"User interaction numbers are down."

Most of the time when this happens, nothing is wrong. But we can't be certain without checking. So several developers blow up a day of work, affecting deadlines on promised projects, trying to figure out what's causing the UI numbers to drop. 

AWS is an essential tool in many developers’ toolboxes, but using AWS in a development environment can be tricky. Developers who just want to write some code are often frustrated using the AWS console and setting up AWS services.

LocalStack to the rescue!

LocalStack is a service that mocks AWS locally in a docker container on the your computer. With LocalStack, you don't need to worry about connecting to an actual AWS server. This post will walk you through setting up a docker container running LocalStack so that you can run AWS services locally.

Scully is a “Static Site Generator for Angular apps” that enables Angular apps to pre-render pages with dynamic content to improve performance metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Time to Interactive (TTI), and others which are used by Search Engines to rank your website.

When you provision and configure the infrastructure and software that forms an application, you’ll end up with data that needs to be securely stored for later use.  This data can range from the default user password to an authentication token to an SSL certificates master key.

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GraphQL is a popular alternative to REST APIs. GraphQL has the potential to simplify and optimize frontend code. In this blog post, we'll demonstrate how to query for data from a GraphQL backend in an Angular application.

When should you start thinking about building a design system?

Wade:

Dark Patterns are used on websites, apps, and software. These patterns are intentional – designed to trick users into signing up for a subscription, making a purchase, or spamming their friends and families. There are eleven identified dark patterns; in this post, we break down and discuss how six of them work.