Adding Time To Your Schedule As A Professional

Are you running a business and have too many things going on at once? Meetings, bugs, customer feedback, new clients in addition to your already tight deadlines? Let’s face it, time management is hard, and it becomes even more difficult in the trying times we are in. Here’s how tools like Trafft that have meeting scheduling software capabilities can be used to easily set up our calendars to allow clients to book time with us directly.

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Tools to Track and Manage Technical Debt

It's hard to make the right decision. We will look at the tools to track small, medium, and large pieces of debt and the process to reduce technical debt. Why Tracking Technical Debt Is Important? In the previous article, we looked at why managing technical debt is crucial.

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10 Ways to Host Your React App For Free

React is the most popular library in JavaScript. Most of the developers are moving to react. The React community is growing rapidly. As there are more React Apps are developed. But the problem here is the cost of hosting the App.

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GitHub’s Journey From Monolith to Microservices

Key Takeaways Take a practical approach when deciding between a Monolithic or a Microservices paradigm, and focus on enablement Apply good architectural practices around modularity, asynchronicity, and code for resiliency, no matter which path you decide to take Start small and make it an incrementa

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Challenging Ideas in a Non-challenging Way

I do quite a bit of onboarding at Atomic and help people get settled into the company in their first couple of years. We look for smart, engaged, energetic folks. These Atoms frequently see areas for improvement and want to help move the company forward.

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A Visual Guide to React Rendering - It Always Re-renders

Contrary to popular belief, by default, react component doesn’t care whether its props changed or not. It will always re-render when its parent renders. The structure of the app is: App > A > B > C.

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Create an API Gateway Using NodeJS and Express

Let's say that you have a bunch of API endpoints that you are currently managing, such as a large collection of micro services. Maybe at some point, you would like to have a little bit more control over the requests that are routed towards your services but you really don't want to manage separately for every single micro service.

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A Beginner's Guide to Lighthouse

You’ve built a website, but how well does it perform for your end users? It’s crucial to ask this question, but how can you get answers? One excellent option is to use Lighthouse. Lighthouse allows you to easily and automatically analyze a web page’s performance and quality.

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Automate Sending Emails with Google Sheets & Scripts

Google Sheets and Google Scripts have been a powerful combo for me in the past. A recent request to help required a deeper dive into that combo and include sending emails with Google Sheets. We’ll walk through an example covering the key takeaways from this experience.

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What are Data Structures?🤔

Everyone knows about Data but knowing how to organize, modify, navigate and access data is more important. Being a good programmer is not only dependent on if your code works but it depends greatly on the readability and scalability which is how fast and memory efficient your code is.

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Scaling monorepo — to infinity and beyond!

Having one big monorepo is an obvious choice for some organizations. But unless you are a FAANG company, you might find it hard to support it in a way that scales.

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My 2021 New Mac Setup

I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development. Unlike Mina Markham, I choose not to automate my setup because I only do it about once a year and I want the ability to make conscious changes each time.

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Building a Great Engineering Culture and Being a Genuinely Purpose Driven Organisation

Key Takeaways Rapid growth is about scaling technology, scaling teams and adapting the ways of working constantly Engineering standards help reduce friction and enable effective autonomy The distributed work environment demands more of people leaders in terms of their ability to manage people and un

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How to Build an AI App: Key Considerations, Tech Stack, & Opportunities

AI has already found its way into different solutions. You are probably using an AI app or two without even suspecting it. In this part of the article, you will learn about some of the most prominent mobile solutions relying on this technology and get a few AI mobile app ideas.

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BEM: A Class Naming Convention

BEM stands for Block-Element-Modifier. This naming convention is highly definitive and increases the readability of front-end code. It precludes from getting naming of HTML elements ambiguous. This convention has three parts Block, Element, and Modifier.

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NestJS Roadmap for Beginners

Nest (NestJS) is a framework for building efficient, scalable Node.js server-side applications. It uses progressive JavaScript, is built with and fully supports TypeScript (yet still enables developers to code in pure JavaScript), and combines elements of OOP (Object Oriented Programming), FP (Functional Programming), and FRP (Functional Reactive Programming).

