Chariot Day 2022: Finding the Signal in the Noise
One of the greatest joys of working at Chariot is having coworkers who are curious and eager to share their knowledge.
Turbopack benchmark numbers questioned by Vite creator, Evan You
In the most recent release of Next.js, an alpha of a rust-based build tool was made available in alpha as a preview. This tool, Turbopack, is written by a team that includes the Webpack founder, Tobias Koppers who recently joined Vercel. Turbopack build performance claims During a presentation by Turbopack engineer Maia Teegarden benchmarks were displayed comparing the performance in various build frameworks for hot module reloading (HMR), the process of hot-patching a running React application after saving changes to…
Next.js 13 is released with a new powerful build system and layout engine
Next.js 13 is now available – big changes and a new build system Yesterday Vercel announced Next.js, the latest version of their server-powered React platform. Vercel has been innovating in the JavaScript application server space since their inception in 2013. We had a talk on Next.js in 2017 at Philly ETE from the founder, Guillermo Rauch, where you can see him laying out the concepts and his vision for where the platform was going at the time, specifically the concept…
Twenty Years of Big Data
More, cheaper, faster: our own Keith Gregory recounts the changes in big data, data storage, and data engineering over the last two decades.
Limiting Cross-stack References in CDK
Several years ago I wrote CloudFormation Tips and Tricks, in which I gave the advice to “use outputs lavishly, exports sparingly.” The reason is that when you export a value from one stack and import it into another you bind those stacks tightly together, and can’t change that exported value. For example, you might create one stack with an ECS task definition, and then in a second stack create a Lambda and an EventBridge rule that triggers it when the…
Twentieth Anniversary Lookback: Smartphones and Mobile Apps
We’re celebrating 20 years in business —and during that time, we’ve seen some seismic shifts in mobile development.
A 20th Anniversary Look Back in Technology: Tom Purcell
Tom Purcell, a consultant and founding member of the Chariot Solutions team, has seen technology come and go. On our 20th anniversary in business, Tom gives us a humorous look back to the tools and technologies that came, went, and stayed since Chariot became a company in 2002.
One Chariot Consultant’s View: a 20th Anniversary Look Back in Technology
This month marks our 20th anniversary, and we’re celebrating by looking back on how we started Chariot, how we’ve grown and what we’ll do in the future. I’ve been with the company for 15 of those 20 years. Our founder, Mike Rappaport, recently posted a great history of the company that covers our overall philosophy, so I’ll avoid repeating any of that content. In this article, I’m going to focus on how software engineering at Chariot has changed over the…
Dial-Ups & Discipline: A Twenty Year Journey
I am very proud of what we have accomplished at Chariot over the last 20 years. I thought I could give some perspective on how we started, and what I’ve learned over this time.
AWS Lambda Development with Serverless Framework and LocalStack
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 “serverless”. When I develop serverless functions they can be difficult to debug without actually deploying the functions and that’s why I’ve incorporated the Serverless Offline…