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3 Big Takeaways from BigDataLDN

Nick Dyer

November 14, 2023

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Volunteering Beyond Borders: Empowering the Next Generation of Coders with Code Nation

Sunny Patel

November 09, 2023

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Strange Loop: Where Picasso Meets Python

Tom Kowal

November 02, 2023

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5 Benefits of an API-driven Approach in Microservices Architecture

Amir Moradabadi

October 31, 2023

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A First Timer’s Dive into 14 Years of Strange Loop

Ismail Karabulut

October 26, 2023

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Saving a Client Over $175k on AWS: Improving DevOps Practices, Upskilling Teams, and Advocating for System Simplification

Bart Bucknill

October 24, 2023

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Ensemble Programming: Tips for Software Teams to Survive and Thrive

Rani Zilpelwar

October 19, 2023

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5 Tips to Getting Started with Ensemble Programming

Rani Zilpelwar

October 19, 2023

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Internship Introduces Programming to High School Students

Kentaro Kaneki , Matt Readout

September 29, 2023

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A Recap of dev up 2023

Shawn Horvatic

September 26, 2023

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Create End-to-end Encryption Using the Diffie–Hellman Key Exchange

Amir Moradabadi

September 22, 2023

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QLearning: Teaching AI to play Snake

Emmanuel Byrd

August 04, 2023

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Four Books (and One Podcast) For Summer 2023

Eva PenzeyMoog , Nicole Carpenter , Hugh Sato , Kyle Sparks , Devlin Glasman

July 14, 2023

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Traveling the Industry with 8th Light’s Experts

Juan Santana , Hani Kruger , John Burrans

July 10, 2023

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How Principal Designer Kevin Zolkiewicz Blends His Passions Into a Career

Kyle Sparks

June 30, 2023

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Code Platoon Honors 8th Light as 2023 Partner of the Year

Kate Hamilton

June 28, 2023

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Step-By-Step Guide to Develop a Microservice-Based Application Utilizing an API-Driven Approach

Amir Moradabadi

June 23, 2023

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A History of JavaScript Modules and Bundling, For the Post-ES6 Developer

Devlin Glasman

June 16, 2023

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Observability In a Crime Scene

Andy Smith

June 09, 2023

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Gain Insights With Impact at sparkConf 2023

Nicole Carpenter

June 08, 2023

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Finding Creative Solutions With Design Thinking

Jon Wettersten , Agustin Sanchez , Hugh Sato

May 12, 2023

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Sparking the Passions of Young Coders With Code Nation

Kristin Kaeding

May 12, 2023

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Effective Use and Debugging of .gcloudignore, .dockerignore, and .gitignore

Emmanuel Byrd

May 05, 2023

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Congratulating 2023 Moxie Award Winner, Senior Crafter Jen Udan

Camille Shrouder-Henry

April 28, 2023

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Building Supportive Systems with Software Crafter Serene Henery

8th Light

April 21, 2023

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Exploring the Overlap of Development and Design with Coding Black Females

Camille Shrouder-Henry

April 18, 2023

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What Does An SRE Do?

Andy Smith

April 12, 2023

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What Is Code Rot, and How Can You Avoid and Fix It?

Robert Wenner

March 31, 2023

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Five Signs You Need To Make a Change To Your IT Project

John Burrans

March 30, 2023

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Deploy an App from Scratch to Kubernetes Before Your Next Break Ends

Rani Zilpelwar

March 28, 2023

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Deploying New Careers Together With Code Platoon

Nicole Carpenter

March 21, 2023

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Geographic Coordinate Systems 101: A Primer for Software Generalists

Justyna Jurkowska

March 16, 2023

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Level Up Your Software Development Career with These 4 In-Demand Skills

Juan Santana

March 10, 2023

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Building Bridges with 8th Light’s Employee Engagement Manager Kim Carten

Kyle Sparks

March 09, 2023

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An Introduction to Docker: Answering the What, Why, and How

Sunny Patel

February 21, 2023

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Making the Most of AWS and Kubernetes Certifications

Andy Smith

February 16, 2023

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What Every Developer Should Know About HIPAA and Other US Regulations

Kaitlyn Concilio

February 15, 2023

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6 Strategies to Move Your Technical Organization Forward in a Slow Economy

Steve Hennegan

February 14, 2023

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What Every Developer Should Know About GDPR

Kaitlyn Concilio

February 08, 2023

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Chasing Curiosity: Malisa Middlebrooks Followed Her Interests and Found a New Software Career