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Why You Should Shake Up The Interview Process (And How)

I have always been against the principle of helping people to prepare for an interview. All the interview tips are great to help them prepare for joining the workforce but in the process, their unique personalities (and habits) lay buried under the cover stories about commitment, passion and skillsets. It’s all so scripted.

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Simple monorepos via npm workspaces and TypeScript project references

A monorepo is a single repository that is used to manage multiple projects. In this blog post, we’ll explore how to set up a simple monorepo for two npm packages. All we need is already built into npm and TypeScript.

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Manage the state of your React app with Zustand and Immer

I believe that everyone at some point when they were working with nested data became so saturated that they wondered if there would be an easier solution. I didn't go into great detail about what Immer.

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Delegating Effectively as a Tech Lead

Your role as tech lead is to help keep the team productive, and oftentimes the best way to do that is to invest some time up front to train your team. Being a tech lead is difficult.

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4 Ways to Recognize a Coworker’s Contributions

Over the years we’ve tried a variety of tactics to ensure that everyone’s hard work didn’t go unnoticed. Here are a few high-five-inducing methods for showing your team members a little love. The best part is that they can be done in a physical or remote context.

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Maintaining End-To-End Quality With Visual Testing

Testing is a critical part of any developer’s workflow. It helps us to ensure that our project is going to maintain a high level of quality, as well as prevent any pesky bugs from getting out into the wild.

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Look at Your Workplace Culture, Not Its Remote Work Policy

Since the founding of my company Atomic Object, physical co-location with team members has been a core cultural practice for us. In fact, we pushed the boundaries of interdisciplinary co-location before it was cool.

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What Is Memoization and Why Does It Matter?

Memoization is a programming technique that accelerates performance by caching the return values of expensive function calls. A “memoized” function will immediately output a pre-computed value if it’s given inputs that it’s seen before.

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Angular is Costing Companies Billions

I know I’m going to get hate-mail for writing this piece, but, so be it. Someone has got to finally say what many of us as experienced software engineers have been thinking for some time now. I’ve been a developer for over 20 years working for some of North America’s most prestigious companies.

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Here’s why Richard Branson’s flight matters—and, yes, it really matters

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M.—Sir Richard Branson basked in the late morning New Mexico sunshine on Sunday. Beaming his white, toothy grin for all to see, the 70-year-old adventurer looked resplendent in his blue flight suit as he stood alongside the pilots, Dave Mackay and co-pilot Mike Masucci, who had just rocketed him above 85 km.

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Job Crafting: The Cure for Career FOMO?

Covid-19 brought with it a slew of headlines about reactionary trends. First, there was no toilet paper. Then we needed to wipe down our cereal boxes. We swore off jeans. Now, we’re leaving our jobs — those of us who have them, at least.

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Those “Pesky” Pull Requests are Totally Worth It

Pretty much everyone does code reviews. They’ve been around a long time. I remember back in my Borland days when the Chief Scientist would come in every morning and review all the code that had been checked into the Subversion(!) repository the previous day and send emails out to folks whose code wasn’t up to snuff. That’s old school.

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Engineering Career Framework

Engineering Career Framework The Engineering Career Framework is your source for how to achieve impact for your role and team and how to grow in your engineering career. For managers, it can help you set expectations with your teams and hold them accountable for their work.

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Dockerize your React app

Hey, welcome back. This article is part of the Dockerize series, make sure to checkout the Introduction where I over some concepts we are going to use. Today we'll dockerize our React application by taking advantage of builder pattern with multi stage builds for optimization!

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Three Practical Examples of Concurrent React

The React team recently announced the plan for React 18, bringing a lot of cool new features like automatic batching, new suspense SSR Architecture, and new APIs that leverage concurrent rendering like the startTransition API.

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How To Use Axios With React: The Definitive Guide (2021)

In this guide, you will see exactly how to use Axios.js with React using tons of real-world examples featuring React hooks. You'll see why you should use Axios as a data fetching library, how to set it up with React, and perform every type of HTTP request with it.

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Freelance React Developer Checklist

As a freelance React developer, I work with a lot of clients on their React projects these days. Every time I get a request in my inbox, I usually reply with the same email template which I call the freelance checklist for React developers.

