I Write to Share What I Learned

Rust

No more awkward test cases. Here's one fixture-based testing framework that cleaned up my Rust unit tests.

Daw-Chih Liou

Rust

Discover the most seamless developer experience with Rust and WebAssembly. This is the fastest way to auto-generate TypeScript definitions from your Rust code.

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Cloud

The ultimate NestJS Dockfile for optimized production image and local development.

Daw-Chih Liou

Cloud

I unknowingly blew $3,000 in 6 hours on one query in Google Cloud BigQuery. Here's why and 3 easy steps to optimize the cost.

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Leadership

5 easy steps to create a sustainable tech community in your company that everyone loves.

Daw-Chih Liou

Rust

Introducing Voy, a portable WebAssembly semantic search engine with vector similarity search in Rust.

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Cloud

Using multi-stage builds to optimize production Docker image for faster deployment.

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Frontend

A benchmark comparison and analysis between Qwik and Next.js 13.

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Leadership

An ex-tech lead's guide to create a healthy code review culture that helps you ship your code faster.

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Cloud

The modern workflow that unlocks your team's potential to ship faster.

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Rust

With a real-world example

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Leadership

How do the big tech companies and unicorn startups succeed in agile product development while maintaining code quality.

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Frontend

We will be building a proof of concept to create customer Google Maps markers using any React component in a Next.js project.

Daw-Chih Liou

Frontend

Event Bus is an interesting design pattern to build a lightweight event system. We will discover its use cases in React and build a type-safe Event Bus from scratch with TypeScript.

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Frontend

Everything you need to know about the component-oriented library.

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Frontend

React 18 released the highly anticipated concurrent features. In this article, we are diving into a 3D visualization and discuss how to optimize its performance step by step with React 18's concurrent rendering.

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Rust

After migrating to Contentlayer, I started exploring how to use the content data to roll out a search feature for my portfolio. Inspired by some of the amazing open-source projects, I built my own full-text search engine in Rust and WebAssembly. It is fast, lightweight, and tons of fun to build!

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Leadership

Operating as a principal software engineer is all about bringing engineering, business, and people close together. There are many things to consider in terms of time budget, resources, and even your own involvement when it comes to planning. I want to share with you how I think about the important questions to ask in the planning phase of the project.

Daw-Chih Liou

Frontend

Recently I have been researching on reducing the effort to create a new article on my static website. I analyzed more and found out the friction was in my MDX usage with Next.js. After shifting to Contentlayer, publishing content becomes so effortless. I will show you how.

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Leadership

I recently joined a European public company as a Lead Software Engineer. The role has a combined responsibility of Principal Software Engineer and Senior Engineering Manager. It is challenging but I was prepared. I want to share with you 50+ books and resources that help me in my journey.

Daw-Chih Liou

Rust

I was struggling with Rust's ownership when implementing a Binary Tree so I re-read about it. After taking my time understanding it and refactoring, I finally made a breakthrough😎 I'm very excited to share with you the awesome features in Rust I came across. You'll see interesting concepts like smart pointers and ownership.

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Rust

Text is essential in programming languages. String is the Rust's and JavaScript's definition to process text in written languages around the world. Through the simple concept of string indexing, we'll discuss how Rust and JavaScript process strings and how they handle the nuances in strings such as grapheme, or even emojis.

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TypeScript

Writing CLIs feels like a super power💯 You can write one too! I'll show you how to develop a CLI with TypeScript step by step and demonstrate how you can apply your CLI in CD/CI pipelines. We're going to uncover the power of Google Lighthouse and many more amazing npm packages!

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Frontend

How trivago Frontend Engineering revamped the company's Business Intelligence web application. After almost a decade, we decided to rebuild our in-house Business Intelligence web application to better support the organization. We successfully completed the project because we fundamentally challenged and re-thought all aspects of the project.

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Performance

WebP is a modern image format that provides outstanding image quality with smaller image size. I'll show you how much you can benefit from it and how to setup your project for optimal developer experience.

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Leadership

Practical experience that shapes billion dollar enterprise. I have been very fortunate to take a part in important topics at trivago. We have brought groundbreaking changes in accommodation search. It was clear that our data-informed approach is the foundation to innovation. I want to share with you our learnings.

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Frontend

Marble testing is a brilliant way to test observables. It focuses on the behaviors of observables over time. The combination of test assertion and marble diagram let us visualize the progression of emitted values over time.

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Leadership

A recap of the 5-day JavaScript journey. It has been a couple of months since Kyle, author of the “You Don’t Know JS” series, visited our trivago headquarters and gave us a wonderful JavaScript workshop. It was such an enjoyable week, being able to meet Kyle in person and walk through his thinking behind the materials.

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JavaScript

What is transducing? Simply put, it’s a data transformation process without creating intermediate products. It’s like a pipeline. It’s your data on one end, and the pipeline transforms the data and produce your output on the other end.

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