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Sandeep Panda

My name is Sandeep. I am the co-founder of Hashnode, a community for software developers. I love programming 💻, bike riding 🏍 , and writing ✍.

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How to achieve truly zero downtime deployment using pm2?

If you are running any Node/Express apps in production, you are most likely using PM2 to manage them. One of the cool features of pm2 is that it lets you run your app in cluster mode with multiple instances. One of the benefits of this approach is th...

TIL: "Double Underscores" have a name - Dunder 😂

October 2, 2019

How many times have you encountered names like __init__, __test__, __doTask___ and so on? These are called Dunders or Double Underscores and are commonly used for operator overloading. More details here: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dunder-magic-me...

I was interviewed by Michaela for her new podcast Software Engineering Unlocked🎙

September 25, 2019

Michaela Greiler recently started a podcast called Software Engineering Unlocked which gives you a sneak peek into how software companies around the world develop software. There are already two interesting episodes featuring software engineers like ...

The low effort way of sending messages to a discord channel from Node.js

We recently opened up a Discord Server for Hashnode users (yay! finally 🎉). Yesterday I had some time to set up a channel for incoming dev stories from Hashnode's Devblog network. Initially this sounded simple, but I faced some hiccups! Firstly, I ...

How I built a CDN for our multi-tenant app within a day

Ok - before I begin let me give you some context. The multi-tenant app (or SaaS product) in question is Hashnode.dev. It's a new blogging platform that lets developers run a personal blog for free without worrying about ads or paywalls. We launched t...

Offering speed as a feature: Why Hashnode powered blogs are blazing fast ⚡️

I recently revisited a post by Jeff Atwood which says that performance is a feature. According to him, slow websites offer a degraded user experience which ultimately affects the conversion. Conversely, Users, especially developers, love to use webs...