Alex Merced — Developer and technical writer sharing in-depth insights on data engineering, Apache Iceberg, data lakehouse architectures, Python tooling, and modern analytics platforms, with a strong focus on practical, hands-on learning.
333 articles from this blog
A step-by-step React tutorial for building a simple blog application using JSON data, covering components, state, props, and deployment.
A comprehensive guide to essential JavaScript development tools including Node, Babel, ESLint, CSS pre-processors, TypeScript, and bundlers.
A guide exploring career paths, learning methods, and key considerations for starting a career as a software developer in 2021.
A guide to five useful React techniques: spreading props, destructuring, render functions, JSX props, and custom hooks to write cleaner code.
Introducing EZComponent, an open-source frontend framework that simplifies building with Web Components, featuring a streamlined workflow and built-in reactivity.
An explanation of the MVC (Model-View-Controller) architectural pattern, covering its components and their roles in web application development.
A beginner's guide to the Ballerina programming language, covering installation, CLI usage, and creating your first project.
A beginner's guide to Rust programming covering installation, syntax, package management, and writing your first program.
A beginner's guide to Go (Golang) covering installation, syntax basics, package management, and writing your first program.
A beginner's guide to building web APIs with the FastAPI framework, covering setup, routing, and handling URL parameters and queries.
A comprehensive guide explaining the fundamentals of web deployment, covering architecture, hosting options, and key technical concepts.
Explains how to implement JavaScript's map() function recursively, detailing the logic and base case for recursion.
A guide to creating a developer portfolio website using a custom Gatsby template that includes project listings and markdown blog functionality.
An overview of essential client-side JavaScript browser APIs, including navigator, window, customElements, document, and localStorage.
A comprehensive reference guide covering CSS fundamentals, syntax, selectors, layout systems like Flexbox and Grid, and best practices for styling web pages.
Introduces TaskRunner, a React state management pattern as an alternative to Redux/useReducer, enabling async actions and centralized logic.
Explores Svelte framework options after Sapper's deprecation, comparing alternatives like SvelteKit, Elder.js, and Routify for developers.
A step-by-step tutorial on building a portfolio/blog website using Angular and integrating it with Agility CMS for content management.
A tutorial on using static JSON files with Netlify to serve data in a JAMStack architecture, avoiding database costs.
A tutorial on building a blog using the Agility headless CMS, covering setup, content modeling, and data retrieval via API.