8th Light

February 03, 2023

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Ya Gotta Keep ’Em Regulated: Taking Legal Requirements Into Account As a Developer

Kaitlyn Concilio

February 01, 2023

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Three Tips To Help Software Teammates Ramp Up

Priya Patil

January 26, 2023

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3 Steps to Harnessing Product-Led Growth in a Challenging Market

Melanie Murphy

January 23, 2023

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What to Know When Becoming a DevOps Engineer

Seth Thomas

January 19, 2023

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Built In Honors 8th Light in 2023 Best Places To Work Awards

Kate Hamilton

January 11, 2023

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Unlocking Potential: Our Goals For 2023

Kate Hamilton

January 09, 2023

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Advanced Unit Testing in React with Jest: Hooks and Promises

Emmanuel Byrd

January 06, 2023

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What Sparked Our Joy In 2022

Kate Hamilton

January 05, 2023

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Finding Stability to Address Today’s Business Challenges

Kevin Kotowski

December 16, 2022

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Making the Most of 8th Light’s Interview Process

Camille Shrouder-Henry

December 09, 2022

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Minting a Revolutionary Entertainmint Platform

Connor Mendenhall

December 02, 2022

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Add Approval Testing to Your Toolbox

Andy Smith

November 29, 2022

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Leading 8th Light on the Next Part of Our Journey

Jenny Farver

November 21, 2022

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Celebrating National Apprenticeship Week

Ryan Verner

November 18, 2022

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What I Learned From My 8th Light Apprenticeship About How To Learn Programming

Grace L

November 16, 2022

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The Next Step for 8th Light

Paul Pagel

October 27, 2022

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Unboxing the New 8th Light Brand

Kate Hamilton

October 27, 2022

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Putting Our Skills to the Test at Web3 Hackathons

Connor Mendenhall

October 11, 2022

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Shifting Focus Beyond the Backlog to Prioritizing Customer Needs

Damon Kelley

October 04, 2022

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The Case for Rethinking Everything

Mike Danaher

September 30, 2022

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Why Everyone Is Talking About Product-Led Growth

Jenny Farver

September 29, 2022

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Make Developing Easier by Building a Beautiful Makefile

Emmanuel Byrd

September 20, 2022

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What You Should Know About Web3: A Primer For Developers

Connor Mendenhall

September 09, 2022

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Connect with 8th Light’s co-CEO Jenny Farver at SaaStr 2022

Kate Hamilton

September 01, 2022

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5 Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List

Robert Wenner , Nick Dyer , Kyle Sparks , Hugh Sato , Becca Townsend

August 11, 2022

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5 Modes of Critique to Improve Design Reviews

Jon Wettersten

August 09, 2022

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How To Set Up GitHub Actions

Emmanuel Byrd

August 02, 2022

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How Software Professionals Can Navigate a Competitive Talent Market During Uncertain Times

Juan Santana

July 29, 2022

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Researching Your Next Employer: 3 Ways To Set Yourself Up For Success In Your Career

Juan Santana

July 29, 2022

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How to Find the Value in Legacy Code

Brad Ediger

July 22, 2022

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CORSing Confusion: How To Leverage Cross-Origin Resource Sharing

Bart Bucknill

July 14, 2022

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How Rust Merges New and Old For Video Game Developers: A Q&A with Eric Smith

Kyle Sparks

July 12, 2022

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Completing a Golang Backend With Postgres

Emmanuel Byrd

July 07, 2022

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From Hospitality to Software, How Taylor Keazirian Changed Careers During the Pandemic

8th Light

July 05, 2022

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The Double Diamond: Finding Clarity in an Imperfect Illustration of the Design Process

Hugh Sato

June 16, 2022

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Code Nation Hackathon: Supporting the Next Generation of Coders

Kate Hamilton

June 14, 2022

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Sign-in with Ethereum Using Next.js and Go

Emmanuel Byrd

June 09, 2022

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From Desktop Computers to Applications: How Jeff Ramnani Continues to Learn Software

8th Light

June 07, 2022

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Why Everyone Should Learn Ethereum

Connor Mendenhall

June 02, 2022

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How Effective Abstractions Are Opinionated

Brad Ediger

May 31, 2022

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Congratulating 2022 Moxie Award Winner, Senior Crafter Jessica Chung

Camille Shrouder-Henry

May 20, 2022

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How To Bootstrap A Quality Golang Backend

Emmanuel Byrd

May 19, 2022

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Of Ducks and Go Interface Misuse

Bart Bucknill

May 10, 2022

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Leveling Up: How Apprenticeship Broadened Sunny Patel’s Developer Expertise

8th Light

April 26, 2022

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miniConf: A Hidden Driver of Continual Learning

Kyle Sparks

April 14, 2022

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What Is a Convolution? How To Teach Machines To See Images

Emmanuel Byrd

April 07, 2022

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Can't Remember That Slippery Git Trick? Try a Rhyme to Make It Stick!

