Spring Cloud Sleuth: A Simple Approach to Adding Distributed Tracing
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.
JavaScript default exports aren’t always fun, or how I wasted 4 hours
JavaScript exports can be a bit tricky. They are either named or the default, and how you pull them in has to match exactly. Find out how making a mistake in importing the wrong default caused me half a day of debugging confusion in my React/Next.js application.
Migrating from Enzyme to React Testing Library
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.
Managing Internet Access for AWS Workloads
Two months ago I didn’t give much thought to controlling a program’s access to the Internet. Then Log4Shell happened. This post looks at three ways that you can control what an in-VPC application is allowed to talk to.
SWR, an automatically refreshing datasource for React and Next.js
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.
Omicron Worsening Existing Tech Talent Shortages
While we are not immune to the challenges of the pandemic and have had to deal with staffing shortages like everyone else, our history of remote work and updated hiring/retention policies have helped us succeed in this most difficult time.
Simplify and standardize your Redux configuration with Redux Toolkit
The Redux team has developed a toolkit to simplify and standardize some of the techniques used to roll out a Redux-based solution. Known as the Redux Toolkit, it implements some design patterns that can help you write less code and organize it effectively. Read on to find out how it can streamline the configuration of your Redux application.
Prepare Your Business Now to Respond to the Next Big Security Flaw
Our team recommends 3 best practices to help your organization react quickly and decisively to the next inevitable security concern.
Side Project Spotlight: IoT with Al Iacovella
Building a holiday light display for his own home spurred Al Iacovella’s interest in microcontrollers, data, and the internet of things.
Using Cloud Deployments To Mitigate Log4Shell and Similar Vulnerabilities
It’s been a week since CVE-2021-44228, a remote code execution vulnerability in Log4J 2.x, hit the world. Hopefully by now everybody reading this has updated their Java deployments with the latest Log4J libraries. But no doubt there’s another vulnerability, in some popular framework or library, just waiting to make its presence known. This post is about Cloud features that act to minimize the blast radius of such vulnerabilities.