Alvin Lee articles - 42 total
The Human Side of Logs: What Unstructured Data Is Trying to Tell You
It’s Friday afternoon, and your dashboards look great. Charts are green. CPU usage is stable....
From Concept to Cloud: Building with Cursor and the Heroku MCP Server
I’ve been experimenting with Cursor as a development tool, and it’s been surprisingly helpful in my...
Deploying a Scala Play Application to Heroku
I’ve been a web developer for years, but I haven’t touched Java in a long time — like, late-90s long....
Have You Heard About Cloud Native Buildpacks?
Do you ever get tired of fiddling with a Dockerfile? Dockerfiles and Docker images are a great way to...
FastHTML and Heroku
When creating a new app or service, what begins as learning just one new tool can quickly turn into...
Enhancing GenAI Applications With KubeMQ: Efficiently Scaling Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
As the adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) surges across industries, organizations are increasingly...
Playwright and Chrome Browser Testing in Heroku
I’ve always loved watching my unit tests run (and pass). They’re fast, and passing tests give me the...
Wow, pnpm, You’re Really Fast
If you’re a Node.js developer, then you’re familiar with npm and Yarn. You might even have a strong...
Ending Microservices Chaos: How Architecture Governance Keeps Your Microservices on Track
A microservices architecture is the gold standard for building scalable web applications. Gartner...
Custom domains for HTTP/2 on Heroku - so easy.
Several months ago, Heroku announced HTTP/2 support from browser to router. This is pretty awesome,...
Node.js Walkthrough: Build a Simple Event-Driven Application with Kafka
Have you ever wondered how some of your favorite apps handle real-time updates? Live sports scores,...
Take Your First Steps for Building on LLMs with Google Gemini
It seems like there are endless possibilities for innovation with LLMs. If you’re like me, you’ve...
I Built an App with Remix in 30 Minutes
I love playing with new toys. For development, that translates to trying out new tools and...
How You Can Use Logs to Feed Security
If your system is facing an imminent security threat — or worse, you’ve just suffered a breach — then...
How to Implement RAG with LlamaIndex, LangChain, and Heroku: A Simple Walkthrough
Having the correct data to support your use case is essential to a successful implementation of LLMs...
I Built My First Go Application and Deployed it to Heroku
Go (aka Golang) came to life at Google in 2009. It was designed by a few big names: Robert...
LangChain, Python, and Heroku
Since the launch and wide adoption of ChatGPT near the end of 2022, we’ve seen a storm of news about...
Learning to Collaborate on API Development with Postman
API development is a big part of what I love about software. Whether it's building integrations or...
Understanding the New SEC Rules for Disclosing Cybersecurity Incidents
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced its new rules for public...
Moving to Capability-Based Security with Flow: A Critical Evolution in Blockchain Security
Flow is a permissionless layer-1 blockchain built to support the high-scale use cases of games,...
A Better Web3 Experience: Account Abstraction From Flow (Part 2)
In part one of this two-part series, we looked at how walletless dApps smooth the web3 user...
A Better Web3 Experience: Account Abstraction From Flow (Part 1)
Despite the advancement of dApps’ capabilities over the past year, adoption has been slowed by...
Extracting Maximum Value from Logs
Logging is arguably the most important element of your observability solution. Logs provide...
Build Your Own Crowdfunding Dapp using Infura and Linea
The past few months have been extremely exciting for web3 developers in the Ethereum ecosystem. While...
Ethereum and EVM Traces Explained
As developers, it’s important we understand what actually happens under the hood during an Ethereum...
Efficient Enterprise Data Solutions with Stream Processing
Enterprise data solutions can quickly become expensive. NetApp reports that organizations see 30%...
Fuzzing Around: Better Smart Contract Testing through the Power of Random Inputs
Testing smart contracts is really important. Why? Smart contracts are generally immutable in...
From Zero to Hero: Learning Web3 with Infura and Python
Web3, blockchain technology, and cryptocurrency are all fascinating topics. The technology,...
How to Create an NFT Viewer with Infura's New NFT API
Digital collectibles (or NFTs, which stands for “non-fungible tokens”) have arguably been one of the...
Why Healthtech Companies Need a Data Privacy Vault
With the rising adoption of healthcare apps and wearable devices that gather medical data, the...