Tony Distinti

March 31, 2022

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Simplifying to Scale Complex Software Systems

Kevin Kotowski

March 30, 2022

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Image Classification: An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Emmanuel Byrd

March 15, 2022

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Changing Careers: How Pedro Lopez Went From Research Engineer to Software Developer

8th Light

March 03, 2022

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Distributing Terraform Resources

Mike Knepper

February 17, 2022

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How To Deploy a Kotlin API With http4k and Heroku

Selina Chang-Yi Zawacki

January 25, 2022

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How to Solve Wordle (Without Spoiling the Fun)

Colin Jones

January 19, 2022

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Looking Forward to 2022

Kate Hamilton

January 11, 2022

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8th Light Awarded 2022 Best Places To Work Awards in Chicago, Austin and Los Angeles!

Kate Hamilton

January 07, 2022

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Growing a Community: How Nicole Carpenter Helps the Software Developer Community

8th Light

December 23, 2021

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Responding to the Log4Shell Vulnerability

Brad Ediger

December 15, 2021

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4 Questions on How to Have a Successful Software Career

Juan Santana , Camille Shrouder-Henry

December 09, 2021

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Built to Last: Naomi Dennis Develops a Brighter Future through Software

8th Light

November 23, 2021

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Reflections On Living In Data, by Jer Thorp

Hugh Sato , Kyle Sparks

September 28, 2021

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Documenting User Flows in FigJam

Hugh Sato

September 23, 2021

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Our History of Apprenticeship

Ryan Verner

September 01, 2021

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Sargable Queries & MUL Indexes; or Why My Query is Slow

Thomas Countz

August 31, 2021

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What Matters When Designing For Safety?

Eva PenzeyMoog

August 24, 2021

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Life After Moment.js

Justyna Jurkowska

June 16, 2021

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6 Tips For A Successful Job Interview

Joe Tanner

May 25, 2021

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A Color Coded Guide to Ports and Adapters

Damon Kelley

May 18, 2021

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Minimally Privileged Terraform

Mike Knepper

May 11, 2021

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Static Site Deploy Previews on AWS

Colin Jones

May 04, 2021

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Introducing 8th Light's Board of Directors for 2021

Paul Pagel

April 29, 2021

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Continuous compliance on AWS

Connor Mendenhall

April 27, 2021

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In Slack, no one can hear your scream!

Ian Carroll

April 20, 2021

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The World's Your Stage: An Interview with Senior Crafter Ian Carroll

8th Light

April 13, 2021

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Learning to Learn With Metacognition

Sam Jones

April 06, 2021

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Jon Wettersten joins 8th Light as Head of Design

Paul Pagel

March 29, 2021

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SQL, JSON, and Domain Objects

Andrew MacMurray

March 16, 2021

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Dependency Injection in React

Rani Zilpelwar

February 18, 2021

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A Case Study in Vim Script 101: Making a Test Runner

Tony Distinti

January 05, 2021

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Simple Ways to Make an Impact

Rani Zilpelwar

December 15, 2020

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Jenny Farver joins 8th Light as co-CEO

Paul Pagel

December 08, 2020

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Dare to be Good Enough—You'll be Happier for it

Thomas Countz

October 06, 2020

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Your Values are the Rules You Break

Stephen Prater

September 15, 2020

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Improving Agile Process at Scale

Doug Gapinski

September 01, 2020

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A maintainable, scalable front-end

Hugh Sato

July 28, 2020

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How E. Coli Taught Me To Work Smarter

Travis Petersen

July 07, 2020

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On Anxiety, Uncertainty, and Flow

Travis Petersen

June 30, 2020

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ExState: Database-backed statecharts for Elixir and Ecto

Kevin Buchanan

May 20, 2020

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Problems When Scaling Fails–and Solutions

Sarah Sunday

May 13, 2020

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Difficult Decisions During the Pandemic

