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May 26, 2022

React state management libraries in 2022

Thursday, May 26, 2022 Teklinks

The React state management library is a constant topic in React community, but seems we are pretty settled recently with some obvious winners. This blog will focus all the popular choices and compare them so one can have a quick understanding of the libraries, and when to use them.

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Shipping to Production

Thursday, May 26, 2022 Teklinks

Great question. How you ship your code to production in a way that is fast and reliable, is a question more engineers and engineering leaders should educate themselves on.

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May 24, 2022

Creating Quality Software Takes More Effort and Skill, Not More Time

Tuesday, May 24, 2022 Teklinks

Software Development Is Misunderstood by non technical people, Quality is fastest way to get code into production. The common approach on software projects is fast, low-quality development, creating complex code, problems and stressful failing project. People question the cost of good developers.

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Comprehensive Guide To Jenkins Declarative Pipeline [With Examples]

Tuesday, May 24, 2022 Teklinks

Jenkins Pipeline is an automation solution that lets you create simple or complex (template) pipelines via the DSL used in each pipeline. Jenkins provides two ways of developing a pipeline- Scripted and Declarative. Traditionally, Jenkins jobs were created using Jenkins UI called FreeStyle jobs.

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May 22, 2022

What is declarative and imperative programming?

Sunday, May 22, 2022 Teklinks

In computer programming, there are two main types of programming: declarative and imperative. Today we will take a closer look at them. After reading this article you will know the difference between them and familiarize yourself with some declarative and imperative code examples.

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How to dynamically import JavaScript modules

Sunday, May 22, 2022 Teklinks

Have you ever felt the need to load a JavaScript module dynamically? Maybe you’re trying to load something from a folder but you don’t know the name of the folder, you generate it dynamically.

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May 21, 2022

4 Benefits of Choosing Next.js for a Building a Custom Web App

Saturday, May 21, 2022 Teklinks

Recently, I needed to create a web app for a company outside of the technology field. The company had never built custom software before. As always, it was important for me to make a wise technology decision. That allows me to empower my team and client to have an efficient and productive project.

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A pick of recent React articles

Saturday, May 21, 2022 Teklinks

We dedicated this week to React 18, but over time we have had many great articles related to React, which you may have missed, so let’s have a recap here! OpenReplay is an open-source alternative to FullStory and LogRocket.

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Eloquent Performance: 4 Examples of N+1 Query Problems

Saturday, May 21, 2022 Teklinks

Eloquent performance is typically the main reason for slow Laravel projects. A big part of that is a so-called "N+1 Query Problem". In this article, I will show a few different examples of what to watch out for, including the cases when the problem is "hidden" in unexpected places in the code.

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May 20, 2022

Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool

Friday, May 20, 2022 Teklinks

In the world of HTTP Headers, there is one header that I believe deserves more air-time and that is the Server-Timing header. To me, it’s a must-use in any project where real user monitoring (RUM) is being instrumented. To my surprise, web performance monitoring conversations rarely surface Server-Timing or cover a very shallow understanding of its application — despite it being out for many years.

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Agile Practices for Normal Life – Defining & Estimating Stories

Friday, May 20, 2022 Teklinks

In today’s entry in my series on Agile Practices for Normal Life, we’re going to take a deeper dive into our backlog. We’ll define our stories and estimate the effort to complete them. At this point, I’ve already dumped a chunk of “stories,” or to-dos, into my Pivotal Tracker backlog.

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Airbnb’s Microservices Architecture Journey To Quality Engineering

Friday, May 20, 2022 Teklinks

Achieving balance is an endless beginning. An equilibrium even harder to maintain when the business depends on software quality and speed to survive. Companies have the challenge of continuously delivering Quality at Speed software , constraining the software lifecycle with Quality Engineering.

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May 17, 2022

Here's everything Google announced at I/O 2022

Tuesday, May 17, 2022 Teklinks

For the first time since the start of the pandemic, Google’s annual I/O developer conference returned to the historic Shoreline Amphitheatre. In an in-person event that saw the company share details on its latest breakthroughs in AI, machine translation and more, Google also found time to outline some of the hardware it plans to release later this year.

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May 15, 2022

Functional JS #1: Introduction

Sunday, May 15, 2022 Teklinks

If you are a JavaScript developer, there’s a good chance you’ve come across concepts like “functional programming”, “functors”, “closures”, or “immutability”. You might be wondering what the heck all these things mean. Maybe you’ve already done some more reading.

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The Role of a Manager Has to Change in 5 Key Ways

Sunday, May 15, 2022 Teklinks

“First, let’s fire all the managers” said Gary Hamel almost seven years ago in Harvard Business Review. “Think of the countless hours that team leaders, department heads, and vice presidents devote to supervising the work of others.

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May 9, 2022

How To Give Effective Feedback Remotely

Monday, May 09, 2022 Teklinks

We need more good feedback in our world, and I don’t just mean the type of feedback that celebrates your good work. I’m talking about feedback that is actionable, specific, and kind; feedback that does not set us on edge or make us fall into an anxious spiral; feedback that helps us collaborate more effectively. The kind of feedback that is actually really hard to do when working remotely.

