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Temporal Is a Swiss Army Knife For Your Distributed Systems

Bitovi’s Backend Consulting team has had the pleasure of working with Temporal for several different use cases over the last few years. Temporal has greatly simplified complex distributed systems and helped our team focus more on achieving business goals and to spend less time handling errors, among many other things. Temporal isn’t a silver bullet, but it is helpful in a variety of different situations.

Kevin Phillips

Kevin Phillips

Director of Backend Development

Backend

Node.js Consulting 101: Breaking Down Technical Requirements

A skill our Node.js Consulting team practices often is the process of breaking down new product requirements into actionable technical requirements. This is one of the most critical capabilities for a developer to learn in order to help their organization swiftly deliver new features to their users. In this post, we’ll talk through the process we use on our projects.

Kevin Phillips

Kevin Phillips

Director of Backend Development

Backend

Day.js: A Convenient Alternative to Moment.js for Node.js Consulting

With the phasing out of the popular datetime library Moment.js, one of our Node.js consulting clients wanted to prioritize finding a replacement. We ultimately chose to migrate to Day.js, a minimalist JavaScript library. Among the alternatives, Day.js offered many advantages, chief among them being that it is lightweight and the most syntactically close to Moment.js.

Nicole Greene

Nicole Greene

Backend

The Best Software Architectures to Use for Node.js Consulting

Working in Node.js consulting on the backend API team, I‘ve had the opportunity to work with various architectures, including Model-View-Controller (MVC) and Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP).

Marshall Thompson

Marshall Thompson

Developer

Backend

Four Lessons I Learned Node.js Consulting for a Fortune 500 Company

For the last few years, several members of my team and I have been working with a Fortune 500 global company to help build a Node.js ecommerce platform. We learned many valuable lessons along the way. Lessons we feel are too valuable not to share.

Kevin Phillips

Kevin Phillips

Director of Backend Development

Backend

What's New in Node.js and GraphQL for 2023?

Lots of things change year over year, especially in backend development. GraphQL, as well as Node.js, are no exception! We’ll cover some background context for the changes leading up to 2023 and then highlight the most relevant changes that happened last year. Without further ado, let’s hop in!

Emil Kais

Emil Kais

Backend

Comparing Schema Validation Libraries: AJV, Joi, Yup, and Zod

Overwhelmed by the options for schema validation? Comparing tools can be confusing. With so many options, how do you know which one is best for your needs? In this post, we’ll compare AJV, Joi, Yup, and Zod in their functionality and usability.

Roy Ayoola

Roy Ayoola

Backend

PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, & MongoDB: Choosing a Database for a Node.js App

If you're looking for a database for your Node.js application, Postgres, DynamoDB and MongoDB are all great options.

George Ijidola

George Ijidola

Backend

Use LocalStack to Build a Development Environment for a Serverless App

Local development environments allow you to speed up both development and the feedback cycle for your Serverless apps. The LocalStack plugin gives you the tools to build local development environments quickly, accessing mock AWS services without credentials.

Austin Kurpuis

Austin Kurpuis

Backend

Implement Event Sourcing and CQRS in Node.js

Think Event Sourcing and CQRS are just new buzz architectures that can’t be put into practice? Think again! This post will show both the theory behind Event Sourcing and how to implement Event Sourcing and CQRS in your project.

Roy Ayoola

Roy Ayoola

Backend

Stateful Mock Server: One Library to Mock Them All

While there are many tools available that assist with mocking, at least when it comes to GraphQL, none of them supports a very desirable feature: statefulness. We at Bitovi went on a mission to create a tool to mock with ease and speed while using XState to maintain stateful flexibility.

Nauany Costa

Nauany Costa