Tag: JAVASCRIPT

Deploying JavaScript to the cloud - the options I've tried
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Deploying JavaScript to the cloud - the options I've tried

JavaScript has become one of the most widely used programming languages, powering applications across various domains. With the advent of cloud computing, developers now have a multitude of options for deploying JavaScript applications in the cloud. In this article, we will explore different deployment options and popular cloud providers for

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Building JS apps for the cloud - what actually matters
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Building JS apps for the cloud - what actually matters

Cloud-native development has revolutionized the way we build and deploy applications, enabling scalability, resilience, and flexibility. As JavaScript continues to dominate the web development landscape, it's essential to understand and apply cloud-native best practices to JavaScript applications. In this article, we will explore some of the key practices

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Serverless with JavaScript - what worked and what didn't
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Serverless with JavaScript - what worked and what didn't

I went through a serverless phase a while back. You know how it is — you read a few blog posts, watch a conference talk, and suddenly you want to put everything in Lambda functions. I'm here to tell you that's a bad idea, but also that

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JavaScript and Cloud Services
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JavaScript and Cloud Services

I've been building web applications with JavaScript for more than 10 years now, and at some point you realise that writing the code is only half the battle. The other half is making sure the thing doesn't fall over when actual people start using it. At

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Getting started with tensorflow-js and Angular - AngularMVD
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Getting started with tensorflow-js and Angular - AngularMVD

Recently I moved to Uruguay, Montevideo. Here I found an active community of developers, yesterday I had a chance of giving a talk at the AngularMVD meetup. Even though it has been ages from the last time I developed an Angular app the talk was about how to use tensorflow.

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Parcel web bundler pros and cons
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Parcel web bundler pros and cons

Recently I've been using Parcel (https://parceljs.org/) for some small web apps I'm developing in my free time. Parcel is a modern javascript bundler that is used to package a JS app into a single, or multiple files. We could argue that the state of

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Using tensorflow-models/mobilenet for image recognition
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Using tensorflow-models/mobilenet for image recognition

Here is a simple tutorial on how to use the mobilenet model released by google with tensorflow-js. This tutorial requires node v >10 and the parcel bundler. To install node use nvm https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm and to install parcel just run npm -i g parcel-bundler step 1

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Easy tensorflow.js intro - basic operations
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Easy tensorflow.js intro - basic operations

Tensorflow is the defacto standard for building advanced neural networks of any kind. Natively tensorflow is a python library and gives to the user a framework that simplifies operation with tensors. A tensor is a mathematical object analogous to but more general than a vector, represented by an array of

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Posenet
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Posenet

Playing with models released for tensorflow js. Posenet is a neural network that allows the estimation of a human pose from an image. For more technical information about how it actually works refer to this blog post https://medium.com/tensorflow/real-time-human-pose-estimation-in-the-browser-with-tensorflow-js-7dd0bc881cd5 import * as posenet from "@tensorflow-models/posenet"

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3d force directed graph visualisation with ThreeJS
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3d force directed graph visualisation with ThreeJS

I needed a cool way to visualize a force directed graph with many datapoints, so I thought that webGL was the way to go as it should be able to handle the heavy load better than d3 SVG. The library I've used for this small proof of concept

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