ViteJS (Vite) has rapidly emerged as one of the most exciting tools in the modern web development ecosystem. Vite offers developers a highly efficient and flexible build process with sane defaults to get a project up and running quickly. One of the many features that makes Vite truly stand out is its extensible Plugin API. … Read More
Earlier this year at PhillyETE, we had a great talk by Avdi Grimm and Jessica Kerr, REPLs All The Way Up: A Rubric For Virtuous Feedback Loops. In this talk, one of the key theses was to find ways to make exploring your code easier, via REPLs, scenario setups and other means. Many years ago … Read More
In this post I walk through several execution plans, explain what Redshift is doing in each, and highlight the parts of plans that indicate problems.
Are you running a database with RDS? Would you like to manage it via migrations? This article explains how to use AWS CodeBuild to keep a database schema updated using Flyway, an open-source data migrations tool. Configuration is outlined via CloudFormation snippets. An AWS example repository is provided.
Introduction Today’s small microcontrollers offer impressive functionality and provide an opportunity to replace older, more expensive software and hardware. Consider the case where a facility wants to have control over devices or equipment, with rules that evaluate telemetry from sensors and activate, deactivate or regulate equipment and other devices. Many large facilities have systems in … Read More
Writing AWS Lambda functions using the Serverless Framework makes it easy to manage dependencies that your functions depend on as far as third-party packages or keeping track of the AWS resources that your service utilizes. The Serverless Framework automates a lot of the resource allocation and packaging of the functions with a CLI tool named … Read More
Keep it simple, stupid. The KISS principle is one of my favorites. Often we are guilty of making systems unnecessarily complex. This creates a miserable cycle of working with these things that we create. Does it have to be this way? Go was designed with simplicity and ease of use top of mind. I’m claiming by using Go to build your next server/service the benefits will go beyond the performance of your software.
An overview of Spring Cloud Sleuth; a simple way to get the power of distributed tracing in your Spring Boot applications. Covers implementation, examples, and common pitfalls.
React developers who tested their components using the Enzyme library in the past have been migrating over to the react-testing-library lately. Find out how you can migrate and take advantage of the various features it offers.
In this post I take a look at SWR, a data fetching API from Vercel. This API can automatically refresh, cache data, and handle pagination. It has special integrations with Next.js. A github sample repo is available.
