Manish Prasad Manish Prasad · Founding Team at Powerplay

Nearly two decades of shipping code to production.

I dive deep into the ever evolving world of software engineering and modern application development. Sharing lessons learned in Node.js, MongoDB, AI and Javascript/TypeScript.

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Mongoose data modeling10 posts · 69 minDesigning schemas that survive: validation, nesting, inheritance, population, and the hooks and plugins that keep models DRY.
  1. Avoiding Common Mongoose Schema Design Anti-Patterns
  2. Mongoose Schema Validation: Best Practices and Anti-Patterns
  3. Understand Sub-documents & Nested documents in Mongoose
  4. 7 more
 Node.js in production7 posts · 64 minWhat keeps a Node.js service healthy once real traffic arrives: the event loop, streams, error handling, logging, memory and security.
  1. A Deep Dive into Nodejs Event Loop: Key to Non-Blocking I/O
  2. Understand Nodejs Readable, Writable and Transform Streams
  3. Node.js Error Handling Patterns for Production
  4. 4 more
 Running Express in production6 posts · 24 minProcess setup, health checks, graceful shutdown, logging and monitoring for an Express app that has to stay up.
  1. Best Practices for Production setup of Nodejs Application: Part I
  2. Best Practices for Production setup of Nodejs Application: Part II
  3. Health Checks and Graceful Shutdown of Expressjs App using Lightship
  4. 3 more
 MongoDB security & operations6 posts · 38 minInstalling, isolating, locking down and backing up MongoDB, from the EC2 instance up to field-level encryption.
  1. MongoDB Installation on AWS EC2: Lessons Learned & Best Practices
  2. Deploy EC2 in Private Subnet & Securely Enable Internet Communication
  3. MongoDB Security: Best Practices and Anti-Patterns
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