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An Introduction to TypeScript

A basic overview on TypeScript interfaces, types and enums

May 5, 2021

An Introduction to TypeScript

May 5, 2021

When to use flexbox vs CSS grid

For everyone that is interested in applying for a frontend engineer position(including me at the moment), there is an interesting question…

Jan 24

When to use flexbox vs CSS grid

Jan 24

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Implement an email and slack notification service with AWS CloudFormation

Adding on top of https://awstip.com/implement-notification-service-using-amazon-ses-and-aws-cloudformation-b4e30c160378, let’s expand it to…

Jan 9

Implement an email and slack notification service with AWS CloudFormation

Jan 9

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Implement notification service using Amazon SES and AWS CloudFormation

In this article, we will be talking about how to implement a notification service using AWS CloudFormation and Amazon SES.

Dec 17, 2024

Implement notification service using Amazon SES and AWS CloudFormation

Dec 17, 2024

Implement simple email notification service using nodemailer and node.js

This article will introduce a simple notification service that sends email notification to different users.

Sep 4, 2024

Implement simple email notification service using nodemailer and node.js

Sep 4, 2024

Build a simple blogging api service using GraphQL

Today we will be building a blogging service that consists of 4 components: users, tags, posts, and comments. Let’s talk about their…

Aug 30, 2024

Build a simple blogging api service using GraphQL

Aug 30, 2024

Building a java application that simulates multithreading

Let’s picture you are waiting for a ride at a theme park. Ideally, everyone would line up and be able to get to the roller coaster right…

Jul 18, 2024

Building a java application that simulates multithreading

Jul 18, 2024

Simulate a Parking Lot application in javascript

Let’s say we have a small parking lot that can only take 5 cars at a time but at the same time there are 10 cars trying to park. Of course…

Nov 1, 2023

Simulate a Parking Lot application in javascript

Nov 1, 2023

Handling left click, right click, and double click simultaneously in react

This is a useful tutorial that you will need if you want to support an application that handles single click, double click, and right click…

Oct 27, 2023

Handling left click, right click, and double click simultaneously in react

Oct 27, 2023

Discussing Frontend System design with e-commerce

This can be a typical interview question you can encounter when interviewing for frontend engineer positions.

Sep 3, 2023

Discussing Frontend System design with e-commerce

Sep 3, 2023

Build a component that increments counter with mouse cursor inside a box

Today we will built a simple react component that increments a counter quickly when the mouse is hovering over a box.

Aug 4, 2023

Build a component that increments counter with mouse cursor inside a box

Aug 4, 2023

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Build an Easy Image Container w/ Description

Today we will focus on building an image container. This can be a very common frontend interview question to test mainly your basic…

Aug 2, 2023

Build an Easy Image Container w/ Description

Aug 2, 2023

System design: show the most songs in the last 7 days

Today we will tackle a system design question: Show the songs that were most popular in the last 7 days.

Jun 30, 2023

System design: show the most songs in the last 7 days

Jun 30, 2023

Design a proximity server that implements local search

With this problem, we have to design a system that handles “places nearby” queries . Given a latitude and longitude, find all the places…

Jun 2, 2023

Design a proximity server that implements local search

Jun 2, 2023

Solving Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock Problem

This is a pretty classic algorithm question that you might encounter on any interview. Let’s take a look into the context of this problem.

May 6, 2023

Solving Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock Problem

May 6, 2023

Designing live comment in a system design interview

In this article, we will be talking about how to implement a live comment system. To understand how to answer this problem, we have to…

Apr 24, 2023

Designing live comment in a system design interview

Apr 24, 2023

Push based architecture vs pull based architecture

Have you ever went on tiktok live and ever wonder why you can get updates so fast from other users messaging. Today we will talk about…

Apr 6, 2023

Push based architecture vs pull based architecture

Apr 6, 2023

Vertical scaling versus horizontal scaling in database systems

In the world of system design, there is one question that will consistently come up: how do we scale when the amount of requests exceed…

Mar 22, 2023

Vertical scaling versus horizontal scaling in database systems

Mar 22, 2023

Understand ACID compliance’s role in database management systems

ACID is a term to describe the set of properties that guarantee that database transactions are processed reliably.

Mar 8, 2023

Understand ACID compliance’s role in database management systems

Mar 8, 2023

Implement a dockerized node service and postgres image with sample data

To implement a dockerized node and postgres image, let’s take the following steps.

Feb 25, 2023

Implement a dockerized node service and postgres image with sample data

Feb 25, 2023

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Michael Tong

Just a dad spending tons of time building backend services and frontend projects for fun :D

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