In many AI applications today, performance is a big deal. You may have noticed that while working with Large Language Models (LLMs), a lot of time is spent waiting—waiting for an API response, waiting ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

Understanding asynchronous programming is akin to unlocking a powerful toolset for building efficient and responsive web applications. Asynchronous programming is essential to modern JavaScript ...

You are probably already familiar with JavaScript’s set of highly flexible variable types. We don’t need to review them here; they are very powerful and capable ...

Developers use JavaScript promises to model asynchronous operations in web and server-side programs. Here's a quick look at five ways to use promises in your code. Promises are a central mechanism for ...

Alex Merced is the co-author of O'Reilly's "Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide" and a developer advocate for Dremio ...

Abstract: Asynchronous JavaScript has become omnipresent, yet is inherently difficult to reason about. While many recent debugging tools are trying to address this issue with (semi-)automatic methods, ...