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Migrating 125.000 users from Auth0 to Supabase

Monday, May 09, 2022 Teklinks

Over the course of a few weeks, we gradually migrated 125k users with social auth and email+password logins from Auth0 to Supabase, including a webapp, native iOS app and a single-sign-on service. Let me give you a little backstory first for you to understand why and how we even came to this point.

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Agile Testing Quadrants

Monday, May 09, 2022 Teklinks

According to one of the 7 testing principles of the ISTQB Syllabus, “Exhaustive testing is impossible”, so it is not possible to test everything inside an application. Testing can be difficult in some situations and testers are always trying to identify what to test, and which technique to use.

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May 8, 2022

Need an Icebreaker? 50 Segue Questions for Software Teams

Sunday, May 08, 2022 Teklinks

At Atomic, when we transitioned to remote work, we came up with a themed standup for every day of the week. Once a week, it’d be Segue Wednesday. There are always lots of questions to ask, but picking the right one for the week is the hard part.

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Why Is Cypress the Best Automation Testing Tool?

Sunday, May 08, 2022 Teklinks

Cypress is the fastest, most reliable, and easiest-to-use automation tool for QA Testing. Cypress is a Node.js-based tool that can be integrated with any CI/CD pipeline. Cypress - The Test Automation Tool Cypress is the fastest, most reliable, and easiest-to-use automation tool for QA Testing.

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May 7, 2022

Adding Too Many Features Will Break Your Product, Users and Team

Saturday, May 07, 2022 Teklinks

If, like me, you’re from the Marty Cagan school of product development, you’re familiar with the construct of the triad as the core team responsible for defining and delivering products. Triad is shorthand for three roles, which balance out each other and are each responsible for a different kind of advocacy.

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Building a JavaScript Bundler

Saturday, May 07, 2022 Teklinks

Jest’s packages make up an entire ecosystem of packages useful for building any kind of JavaScript tooling. “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” doesn’t apply to Jest! In this article we are going to leverage some of Jest’s packages to learn how a JavaScript bundler works.

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May 5, 2022

Managing engineering teams outside your technical expertise

Thursday, May 05, 2022 Teklinks

The most common path to engineering management is through a technical leadership position with people responsibilities, also referred to as tech lead manager (TLM). In such roles, besides holding people responsibilities, the engineering manager also is a technical expert within the team.

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103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known

Thursday, May 05, 2022 Teklinks

Today is my birthday. I turn 70. I’ve learned a few things so far that might be helpful to others. For the past few years, I’ve jotted down bits of unsolicited advice each year and much to my surprise I have more to add this year.

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How to build remote teams properly

Thursday, May 05, 2022 Teklinks

While there were many skeptics of remote workspaces a few years back, most of the companies in the last year had to try out remote work in one way or the other. To their surprise, the effectiveness of the people did not drop when they worked from home.

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May 4, 2022

Implementing Feature Flags in a Next.js Application

Wednesday, May 04, 2022 Teklinks

Our job as developers often involves releasing new features regularly. However, how can we ensure that these features work properly in production before safely releasing them to all users? It's easy, by feature flagging!

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What is Yarn PNP (Plug'n'Play) and Should You Use It?

Wednesday, May 04, 2022 Teklinks

If you're starting a new TypeScript (or JavaScript) project, you might be using a newer version of Yarn to manage your dependencies. If so, you'll probably run into a new feature known as Yarn PNP(Plug'n'Play). This is particularly true because it's enabled by default.

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May 3, 2022

10 Books Every Senior Engineer Should Read

Tuesday, May 03, 2022 Teklinks

Engineers are natural readers. They take enormous pleasure in learning about new things, and books are the perfect medium to cover complex ideas in depth. At Semaphore, we’ve picked our favorite books — books that have profoundly influenced our company’s engineering culture.

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React Forms - Formik vs. Hook-Form vs. Final-Form

Tuesday, May 03, 2022 Teklinks

A fair comparison over three top-rated Forms Library for React: Formik, React-Hook-Form, and React-Final-Form - With code samples and validation. Hello! Forms are a crucial part of every application, from signing up, logging in, or collecting a survey from our users.

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May 1, 2022

Build a full-stack TypeScript app using tRPC and React

Sunday, May 01, 2022 Teklinks

You may already be familiar with the remote procedure call framework gRPC. Given the similarity in naming, you might be inclined to believe that tRPC is somehow related to it, or does the same or a similar thing. However, this is not the case.

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Engineering Metrics Benchmarks: What Makes Elite Teams?

Sunday, May 01, 2022 Teklinks

In 2014 the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team published their first State of DevOps report, identifying four metrics that can be used to measure engineering team performance. Six months ago the Data Science Team at LinearB decided to continue where DORA left off, digging deeper into the data than ever before.

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React Batching

Sunday, May 01, 2022 Teklinks

Batching in React describes the internal implementation detail of React which treats multiple state updates as one state update. The benefit: multiple state updates are batched as one state update and therefore trigger only one re-rendering of the component which improves the rendering performance especially for larger React applications.

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