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Placing a Craft CMS application behind AWS CloudFront

Using CDN to prevent performance issues of content management systems Craft CMS is a content management system that allows a team to organise and edit...more.

Handling Blocking Threads in Java

Thread Basics Let's start from the beginning—what is a thread? A thread stores the information necessary for your computer to execute some part of your...more.

Rich Feller Joins 8th Light’s Leadership Team

I am excited to announce that Rich Feller has joined 8th Light’s team as a new Vice President of Product Design & Delivery. We know...more.

8th Light merges with Madriska

I am thrilled to announce that 8th Light has agreed to merge with Madriska, the general web-development consultancy based in Chicago. Madriska’s owner and only...more.

We're All Humans

Kim Carten
02 Jul 2019
Community

When I joined 8th Light three years ago, I wasn’t sure what to expect. It was a major adjustment. I had just left my job...more.

Effective Slack alerts

"I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power." — Don DeLillo, Underworld...more.

"Tech" Care of Yourself: strategies for better mental health in tech

Have you ever noticed how programming can sometimes feel like you are in a foreign country playing charades with a shopkeeper tucked away in their...more.

Why keeping levels of abstraction matters

Most developers who have been in the profession for at least a couple of years have heard of software principles, if not read about them...more.

Unit Testing Code Boundaries

Ashley Bye
04 Jun 2019
Testing

When I first learned to unit test my software, I noticed that I struggled to test code that interacted with components at the boundaries of...more.

Remote Team Workflows

Being in the same room as the people you are working with is not a luxury we all have. Sometimes we are remote from the...more.

Tutorial: Add a Menu Bar Extra to a macOS App

Intro In this post, I’ll give you a quick rundown of how to create a Menu Bar Extra for your macOS app. The Apple Dev...more.

AWS Security Essentials

Colin Jones
14 May 2019
AWS
DevOps
Quality

Aaron Bedra gave a fantastic talk when he was with Jemurai where he laid out some of the most important areas of thinking around security...more.