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Here’s What Happened: Five Things We Learned About Unit Tests from David Scott Bernstein

Learning, sharing, growth. Those three things are what brought together 60 software crafters on a Thursday evening in Seattle, Washington. David Scott Bernstein, the author...more.

Dependency Inversion in React with Render Props

I remember the day when I “discovered” dependency injection. I was having a difficult time testing a console view, and all of my mocking strategies...more.

Exploring Error Handling Patterns in Go

When you're learning another language, there can be periods of frustration where you're having trouble expressing an idea that would have been easier in a...more.

Don't call us, we'll call you: Inversion of Control Containers

sam szreter
24 Jul 2018
Coding

The journey from global variables to managed dependency injection When writing object-oriented code, we inevitably end up with some objects that are either unique (we...more.

8th Light teams up with Adorable, opens new office in Madison, Wis.

I’ve been fortunate throughout my career to be mentored and influenced by my peers. 8th Light belongs to a community of software that is more...more.

The Hypermedia Maturity Model

This is part three in a series about hypermedia and REST. You don't need to read the previous post to follow this one, but if...more.

Diagnosing Problems Quickly

sarah sunday
21 May 2018
Bugs
Support

Everything is on fire. Okay, not really. One thing is on fire. Or is it? You have no idea. The client knows. The client knows...more.

Decoupling the Client and Server with Hypermedia

This is part two in a series about hypermedia and REST. You don't need to read the previous post to follow this one, but if...more.

Duration vs. Concurrency in AWS Lambda

[Updated 2018-04-16] I was corrected on Twitter about how Event (async) invocation throttling behaves, and have updated this post accordingly in several places marked like...more.

Basic Web App Architecture 101

Okay, so you want to build a web app. Let's use a very basic web application for instance. The user story is this: The user...more.

Talking to Yourself: Daily Standups in a Team of One

“Talking to yourself is a sign of insanity, you know.” The last time someone said that to me was sometime in the 20th Century. I...more.

Turning Up The Good On REST APIs

This is part one in a series about hypermedia and REST. If you like this and want to read more, check out the full series....more.

Making a Static Website with Jekyll and S3

If you need to make a marketing website for your business, aside from the branding and design aspect, your main concerns are probably: Will the...more.

The Biggest Software Mistake That Small Business Owners Make

Since we created our Managed Software Services unit to focus squarely on Software Support and Maintenance services, I've had the opportunity to work with and...more.

Advice for early-career developers

Several times a week I get emails or LinkedIn messages from recent or soon-to-be code school graduates, asking to buy me coffee or jump on...more.

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