A Pragmatist’s Guide To Lean User Research

Even a small amount of user research can save so much time. Instead of telling you once again what the best practice is and adding to your imposter syndrome, let’s concentrate on some practical approaches to user research that we might be able to fit into our existing projects without being left disillusioned.

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What Does Being a Good Leader Mean? Making Life Easier for Your Team

If you look up the dictionary definition of leadership, you’ll see a lot of very straightforward references to decision-making power, influence, etc. This is what people are referring to when they say things like “the leadership of the company.

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Using Bun.js as a bundler

Bun.js is a new (as of 2023) JavaScript runtime that is still very much in development, with it’s primary focus being on extreme speed. I’ve been following it for a while but until today haven’t had a good excuse to use it.

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How to host your side-projects for free in 2023: from Auth to Database

In this article, we'll look at how you can host your side project for free in 2023. We'll cover authentication, databases, website hosting, backend hosting, cron jobs, and key-value stores.

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300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's Total Blocking Time

Have you ever been frustrated from interacting with a website that was slow to respond to your clicks or had jerky scrolling? Performance flaws like these can lead to the following:

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Monorepos By Example: Part 1

Through practical example we explore monorepos. Definitions vary, but we define a monorepo as follows: The repository contains more than one logical project (e.g.

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Complete guide on Playwright visual regression testing

As the world of coding continues to evolve, so must our testing strategies. As a result, a modern trend known as visual regression testing is gaining traction. Visual regression testing is essentially a spot the difference game for your app, ensuring that new updates haven't led to unwanted visual changes for your end-users.

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The Art of Effortless Programming

AIDD has changed the game. Like Agile and TDD before it, you can now draw a line in the history of the software industry, with huge productivity gaps between the two sides: Before AIDD and after AIDD. AIDD will impact human productivity on the same scale as the invention of the computer.

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15 Best No-Code Platforms to Build Amazing Apps in 2023

In recent years, no-code platforms have gained significant traction, enabling non-developers and developers alike to create amazing apps without writing a single line of code. These platforms empower people to bring their ideas to life quickly and efficiently.

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Unveiling the Magic: Exploring Reactivity Across Various Frameworks

Have you ever wondered how reactivity works in your favorite framework? Well, you are in luck, as we are going to take a deep dive into reactivity in this article and compare how the frameworks differ to understand them better.

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How to design software architecture: Top tips and best practices

You wouldn’t want to jump into a project without a solid plan, and software architecture design is no different. By making this process more effective, you can account for all of your requirements properly and give stakeholders the opportunity to provide their input.

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Monorepo setup with Lerna and Yarn workspaces

For the last six months we’ve been building a node.js microservices framework for one of our customers. This framework is composed of many interdependent packages. In this scenario, having one git repo for each package would be a burden.

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You Might Not Need React Query

Will React Server Components kill React Query? This is probably the question I'm getting asked the most for the past couple of months. And the thing is: I have no good answer. Remember: Like most devs in this industry, I'm also just making things up as we go.

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Stories from our survey: Salary in the time of pandemic

Salary growth in the tech world surged during the pandemic. From the three surveys conducted from 2020-2022, we collected developer responses on their roles and salaries at the time.

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Running Large Language Models Natively on Mobile and Laptops

MLC LLM is a new open source project aimed to enable deploying large language models on a variety of hardware platforms and applications. It additionally includes a framework to optimize model performance for each specific use case.

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How do we get a tech team to make a big technical change?

The bigger the change we’re making to a code base, the more obstacles we have to overcome. No time before the deadline. Business won’t cooperate. Intractable technical constraints.

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React with TypeScript

TypeScript's features and developer experience make a great combination with React, but it can be confusing to get started. That's where this React with TypeScript tutorial comes in!

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React Server Components, Next.js App Router and examples

There were recently a number of discussions in the React community around the state of Server Components, the Next.js App Router and the future of tooling and rendering approaches. Here's my attempt at a brief summary of concepts and discussions for folks that want highlights.

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How I used Midjourney to design a brand identity

By now, it’s no secret that AI will considerably impact the future of branding and design—making us question how we can continue to provide irreplaceable value as designers.

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Level up monitoring and reporting for your enterprise

GitHub is the software development platform trusted by millions of developers. With this trust comes a responsibility to constantly improve our security, audit, and compliance solutions with the developer in mind.

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How to Test Custom React Hooks with React Testing Library

Mastering Visual Editing with a Headless CMS live stream Thursday @ 10 am PST. Register Now Custom React hooks offer developers the ability to extract and reuse common functionality across multiple components. However, testing these hooks can be tricky, especially if you are new to testing.

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My Struggle With Remix

I've been putting off this article for way too long. It's time for me to talk about my experience with Remix, and my struggle with it in particular. I won't lie, part of the reason I was reluctant to write this piece was the community the framework has cultivated around itself.

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Martin Fowler Was Right: Microservices Suck*

Andrew Hunt and David Thomas’ “The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master” is by far one of the most popular books among software developers, yet I wonder just how many software engineers actually read the thing.

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How Wix Accelerated Open Platform Dev with Standardized APIs & Schemas

Over the past few years, Wix has experienced tremendous growth in both scale and complexity. From a WYSIWYG visual website editor to a complete ecosystem of features that empowers self-creators and design agencies to create professional websites, and allows anyone from individuals to large enterprises to manage their online presence and business.

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Accept Conway’s Law in Big Projects

Conway’s Law states that “organizations which design systems… are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.” It’s a principle that highlights the relationship between the systems being built and the organization’s structures.

