Software-Dev-Interview-Notes

Contains the explanation of some basic and must know technologies for a software developer

Front End

Angular 2+

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• The essential difference between Constructor and ngOnInit in Angular

Middleware

Load Balancer

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• Sticky and Non-Sticky Sessions
• Should SSL be terminated at a load balancer?

Web Services

REST

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• Blog Series: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

Web Security

CSRF

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• Spring CSRF support documentation
• OWASP CSRF Prevention Cheat Sheet
• OWASP CSRF Guard to add CSRF protection in the Java application
• Why refresh CSRF token per form request?
• Should login and logout action have CSRF protection?
• Session Fixation Attack

SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) SSO (Single Sign On)

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• The Basics of SAML
• How SAML Authentication Works
• Overview of SAML
• What is SAML, what is it used for and how does it work?

Backend

Node.js

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What is Node JS and Why to use Node JS

• https://www.toptal.com/nodejs/why-the-hell-would-i-use-node-js
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1884724/what-is-node-js/6782438#6782438

General Concepts in Node JS

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7931537/whats-the-difference-between-asynchronous-non-blocking-event-base-architectu?noredirect=1&lq=1

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28031289/javascript-asynchronous-programming-promises-vs-generators

• https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/2la8zb/setimmediate_vs_processnexttick_vs_settimeout/

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2387724/node-js-on-multi-core-machines

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21607692/understanding-the-event-loop

• https://nodejs.org/en/docs/guides/event-loop-timers-and-nexttick/

• https://nodesource.com/blog/understanding-the-nodejs-event-loop/

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/EventLoop

• https://github.com/maxogden/art-of-node#the-art-of-node

• Cyclic Dependencies in Node modules

Best Practices

• https://github.com/i0natan/nodebestpractices

Modules and Frameworks I have used

• https://mochajs.org/
• https://github.com/gotwarlost/istanbul
• http://caolan.github.io/async/
• https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb
• http://chaijs.com/
• http://sinonjs.org/
• http://momentjs.com/
• http://expressjs.com/
• https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-pac-resolver

Awesome NodeJS

• https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome-nodejs

Blogs

• https://nodesource.com/blog/

Talks

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGhZQkoFbQ
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb9rnP2MhYc
• Node's Event Loop From the Inside Out by Sam Roberts, IBM
• The Node.js Event Loop: Not So Single Threaded
• Morning Keynote- Everything You Need to Know About Node.js Event Loop - Bert Belder, IBM

REST API Tutorial

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oXYLzuucwE&list=PL55RiY5tL51q4D-B63KBnygU6opNPFk_q
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7NVpxxmmgM&list=PL0dzCUj1L5JE4w_OctDGyZOhML6OtJSqR
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlB_eWDSMt4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKd0Rpw7O48
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRdcRFvuqsE&list=PL4cUxeGkcC9jBcybHMTIia56aV21o2cZ8

Node Internals

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGn60vDSxQ4
• https://vimeo.com/24713213
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10680601/nodejs-event-loop
• https://nikhilm.github.io/uvbook/introduction.html
• http://www.slideshare.net/saghul/libuv-nodejs-and-everything-in-between
• https://medium.com/@amanhimself/the-node-js-system-51090c35dddc#.7znlwomq1

Blogs by Developers

• Codementor
• Toptal