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In this multi-part series, I aim to demystify the concepts behind memory management and take a deeper look at memory management in some of the modern programming languages. I hope the series would give you some insights into what is happening under the hood of these languages in terms of memory management.

In this chapter, we will look at the memory management of the for ECMAScript and WebAssembly, used by runtimes like NodeJS, Deno & Electron and web browsers like Chrome…

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In this multi-part series, I aim to demystify the concepts behind memory management and take a deeper look at memory management in some of the modern programming languages. I hope the series would give you some insights into what is happening under the hood of these languages in terms of memory management. In this chapter, we will look at the memory management of the Java Virtual Machine(JVM) used by languages like Java, Kotlin, Scala, Clojure, JRuby and so on.

If you…

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One of the questions that I get quite often after a conference talk is weirdly not about what I presented but about my Linux desktop environment. People are more curious about that beautiful distro rather than the awesome presentation I just did 😂

Not that I’m complaining, I love my desktop setup. I love it so much that I was afraid of getting a new PC when I was due for one. I was afraid that I would mess things up(I have done that many times in the past, I think Linux users can relate to me)

So I decided…

After much deliberation, I have decided to move my blogs away from Medium. I was considering setting up my own blog with Hugo but then decided to go with Dev.to. Below are the reasons why I decided to leave Medium and why I chose Dev.to.

All considerations were purely from a technical writing perspective as I was using Medium for publishing technical content.

The love-hate relationship with Medium

I loved Medium when I started writing here, reasons being;

• A simple minimal & clean UI — It still is one of the best
• Ease of authoring and publishing
• Community and visibility
• Publications
• Ease of customization

But…

Are you on the DevOps bandwagon yet? If not it's a great time to get on board. You would have heard the terminology at least once in your career and if you are wondering what it really means then let me tell you, it's all about CI/CD (continuous integration or continuous delivery) of your application, at least that is what matters the most, everything else is just noise.

Are you a developer who is annoyed with all the different tools and processes that are needed to set up your CI/CD setup, struggling with GUI tools and drowning in custom scripts…

You’ve probably heard about TypeScript. You may have heard someone claiming how great type safety is.

TypeScript is great. As someone who hates transpiling his code, I would definitely do it with TypeScript if I had to. So much has been said about TypeScript, and there isn’t really anything new that I can add. But I do believe that type safety is not all about making your code ugly with type definitions everywhere. So how can we write type-safe code without having to litter type declarations everywhere?

Type inference and advanced features like derived and dynamic types are the answer…

You can find a more up to date version of this post that uses JHipster 6 and latest Istio & Kubernetes versions here.

Istio is the coolest kid on the DevOps and Cloud block now. For those of you who aren’t following close enough — Istio is a service mesh for distributed application architectures, especially the ones that you run on the cloud with Kubernetes. Istio plays extremely nice with Kubernetes, so nice that you might think that it’s part of Kubernetes.

If you are still wondering, what the heck is a service mesh or Istio? …