A “microservices architecture” is an approach to developing a software application as a series of small services, each running autonomously and communicating with each other, for example, through HTTP requests to their APIs. Typically, there are a minimum number of services that handle things common to others (such as database…

When we are designing, it may be customary to want to place a large amount of content in the smallest possible space. We want to give our visitors a lot of information at a glance, with hardly any blank spaces in our design. But this can become counterproductive, and supersaturation…

Documenting, a task that is perceived as “expensive” but that in the long term is profitable. — One of the main reasons why documenting is a task that is perceived as “expensive” in time and effort lies in our concept of generating it. This is linked to bad experiences we may have suffered when creating or consuming it. When we think about documentation, we associate in our…

Before, the big ones ate the little ones. Now, the fast eat the slow ones. So get ready to run. — The concept of productivity is being taken to an extreme that I don’t like at all. I agree that time is very valuable and we should not waste it. …

SOAP vs REST is a comparison that many programmers or even software architects usually ask themselves when developing APIs for their systems, but what is really the difference between them? Is it that one is superior to the other? Could it be that REST came to replace SOAP? …

When we are stuck with a problem, a usual strategy is to start over from scratch. Redoing the problem from the beginning allows us to avoid possible previous errors that may have gone unnoticed and have a better perspective of how and why the problem occurs. In the field of…

What is REST? REST, REpresentational State Transfer, is a type of web development architecture that is fully supported by the HTTP standard. REST allows us to create services and applications that can be used by any device or client that understands HTTP, so it is incredibly simpler and more conventional than other alternatives…

The vagueness of the “it doesn’t work” report means less than nothing — the issue could be literally anything — the website could be down, the signup screen could be broken, the app could unwittingly be taking naked selfies of the user and e-mailing it to all their friends —…

The loading speed of a website has become one of the most important factors in recent years in web design and, although there are many elements that can be optimized to lighten the total weight of downloaded files, in this article we are going to focus on optimizing CSS files…