As of September 2020, Moment.js—probably the most popular JavaScript library for handling dates—became a legacy project in maintenance mode. As the Moment team explained: It...more.

Job interviews are an inescapable reality of the labor market, and unfortunately they’re still an imperfect science. Different companies will have different qualities they’re looking...more.

Ports and Adapters is an architecture pattern that aims to decouple your application from the details. By details here, I mean things like: Your web framework...more.

By default, every newly created AWS resource lacks permission to perform any actions. AWS strongly recommends following the security practice of granting least privilege, i.e....more.

There are tons of options out there for deploying websites, but my default approach for years has been: dump it in an S3 bucket with...more.

We founded 8th Light to be a place where our philosophy of approaching software as a craft could thrive. As we’ve grown and evolved, this...more.

A looming deadline. A long list of requirements handed off to the team without their input. No room for flexibility. Just one shot to get...more.

Hey, my name’s Ian. I’m a Senior Consulting Software Engineer at 8th Light’s Pod Services division. And I have struggled with remote collaboration for a...more.

8th Light’s modern apprenticeship program allows us to hire software professionals from a wide range of backgrounds, and Ian Carroll is no exception. In an...more.

Software is a complex and ever evolving domain. As software developers, this means that, in order to stay on top of changes in the field,...more.

8th Light is pleased to announce that it has greatly advanced its mission to be the partner of choice for ambitious software development projects by...more.

SQL databases are amazing. They give you tools to create extremely powerful guarantees about the integrity of your data, evolve that data over time, and...more.

Dependency injection is a form of inversion of control. This means that a component’s dependencies are not part of a component’s internals, they are defined...more.

"Hello there, what's this?" you ask. It's a case study in how one might use Vim script, a programming language built in to Vim. We'll...more.

Software engineering can be incredibly complex. There are a variety of tools, software patterns, architectural decisions, and process flows. This can be daunting for a...more.