Tint Technical Blog

Having spent a few hours understanding and properly configuring our Database Connection Pool helped us divide our maximum API latency by three.

Today asynchronous operations are very similar to synchronous ones, the only difference in appearance is the async and await keywords.

In reality, they only seem similar, a lot is going on under the hood. To really understand how asynchronous operations work in JavaScript, we will travel back in time to the language origin, and follow the evolution of asynchronous code in Javascript.

But first what are asynchronous operations anyway?

At Tint, we were using Material UI v4 and decided to migrate to MUI v5 recently. We thought we'd use this migration as an opportunity to share the challenges we have faced.

In this post, we are going to share how we performed a gradual migration and detail all the pitfalls we faced during the process.