I’m having the “Side Project Fever” where I have an idea of a cool project and can’t stop coding until it’s out. This time, the fever brought me to develop Chatilyzer. Chati-what? Chatilyzer is a WhatsApp group analyzer and visualyzer. We’re all using WhatsApp everyday, and we’re part…

Let’s face it. If there’s one word that product managers like to say, and give us (all developers) a goosebumps the second we hear it, is “Let’s add LOCALIZATION support” (or “Let’s A/B test it”, or “MVP”, well, they say a lot of scary things…). Although adding the support…

From a 673ms average response time and uncountable errors, to 29ms response time and 0 errors. That’s the immediate result of adding a cache mechanism to my NodeJS service. In this article I’m going to share some of the techniques I used to achieve that. Cache is great for improving…