When you're building complex applications, one seemingly simple feature can be difficult to implement: user authentication.  Though some apps don't need it depending on their use case, many do. You might spend a ton of time building an authentication module to provide a secure experience to your users and

How to Use AWS Cognito for User Authentication

If you're exploring the world of distributed systems and real-time data pipelines, you've probably come across the concept of message queues.  There are a number of tools in this field, but RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka are two of the most popular. While both are robust and reliable, they have

How to Use RabbitMQ with NodeJS to Send and Receive Messages

Almost all apps you use today run by accessing the internet. You can hardly find an app that runs without connecting to the internet.  The internet has become an integral part of our lives, as it solves one of the most critical problems we have to handle: data transfer.

Learn Networking in Flutter By Building a Simple App

Building and managing applications on the cloud can be a daunting task. This is especially true when it comes to handling different environments, scaling, and deploying updates.  But there's a service in AWS that can simplify this. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is here to make your life easier. It provides

How to Use Elastic Beanstalk to Deploy a Node.js App

Docker is becoming increasingly popular, and many organizations have started incorporating it into their development lifecycle.  Because of this, it's an important tool to learn and can help you automate many of your tasks and workflows.  If you are new to Docker, please read my previous tutorial [/news/what-is-docker-compose-how-to-use-it/]

Docker Extensions to Help You Improve Your Workflow

Almost any app that you design or develop will use some type of navigation.  There are three types of navigation that are common to all apps – stack, tab, and drawer navigation. Flutter supports all three types, and implementing them is similar to how you do it in other

Navigation in Flutter – How to Add Stack, Tab, and Drawer Navigators to Your Apps

Imagine you have built a great product and its user base is growing rapidly. You want to scale your product to be available to people around the world. To do this, you'll need good cloud infrastructure. But managing your cloud infrastructure manually can be exhausting. You might start wondering, "how

How to Deploy a NodeJS App with AWS CloudFormation

Docker helps you setup a development environment on your machine quickly. It only takes a couple of minutes to go through the entire process.  But let's assume you were assigned on a project which requires at least 10 different services in a running state to run your project. For