advena.hashnode.devHeavy Map Visualizations Fundamentals for Web DevelopersSo, you’ve reached a point where your web application needs to display a map—not just a simple one with a single marker, but one that overlays a large dataset. Maybe the data points move, update in real time, or need to be interactive. If you’ve work...Mar 26, 2025·55 min read
advena.hashnode.devBinary and Encoding FormatsPeople are good with text, computers are good with numbers Anna Henningsen When people do things with computers, they tend to work in text forms, whether that's programs, or whether that is some other input that they give to the computer. The idea...Oct 23, 2023·41 min read
advena.hashnode.devBigQuery Fundamentals for Software Developers and Integrating with Node.jsAs a web/software application developer, you might encounter a situation where a data analyst approaches you and says, "Hey, we need some extra data in Google Analytics (or Looker Studio). We noticed that we can display charts with data from Google's...Apr 30, 2023·19 min read
advena.hashnode.devRemoving Personal Information (PII) from Sentry Error Monitoring in JavaScript@AKQA is committed to being GDPR-compliant. While working on a client's Next.js project, I investigated Sentry to find the best approach to remove all personal information from the monitoring logs. 1.0 - Sentry Sentry is an American application perfo...Jan 4, 2023·22 min read