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The Serverless Stack (SST) Platform

Ken Rimple | June 20, 2022

Serverless Stack (serverless-stack.com) is another rapid serverless application development platform for AWS. SST (as it is also known) promises to streamline development and allow local debug of AWS Lambdas. It uses the AWS CDK and a set of its own constructs and configuration settings to make building serverless applications easier, and provide a more helpful developer experience by providing live debugging and updating of Lambda functions at development time. Lambdas support JavaScript, TypeScript, Golang, Python, C# and F#, though at…

A Look Back to Philly ETE 2022

Becca Refford | May 4, 2022May 4, 2022

A killer keynote by Cory Doctorow, a lively audience, and lots of new tech: here’s what our team enjoyed most about Philly ETE 2022.

Why you should be writing your microservices in Go

Joey Pestonit | March 30, 2022May 9, 2022

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.

Spring Cloud Sleuth: A Simple Approach to Adding Distributed Tracing

Steve Wood | March 17, 2022March 18, 2022

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

Ken Rimple | March 8, 2022March 17, 2022

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

Ken Rimple | February 3, 2022June 20, 2022

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

Keith Gregory | January 26, 2022November 21, 2023

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

Ken Rimple | January 24, 2022January 27, 2022

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

Michael Rappaport | January 20, 2022

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

Ken Rimple | December 23, 2021March 17, 2022

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.

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