Paul Pagel

May 08, 2020

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8th Light is Partnering With Health Worker Data Alliance to Support Frontline Health-Care Workers

Paul Pagel

April 22, 2020

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Reducing Operational Expenses by Going Serverless with AWS

Sarah Sunday

April 14, 2020

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From Web Dev to Android

Dave Torre

April 07, 2020

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8LU Livestreams: A New Way to Stay Connected and Keep Learning

8th Light

April 01, 2020

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How 8th Light is Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Paul Pagel

March 30, 2020

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Mitigating the Risks of Small Development Teams

Malcolm Newsome

March 19, 2020

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8th Light Invests in Premium Remote Software Development Company, One World Coders

Paul Pagel

March 17, 2020

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How can you move from a business operating on spreadsheets to custom software? Part 2

8th Light

March 10, 2020

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How can your business move from operating on spreadsheets to custom software? Part 1

8th Light

March 03, 2020

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The Iowa Caucus App and the Challenge of 'Going Live'

Brian Pratt

February 25, 2020

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Introducing 8th Light Austin

Paul Pagel

February 19, 2020

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Teaching ReactiveX (and a lot of other things) Like Skiing

Eric Smith

January 28, 2020

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Introducing Our New Career Grid

Claudia Richman

January 21, 2020

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Axes of Quality

Colin Jones

January 14, 2020

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Developments in Mobile 2FA and Security Keys

Colin Jones

December 17, 2019

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How to Write Flexible and Clear Unit Tests

Rani Zilpelwar

December 10, 2019

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Tickets for Specialised Teams

Nick Dyer

December 03, 2019

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Back to Basics: Abstraction

Brian Pratt

November 26, 2019

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One Sentence a Day

Colin Jones

November 12, 2019

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Polyglot Influences in Python

Mike Knepper

November 05, 2019

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Functional lessons learnt

Javier García

October 29, 2019

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Tips for Technical Writing

Martin Gaston

October 22, 2019

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Escape Hatches: Principles vs. Guarantees

Colin Jones

October 15, 2019

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OAuth2 and OpenID Connect Essentials for Web Developers (Part 2)

Kyle Krull

October 08, 2019

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"Works on my machine" doesn't work

Colin Jones

October 01, 2019

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To Serve or Not to Serve: Amazon Aurora Serverless

Sarah Sunday

September 24, 2019

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What is Software Architecture?

Ignacio Piantanida

September 17, 2019

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OAuth2 and OpenID Connect Essentials for Web Developers (Part 1)

Kyle Krull

September 10, 2019

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Placing a Craft CMS application behind AWS CloudFront

Justyna Jurkowska

August 20, 2019

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Handling Blocking Threads in Java

Francesca Sadikin

August 01, 2019

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Rich Feller Joins 8th Light’s Leadership Team

Paul Pagel

July 18, 2019

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8th Light merges with Madriska

Paul Pagel

July 08, 2019

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We're All Humans

Kim Carten

July 02, 2019

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Effective Slack alerts

Connor Mendenhall

June 25, 2019

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

Marion LV

June 18, 2019

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Why keeping levels of abstraction matters

Javier García

June 11, 2019

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Unit Testing Code Boundaries

Ashley Bye

June 04, 2019

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Remote Team Workflows

Sarah Sunday

May 28, 2019

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Tutorial: Add a Menu Bar Extra to a macOS App

Casey Brant

May 21, 2019

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AWS Security Essentials

Colin Jones

May 14, 2019

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Some Common Gotchas in Python

Shibani Mookerjee

May 07, 2019

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X Marks the Spot (Part 3): A Strong Fit

Chris Wilson

April 30, 2019

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Working with the Enemy: Why Blockchain Adoption is a Social Problem

Lucas PenzeyMoog

April 23, 2019

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One Neat Trick To Avoid Rewriting Your Software Product

Doug Bradbury

April 16, 2019

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X Marks the Spot (Part 2): ReasonReact

Chris Wilson

April 09, 2019

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From 0 to 60 in Brand Design

Kelly Rauwerdink

April 02, 2019

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Engaging Girls and Empowering Women in Tech: An Interview with Jessi Chartier

Lydia Lindenberg

March 26, 2019

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X Marks the Spot (Part 1): ReasonML

Chris Wilson

March 19, 2019

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Fundamentals of Design: Colour

Daisy Mølving

March 12, 2019

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Product Owner's Guide to Investment Portfolio

Li-Hsuan Lung

March 05, 2019

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Types of Types in Elm

Mike Knepper

February 26, 2019

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Essential & Relevant: A Unit Test Balancing Act

Thomas Countz

February 19, 2019

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NEW: Beyond the Buzzword: Navigating the Blockchain Hype - A Field Guide from 8th Light

Lydia Lindenberg

February 12, 2019

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I'm Only Going To Say This Once - Don't Repeat Yourself!

