Learn about the ‘brain spans’ concept and discover the guidelines to write code that is easy to read and flows like a story.
The Secret Art of Storytelling in Programming
Dan Ackerson
20 Oct 2022
Dan Ackerson
Automate Your React Native Release Process With Semantic Release, Fastlane, and Semaphore
Learn how to set up Semantic Release and Fastlane for releasing React Native apps on Semaphore efficiently.
Dan Ackerson
13 Oct 2022
How to Use Rubocop for Your Team’s Rails Apps
Learn how to add Rubocop to your Rails applications today for incremental improvements on the style of your code.
Dan Ackerson
11 Oct 2022
Improving Security in Your CI/CD Pipeline
This article will take you through a few preventative steps to help you keep your CI/CD pipeline secure.
Dan Ackerson
6 Oct 2022
Microfrontends: Microservices for the Frontend
Can we take microservice architecture patterns and apply them to the frontend?
Dan Ackerson
29 Sep 2022
Database Management With CI/CD
Don’t waste your DBA talents, automate database management with continuous integration.
Dan Ackerson
27 Sep 2022
4 Reasons Why You Should Prefer Vite Over Create-React-App (CRA)
Unlike CRA, Vite does not build your entire application before serving, instead, it builds the application on demand. It also leverages the power of native ES modules, esbuild, and Rollup to improve development and build time.
Dan Ackerson
22 Sep 2022
Become an Elite Team With Dora Metrics
Elite teams are thousands of times more productive than the rest. DORA metrics can help your team ship code at a faster pace.
Dan Ackerson
14 Sep 2022
Applying the Test Pyramid Concept to Ruby on Rails Apps
This article explains how the test types available on Rails and Rspec relate to the different levels of the pyramid, helping you determine how many of each type to write.
Dan Ackerson
8 Sep 2022
Why You Need an API Layer and How To Build It in React
Learn what an API layer is, some of the many benefits it can provide to your architecture, and how to implement it in React.
Dan Ackerson
16 Aug 2022
A Developer’s Guide to Terraform
Terraform is one of the most popular IaC tools available. Learn its benefits and how to use it.
Dan Ackerson
4 Aug 2022
How to Restructure Your Organization for Microservice Applications
Restructuring your organization to support microservice-based applications requires an entire culture shift and new way of working.
Dan Ackerson
2 Aug 2022
When Microservices Are a Bad Idea
Migrating from a monolith to microservices is not a simple task, and creating an untested product as a new microservice is even more complicated. Microservices should only be seriously considered after evaluating the alternative paths.
Dan Ackerson
28 Jul 2022
Testing Strategies For Microservices
Microservices, by their networked nature, provide more points of failure than a traditional monolith. As a result of this, we need a different, broader approach to testing.
Dan Ackerson
20 Jul 2022
5 Options for Deploying Microservices
From VMs to Kubernetes and Serverless, there are many ways of to deploy microservices. The perfect method is determined by size and scaling requirements.
Dan Ackerson
14 Jul 2022