Nathan Patterson

Best Practices for High-Performing APIs Nathan Patterson · Follow 6 min read · -- Photo by Pietro Jeng on Unsplash I’ve been working extensively with API performance testing recently, sparked by a side project called API Gladiator. It’s a performance testing platform where developers can benchmark their APIs against standardized challenges. Most of us (I hope) have encountered performance issues at some point. This read will extend beyond basic load-testing concepts.

Nathan Patterson · Follow 4 min read · -- https://github.com/oslabs-beta/Polybase Polybase is an open-source JavaScript library designed to simplify and unify database operations in modern, multi-database systems. Supporting PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Neo4j, and InfluxDB, it allows developers with a single interface to: Query, manage, and synchronize data across different databases seamlessly. Resolve cross-database conflicts and maintain real-time consistency.

There’s never enough time to do everything, even in engineering education. Employers want engineers capable of wielding simulation tools to expedite iterative research, design, and development. Some instructors try to address this by teaching for weeks or months, on derivations of numerical methods, approaches to discretization, the intricacies of turbulence models, and more.