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The Pros and Cons of LocalStorage in Modern Web Development

Introduction The Web storage api is a set of mechanisms that enable browsers to store key-value pairs. Before HTML5, application data had to be sorte…

Feb 20, 2025 · 4 min read
Web Development

Learning Notes #64 - E-Tags and Last-Modified Headers

Today morning, i started with a video on E-Tags (came as first in youtube suggestion). In this blog i jot down my notes on E-Tags and how it helps in…

Jan 20, 2025 · 3 min read
Web Development

Learning Notes #4 - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool for Load Testing

How i came across this Apache Bench aka AB tool ? When i need to load test to check the rate limiting in my previous blog on Gatekeeper Cloud Pattern…

Dec 21, 2024 · 3 min read
Web Development

Maya : 5mb Storage on browser

Maya, a developer working on a new website, was frustrated with slow load times caused by using cookies to store user data. One night, she discovered…

Aug 17, 2024 · 4 min read
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The Tale of Alex, the Frontend Developer, and the Mystery of 127.0.0.1 and Localhost

Once upon a time in the world of web development, there was a frontend developer named Alex. Alex loved creating beautiful websites but stumbled upon…

Aug 11, 2024 · 4 min read
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Server Sent Events : An real time unidirectional communication

While you are developing real-time projects, there is always a one-question mark on “ how to get real time updates from server ? ”. There are differe…

Jun 12, 2024 · 9 min read