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You Want Modules, Not Microservices

tl;dr Architecture is hard sometimes--people keep offering up some new idea that quickly becomes the mainstream "way to do it" without any context or nuance, and the industry, desperate to find ways to improve their architecture, snaps it up without hesitation.

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Technical Debt vs. Opportunity Cost: Striking the Balance in Software Development Projects

This post is part of a series on amplifying value delivery through project strategy and technical dynamics. Check out the previous entries on the compounding value of developer time, how execution details contribute to this, and systematically exploiting opportunities for background.

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How I used GitHub Copilot to build a browser extension

For the first time ever, I built a browser extension and did it with the help of GitHub Copilot. Here’s how. I’ve built a rock, paper, scissors game with GitHub Copilot but never a browser extension.

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Build a Multistep Form With React Hook Form

Multistep forms a.k.a. wizard or funnel forms have a wide range of uses. They are most common when collecting different types of information into one data structure but are also useful for breaking down very large forms into the less user-intimidating multistep process.

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Grok React Server Component by Quizzes

React Server Component is a new React architecture introduced by the React team at the end of 2020. It enables developers to render components on the server side, thereby boosting performance and reducing client-side code size.

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How to land a job in climate tech

Last week, we outlined some reasons why a role in climate tech is a smart move for engineers seeking more meaning and purpose at work. It’s unlikely that the perfect role is going to come to you; however.

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Monoliths are not dinosaurs

Building evolvable software systems is a strategy, not a religion. And revisiting your architectures with an open mind is a must. Software architectures are not like the architectures of bridges and houses.

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Improving React Testing Library tests

React Testing Library (RTL) became a de-facto standard when it comes to testing React components. Focus on testing from the user's point of view and avoidance of implementation details in the tests are some main reasons for its success.

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Playwright's UI Mode - watch mode and time travel debugging

Are you looking for a more efficient way to execute and debug your end to end tests? Look no further than Playwright's UI Mode. In this guide, we'll explore the features of Playwright's UI Mode and show you how to take advantage of them for your test automation needs.

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The Benefits of Implementing Blue/Green Deployment in Your CI/CD Pipeline

What exactly is Blue-Green Deployment? Blue-green deployments refer to a Continuous Delivery technique that aims to eliminate deployment downtime and enables almost instant rollbacks. The method involves setting up two production environments, Blue and Green, that are nearly identical.

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Practical Guide To Not Blocking The Event Loop

JavaScript runs in a single-threaded environment with an event loop, an architecture that is very easy to reason about. It’s a continuous loop executing incoming work. Said work can schedule more of it for the future.

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50+ ChatGPT Prompts for Web Developers

If you're tired of tedious and repetitive coding tasks and want to optimize your efficiency, you're in the right place. With the power of ChatGPT, you can streamline your workflow, reduce errors, and even gain insights on improving your code.

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Use Boundaries to Make Your Project Fit Your Team Size

If you’ve spent any time in the software product team space, you’ve probably heard a lot of opinions about the ideal team size and structure. Small, two-pizza teams are most effective. Teams who deliver end-to-end features are best.

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How we built the Tinder API Gateway

Tinder API Gateway (TAG) is one of the critical frameworks at Tinder that solves the need of exposing public APIs and enforcing strict authorization and security rules. It’s engineered to meet Tinder’s custom need to fit perfectly in its current cloud infrastructure, and can be scaled as required and maintained without any external support.

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Platform as a Runtime (PaaR) - Beyond Platform Engineering

​​Platform Engineering is something I’m personally very excited about and we at Wix have been practicing it for over a decade (before the name “platform engineering” was coined).

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5 topics you should touch on during the recruitment process

The recruitment processes can be weary and after answering countless questions you only think about leaving the interview, but you should never lose an opportunity to ask your interlocutors some questions. Why? There are a couple of reasons.

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Adventures in Garbage Collection: Improving GC Performance in our Massive Monolith

At the beginning of this year, we ran several experiments aimed at reducing the latency impact of the Ruby garbage collector (GC) in Shopify's monolith. Everything described in this article was a team effort, huge thanks to Jason Hiltz-Laforge for his extended knowledge of our production platform, to Peter Zhu for his deep knowledge of the Ruby garbage collector, as well as to Matt Valentine-House, Étienne Barrié, and Shane Pope for their contributions to this work.

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Qwik Reaches v1.0

The Qwik team is excited to announce that Qwik has reached v1.0. Qwik is a full-stack web framework that brings a fundamentally new approach to delivering instant apps at scale! Frameworks such as Angular, React, Svelte, SolidJS, and their meta frameworks (Next.

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Creating a React Library Using TSDX and Automating Publishing with GitHub Actions

React is a popular library for building web applications and creating reusable React components can save a lot of development time. TSDX is a tool that helps in creating, testing and publishing React libraries.

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Here’s How to Give Better Feedback

As part of the Accelerator program at Atomic Object, we read the book “Thanks For the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well “by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heed.

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How to train your own Large Language Models

Large Language Models, like OpenAI's GPT-4 or Google's PaLM, have taken the world of artificial intelligence by storm. Yet most companies don't currently have the ability to train these models, and are completely reliant on only a handful of large tech firms as providers of the technology.

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gitStream vs Code Owners vs GitHub Actions

Code review is an essential part of all your software development projects. But sometimes, your org follows an inefficient PR process, applying the same sets of policies to every pull or merge request, regardless of the change.

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