EETechy

Develop performant REST API with Node, Fastify and Objection.js

After developing for some years REST API-s with Express and Sequelize ORM I felt that it was the time to try something new. During my research for other NodeJS Web Frameworks I came across Fastify. Among other features, selling point that caught me off was their official benchmark which shows

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Create a client library for an external REST Service

When developing backend applications, in order to provide a functionality, we may need to interact with other REST services. Most popular services may have client libraries in different languages like C#, JS, Python. However, there are situations where a service provider does not offer such library for the language that

NodeJS

NodeJS Internals: Event Loop

When getting into NodeJS, the first thing that might be a surprise is its single threaded model. Nowadays most OS support multi-core CPU architecture and threading which enables developers to perform multiple operations at the same time. But does NodeJS take advantage of multi-threading or it is really single threaded?