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5 Console Tips to Debug Your Web Apps with Chrome DevTools
Make the most out of your debug and test sessions
Chrome Dev Tools provides many ways to debug our web apps. But we often limit ourselves to the use of `console.log`. Improve your development workflow by using these 5 console tips to make the most out of your debug and test sessions.

Native extensions for NodeJS
Step by step guide to understand the core concepts and build a first extension.
This article is intended for those looking to develop a first native extension with NodeJS. First, we’ll look into the concepts that are important to understand to get started. Later, I will show how to build our first native extension with a practical example. And finally, I will leave some links to read more about it

Inversion of Control in NodeJS
Why and how we built our own IoC library
From grasping the concept to configuring components and refining modules, here's everything you need to know about Inversion of Control (IoC).

10 Good reasons to use Graph Databases
Because in the real world, things work connected
Most of the problems we face are real world abstractions, and it happens to be that in the real world, things work connected. This is why we should consider using graph databases instead of the classic relational model. We’ll see how it impacts performance, visualization, structures, simple querying, and transactions.

Using ElasticSearch with Grails
Tips to use the plugin or develop a custom index management solution
Compare the ElasticSearch grails’ plugin with a custom solution. And remember, ElasticSearch is schema-free so indexing is almost a piece of cake.