Summary: ORM tools like Objection.js allow you to write database transactions in code. This allows code logic to exist between multiple queries of a transaction. But this has the potential of slowing down the database significantly. Transactions Via ORM Frameworks like Objection.js allow us to start transactions via the code…

If you’re working in software or any form of engineering, the engineering mindset is more important than the knowledge of any particular technology. But what exactly is engineering mindset? It is hard to explain. It’s the kind of thing you can recognise when you see it in someone, but difficult…

In unit tests, there are times where we only want to match 4–5 properties of an Object, and don’t really care about the others, or can’t control them. …

In software systems, there might be times where you want to either order requests / orders by timestamp, or provide cutoff times. Seems like a fair solution right — whenever we want to order something we add timestamps to them, and even when there’s race conditions, we know that the…

Docker Multi-Stage build is a powerful tool that can help you in a lot of different scenarios. The scenario we’re going to discuss today is actually quite simple: We want all our hosted environments and our local environments to run the app differently. …

You have 2 different JS modules you’re working on, and one is dependent on the other. Let’s call the first module user-management, and the others subscriptions, where subscriptions is dependent on user-management . Typically, the package.json of subscriptions would have a dependency like this — dependencies { ... "@example/user-management" : "0.0.33" }…

The TIL series is a series of short blogposts, aimed to document small things learnt everyday Let’s say you have an object in Typescript that you know can be either of type Transaction or of type Order. For such cases, you can do Type Union in the following manner — …

This is a series of blog posts about my experience undergoing the beginner level bioinformatics course on Coursera. This is the final part of the series, and talks about the overall experience and lessons learnt. If you’ve not read the previous parts, I would recommend starting there. Link to Part…

This is a series of blog posts about my experience undergoing the beginner level bioinformatics course on Coursera, the problems solved, and the Python Codes generated.This purpose of this blog is for me to document my experiences for my future self, and not to optimize for readability. If you’ve not…