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OpenTelemetry: A Way to Achieve Observability

We all understand that proper data analytics is crucial to the success of an organization. But what if your analytics can do more than help you troubleshoot current problems? Splunk is building a future where data analytics proactively solve problems before they occur. Data is essential to success and innovation for modern organizations. However, no commercial vendor has an effective single instrument or tool to collect data from all of an organization’s applications.

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Turn Your iPhone into a Webcam with Shortcuts and Camo

Automating boring tasks is easier than ever. Say you’re on a lot of video calls, and instead of using the webcam that came with your computer, you want to use the camera that’s on the back of your phone. With about five minutes of work, you can turn your iPhone into a webcam.

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Micro Frontends in Angular using Nx and Module Federation

In this article, I’ll share the way to create Micro Frontends in Angular using Nx and webpack 5 module federation. First of all, create Nx workspace, nx-micro-frontend is the name, feel free to change it.

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Improving the Deployment Experience of a Ten-Year Old Application

In 2018, Etsy migrated its service infrastructure from self-managed data centers to cloud provisioning. (We blogged about it at the time.) The change opened up opportunities for improvements to technical processes across the company.

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3 Simple But Powerful Truths Of Software Projects

I’ve been developing, managing, and selling custom software solutions for nearly 20 years. During that time, I’ve worked in various business domains and technologies with each combination providing its own unique set of challenges.

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Micro frontends — a path to cleaner code and faster development

The traditional model to build, deploy, deliver and maintain web applications requires large-scale developer teams and complex, centralized systems. But now, the use of micro frontends is gaining traction.

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What is Observability and Why Does It Matter?

Observability is a trait of software systems that provide deep visibility into their internal operations. Possessing good observability facilitates faster resolution of problems by helping operations teams identify the cause of issues.

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The magic of react-query and supabase

It's been a while since I wrote my last article on state management in React using Context. Here's the link for anyone who wants to give it a read. And using custom hooks is still the primary way for me for state management and I have been recommending that to people as well.

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The unexpected benefits of mentoring others

At some point in your career, you may well be advised to seek out a mentor. The idea is that if someone who is further along in their journey guides you, you can move faster in yours. For the most part, this is solid advice.

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Evaluating Remote-First Practices in a Hybrid Work Model

Over the past year, many people have learned what it’s like to work remotely due to covid-19 pandemic restrictions. This remote-first experience differed from a typical remote work situation in two primary ways.

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What's new in ES2021

JavaScript is a living language, which means that it’s constantly evolving. This process is managed by the TC39 committee — a group of delegates from various large tech companies who oversee the JavaScript language.

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Parallelizing Cypress with Jenkins, AWS, and Sorry-Cypress

Cypress.io is an elegant end-to-end test runner for any front end project, and has become an industry standard. But for many enterprise-level projects, cypress tests stack up, and can take lots of time to run. This can slow down your CI/CD builds, and ultimately your project’s development.

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React Architecture: How to Structure and Organize a React Application

There is no consensus on the right way to organize a React application. React gives you a lot of freedom, but with that freedom comes the responsibility of deciding on your own architecture.

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Three Tips for Writing Meaningful Software Development Stories

So, how do you write development stories that describe your journey through a project? How do you avoid the pitfalls of seemingly disjointed backlogs that feel aimless? In the process of managing a project, it’s inevitable that you will need to write some development stories.

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Front-End Testing is For Everyone

Testing is one of those things that you either get super excited about or kinda close your eyes and walk away. Whichever camp you fall into, I’m here to tell you that front-end testing is for everyone.

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Trying Out GitHub Copilot. It's Really Magic!

GitHub Copilot took the web by storm a couple days ago. The "AI pair programmer" had some fancy gifs to accompany the announcement. It will help write code faster and will let you write less. Copilot draws context from your comments and your code to infer what code you'll want to write next.

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Multi-team Architecture Meetings

At Tableau, the Tableau Mobile team has around 30 people across 3 scrum teams. We mainly work on code in Tableau Mobile itself, but some folks also work on code in Tableau Desktop and the front & back end of Tableau Server.

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