Kirill Zonov

Recent Posts

March 09, 2018

JS on Backend in 2018. Tutorial. Part 3. Relationships and Sequelize ORM tuning.

Hello, my dear, today we will dive deeper into the abyss of ORM configuration. We will add one more resource, set a relationship between this one and the one we already had after this post and will cover some useful tuning options. Spoiler: we will even change a bit the old one. So, fasten your seatbelts, let’s start!

February 27, 2018

CodeRunFun and ArangoDB

Hello friends, please sit down and have a cup of tea, today we’re going to talk about ArangoDB. It is a database. Have you ever heard of it? I had not, until yesterday. But I came across a brilliant article from this database developers. Let me tell a few words about the database itself and about their article.

February 19, 2018

JS on Backend in 2018. Tutorial. Part 2. Adding a database and Sequelize ORM.

After the previous post, our application server works, can receive requests and even return some kind of responses, which is already great and you can go into production with it! But probably it would make sense to add some more functionality to it. And in this post, we will integrate a database and implement a RESTful API.

February 10, 2018

Developing a database. Part 1. Why may you need indexes and how does Hash index work.

I plan to write a series of posts about databases internals. In order to make it easily perceivable, I'll be writing a NoSQL DB from scratch in Ruby. No doubts that it's not the best fit for database development, but it's extremely readable and will help us a lot. This one will be about why may you want to have an index and what is a Hash index.