How to Get Background Jobs and Queues Right
Moving slow work, such as sending emails, processing images or calling external APIs, out of the web request into background jobs processed by workers. Why does...
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Websites and web products that load fast, read clearly and hold up under maintenance.
Moving slow work, such as sending emails, processing images or calling external APIs, out of the web request into background jobs processed by workers. Why does...
Recording application events and errors, and alerting the team when something breaks, so problems are found before customers report them. At a glance OWASP guid...
Checking that data received from users and other systems has the expected type, format and range before it is used or stored. What is at stake Validation stops...
Making sure each user can only see and do what they are allowed to, such as viewing their own orders but not someone else's. The key figures OWASP Top 10 2021 b...
Stopping automated spam submissions through contact, sign-up and comment forms without making the forms hard for real people to use. Where most projects go wron...
Deciding whether AI companies' crawlers may collect a site's content for model training or AI products, using robots.txt rules and published user agent tokens....
The page shown when someone requests a URL that does not exist, which should return a 404 status and help the visitor find what they wanted. At a glance Status...
CSS rules applied when a page is printed or saved as PDF, which hide navigation and adjust layout so the content prints cleanly. What is at stake Recipes, invoi...
Running backend code as small functions on demand, either in a cloud region or at CDN edge locations close to users, without managing servers. The key figures S...
Reducing the risk of a WordPress site being compromised by updating software, limiting access, choosing plugins carefully and configuring the server securely. W...
React components that render on the server and send their output to the browser without shipping their code, used in frameworks such as Next.js. Why does it mat...
Tests that run automatically to check that features work, from unit tests for individual functions to end-to-end tests that drive a real browser. At a glance Un...
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