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rust
use axum::{extract::{Path, State}, http::StatusCode, Json};
use dashmap::DashMap;
use serde::Serialize;
use std::sync::Arc;

Request coalescing in an Axum handler

caching concurrency request-coalescing
Advanced 8 steps
javascript
function attachThousandSeparators(input, { locale = 'en-US' } = {}) {
  const formatter = new Intl.NumberFormat(locale);
  const groupSep = formatter.format(11111).replace(/\d/g, '')[0] || ',';
  const decimalSep = formatter.format(1.1).replace(/\d/g, '')[0] || '.';

Live thousand separators without losing the caret

dom intl caret-preservation
Advanced 8 steps
php
<?php
 
namespace App\Providers;
 

Subdomain multi-tenancy routing in Laravel

multi-tenancy service-container route-binding
Advanced 7 steps
typescript
import { Injectable, NestInterceptor, ExecutionContext, CallHandler } from '@nestjs/common';
import { Observable, catchError, concatMap, finalize } from 'rxjs';
import { DataSource, QueryRunner } from 'typeorm';
 

Wrapping requests in a transaction with NestJS

interceptors transactions rxjs
Advanced 7 steps
javascript
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
 
app.get('/health', (req, res) => res.json({ status: 'ok' }));

Graceful shutdown in an Express server

graceful-shutdown signal-handling connection-tracking
Advanced 9 steps
go
func UploadChunk(c *gin.Context) {
	uploadID := c.Param("uploadID")
	if !validUploadID.MatchString(uploadID) {
		c.JSON(http.StatusBadRequest, gin.H{"error": "invalid upload id"})

Resumable chunked uploads in Gin

file-upload content-range streaming
Advanced 9 steps
rust
use axum::{
    body::Body,
    extract::Path,
    http::{header, HeaderMap, HeaderValue, StatusCode},

HTTP range requests for video streaming in Axum

http-range-requests streaming async-io
Advanced 8 steps
java
@GetMapping("/files/{id}")
public ResponseEntity<StreamingResponseBody> download(
        @PathVariable String id,
        @RequestHeader(value = HttpHeaders.RANGE, required = false) String rangeHeader) throws IOException {

HTTP range requests in Spring

http-range streaming file-io
Advanced 10 steps
python
import asyncio
import json
 
from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, HTTPException

Streaming export progress with SSE in FastAPI

server-sent-events async-generators streaming
Advanced 8 steps
typescript
import { Injectable, inject } from '@angular/core';
import { PreloadingStrategy, Route } from '@angular/router';
import { Observable, of, Subject } from 'rxjs';
import { filter, switchMap, take } from 'rxjs/operators';

A hover-triggered preloading strategy in Angular

lazy-loading rxjs preloading
Advanced 8 steps
python
from decimal import Decimal, ROUND_HALF_UP
 
from django.db import transaction
from django.db.models import F

Batch price updates safely in Django

decimal-precision batch-processing transactions
Advanced 8 steps
javascript
const express = require('express');
const { AsyncLocalStorage } = require('async_hooks');
const { randomUUID } = require('crypto');
 

Per-request logging context in Express

async-local-storage middleware structured-logging
Advanced 8 steps
go
package middleware
 
import (
	"bytes"

Idempotent requests in Gin with Redis

idempotency caching middleware
Advanced 10 steps
ruby
class Pipeline
  def initialize
    @middlewares = []
  end

Building a middleware pipeline in Ruby

closures middleware composition
Advanced 8 steps
go
package middleware
 
import (
	"context"

A deadline-enforcing HTTP middleware in Go

middleware context goroutines
Advanced 7 steps
java
public final class MultipartParser {
 
    public record FilePart(String name, String filename, String contentType, byte[] content) {}
 

Parsing multipart form data by hand in Java

parsing byte-arrays http
Advanced 8 steps
rust
use axum::{
    body::Body,
    extract::State,
    http::{header, StatusCode},

Streaming NDJSON from Postgres in Axum

streaming backpressure async
Advanced 9 steps
php
final class Container
{
    private array $bindings = [];
    private array $instances = [];

Building a DI container with reflection in PHP

dependency-injection reflection autowiring
Advanced 9 steps