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Toptalauthors are vetted experts in their fields and write on topics in which they have demonstrated experience. All of our content is peer reviewed and validated by Toptal experts in the same field.

Reusable State Management With RxJS, React, and Custom Libraries

Discover a powerful RxJS and React approach that adds state management to single-page applications. RxJS provides an elegant, succinct, and comfortable implementation for developers that becomes more effective with custom libraries.

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Mark Evans

Mark Evans

Mark is a full-stack software engineer who has written applications for major service companies including Intel, Disney, Sky, and Vodafone. He has led React and RxJS teams from prototype through commercial release, and holds master’s degrees in physics from Oxford University and King’s College.

Security in Django Applications: A Pydantic Tutorial, Part 4

Django’s built-in security checker identifies vulnerabilities with ease. Here’s how you can enforce HTTPS redirects to tighten security on your web applications.

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Arjaan Buijk

Arjaan Buijk

Arjaan is a software engineer and data scientist who creates mission-critical, Python-based cloud solutions focused on Rasa for international banks and insurance companies. He also architects and teaches large-scale Kubernetes solutions. Arjaan founded a company for the resale of manufacturing simulation software that he co-developed.

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The Secret Behind Steady App Performance: Asynchronous JavaScript

JavaScript’s default synchronous methods can freeze an application, scaring off end users. Here’s how you can leverage asynchronous JavaScript techniques to increase control over front-end responsiveness.

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Muhammad Ammar Ilyas

Muhammad Ammar Ilyas

Muhammad is a full-stack developer with 10 years of experience delivering web and mobile applications for Resulta and other large marketing firms. He has JavaScript expertise ranging across Node.js, Next.js, React, React Native, and headless WordPress solutions.

How C++ Competitive Programming Can Help Hiring Managers and Developers Alike

Programmers gain valuable real-world skills from algorithm competitions that can boost their job prospects—and contest ratings make it easier for hiring managers to find top talent. Explore competitive C++ with a programmer whose scores got them recruited by Google.

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Anitet Wheeler-Rose

Anitet Wheeler-Rose

Anitet is a full-stack engineer and CTO with expertise in C++, JavaScript, and DevOps. A former site reliability and software engineer at Google, Anitet was recruited after achieving an 85th to 90th percentile ranking at algorithm programming competition events.

An Expert Workaround for Executing Complex Entity Framework Core Stored Procedures

Microsoft’s Entity Framework Core is a popular object-relational mapper, but it doesn’t support the return of complex type results from stored procedures. A clever bit of code gets us around this limitation, returning non-database entities with ease.

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Pankaj Kansodariya

Pankaj Kansodariya

Pankaj is a back-end developer and Microsoft Certified Professional with more than 18 years of experience within the Microsoft ecosystem, including C#, VB.NET, SQL Server, and cloud computing with Microsoft Azure. He has worked as a .NET developer at companies including Granicus, Gartner, and Jacobs.

Streamline Event-driven Microservices With Kafka and Python

With the rise of big data, cloud, and streaming platforms, monolithic apps just won’t do. Here’s a blueprint for an adaptable and scalable event-driven microservices project using Kafka and Python.

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Dmitry Shurov

Dmitry Shurov

Dmitry is a software developer and Python expert. He has eight years of experience at companies such as Kaspersky and FABLEfx, and has developed multiple microservices systems across the globe using Kafka and Python.

SolidJS vs. React: The Go-to Guide

SolidJS is a blazing-fast framework that dodges virtual DOM manipulation. Let’s see how it compares to React, the industry standard, when it comes to components, performance, and developer productivity.

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Nathan Babcock

Nathan Babcock

Nathan is a senior React engineer and an expert in streamlining UI/UX with React. As the lead design engineer at Motorola Solutions, he marshaled a product combining React, Angular, and Svelte to company-wide deployment, garnering more than 100,000 downloads. Nathan also developed Hypetrigger, a popular machine vision system for use with streaming services and that is built with React and SolidJS for the front end.

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Gabriel Courtemanche

Gabriel is a highly efficient and reliable professional who possesses a broad skill set for web application development. He's been working on a range of products and clients—from working on scalability problems in production engineering teams at Shopify and Autodesk to launching new applications for startups. Most of his work consists of leading technical teams, by creating an easy development environment, fixing technical debts, providing best practices code examples, and mentoring devs.
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