RDS Database Upgrade via Terraform: Lessons Learned
January 13, 2023
Upgrading an RDS database to a newer version in AWS via Terraform is a straightforward process. I learned a few lessons along the way, and I hope my lessons save you time and energy. Let’s jump in!
Improve Team Velocity with an Efficient Code Review Process
January 9, 2023
This post is focused on how a team can build an effective process around code reviews. If you want to know how to conduct an effective code review, check out What Does a Good Code Review Look Like?
What Does a Good Code Review Look Like?
January 9, 2023
This post is focused on the code review itself, but a great team must also build a process around reviewing code. Check out Improving Team Velocity With An Efficient Code Quality Process
Open Source BitOps: v2.1-2.3 Updates
January 6, 2023
It’s been a while since BitOps v2.0.0 introduced extensibility via plugins and a core platform rewrite with Python. Since then, we’ve been working hard—experimenting and gathering feedback, exploring...
You Should Be Building & Scaling Products with a Design System
January 3, 2023
Design Systems make product development faster and easier for everyone involved. Products can be spun up, tested, and launched in weeks with the most basic design system in place. With a more robust...
Angular & Apollo Client: Apollo Cache Configuration
December 16, 2022
Apollo-client might be a go-to library for connecting a frontend application to a GraphQL server; however, it was originally built as a comprehensive state management library. Apollo client’s cache...
React Everywhere with Vite and React-to-Webcomponent
December 13, 2022
React is the most popular frontend web development library in use today. However, there’s a problem. Competing frameworks undermine what could be a ubiquity—React, as far as the eye can see, an...
PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, & MongoDB: Choosing a Database for a Node.js App
December 9, 2022
If you're looking for a database for your Node.js application, Postgres, DynamoDB and MongoDB are all great options.
Angular 14: Three Can't-Miss New Features
December 7, 2022
Angular 14 introduced three big, new features:
How to Provide Valuable Product Design Feedback
December 5, 2022
At Bitovi, receiving feedback and iterating on design work is integral to our daily operations. Collaboration is essential to improve our work, whether we're performing an internal review amongst our...
8 Best Practices for Perfect CSS Documentation
In the world of CSS, documentation is underused. Since documentation is not visible to the end user, its value is often overlooked by clients. Also, if it’s your first time documenting code, it can be difficult...
Envato Tuts + Article
The Key to Building Large JavaScript Apps: The Modlet Workflow
You're a developer working on a "large JavaScript application" and you've noticed some issues on your project. New team members struggle to find where everything is located...
CSS-Tricks Article
Streaming Data with Fetch() and NDJSON
Streams are trickling into the scene as we search for ways to improve performance. What if instead of waiting for our entire ajax response to complete, we could start showing...
David Walsh Blog Article
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