Dan Pelensky

February 05, 2019

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Rachel Wendte on How to Boost Learning Through Finding Your “Design Foil”

Eva PenzeyMoog

January 29, 2019

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Functional Exceptions In Java

Brian Gerstle

January 22, 2019

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The Future of Work: The Evolution of Apprenticeship Onboarding at 8th Light

Ryan Verner

January 15, 2019

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Rip Up The Resume: Changing the Game for Building Teams

Claudia Richman

January 08, 2019

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So, You Want to Be an Agile Functional Manager?

Li-Hsuan Lung

January 03, 2019

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Tech to Watch in 2019

Colin Jones

December 27, 2018

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Do You Need a Degree?

Eric Smith

December 18, 2018

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Here's What Happened: Dave Hoover Introduces Ethereum Fundamentals and a Peek at Solidity

Rob Mulholand

December 11, 2018

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The True Cost of Rewrites

Doug Bradbury

November 27, 2018

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A New Approach to State Management with the React Context API

Becca Nelson

November 20, 2018

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What to Look for at RubyConf 2018: Jeremy Hanna and Molly Struve Previewed Their Talks at 8th Light

Nicole Carpenter

November 13, 2018

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4 Hesitations When Asking for Help and How to Overcome Them

Tam Dao

November 06, 2018

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Jack of all trades, Master of One

Makis Otman

October 30, 2018

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Sharing Secrets with GPG

Aaron Lahey

October 23, 2018

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What’s in a Name?: Domains and Domain Name Servers

Avni Kothari

October 16, 2018

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An Introduction to Database Indexing

Kyle Annen

October 09, 2018

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Learning New Programming Languages by Building on Existing Foundations

Severin Perez

October 02, 2018

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What is VS Live (VS Code) and Why Should You Care?

Dave Torre

September 25, 2018

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Microservices Aren’t Magic: Handling Timeouts

Colin Jones

September 18, 2018

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

Paige Watson

September 11, 2018

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Dependency Inversion in React with Render Props

Becca Nelson

August 30, 2018

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Exploring Error Handling Patterns in Go

Kyle Krull

August 13, 2018

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

Sam Szreter

July 24, 2018

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

Paul Pagel

June 29, 2018

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The Hypermedia Maturity Model

Jason Desrosiers

May 30, 2018

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Diagnosing Problems Quickly

Sarah Sunday

May 21, 2018

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Decoupling the Client and Server with Hypermedia

Jason Desrosiers

April 11, 2018

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Duration vs. Concurrency in AWS Lambda

Colin Jones

April 09, 2018

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Basic Web App Architecture 101

Sarah Sunday

April 04, 2018

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Talking to Yourself: Daily Standups in a Team of One

Ian Carroll

March 27, 2018

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Turning Up The Good On REST APIs

Jason Desrosiers

March 21, 2018

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Making a Static Website with Jekyll and S3

Sarah Sunday

February 14, 2018

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The Biggest Software Mistake That Small Business Owners Make

8th Light

November 15, 2017

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Advice for Early-career Developers

Colin Jones

October 24, 2017

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Legacy Code: Spying On Global Functions

Christoph Gockel

October 23, 2017

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Framework Seams

Mike Knepper

September 20, 2017

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Myths About Unit Tests

Fabien Townsend

September 19, 2017

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AWS Do's and Don'ts

Sarah Sunday

September 15, 2017

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How to Grow a User Group, the Remix

Ray Hightower

September 13, 2017

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New Leadership for ChicagoRuby

Ray Hightower

September 07, 2017

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How JSON decoding works in Elm—Part 3

Kofi Gumbs

August 29, 2017

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Refactoring React

Josh McCormick

August 21, 2017

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Diversity, Inclusion, and 8th Light

Paul Pagel

August 14, 2017

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The Principles of Chess and Software

Ian Carroll

August 09, 2017

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Does the open/closed principle apply to Elm?

Rob Looby

August 08, 2017

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Project Build Protocol

Jeff Ramnani

August 07, 2017

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Managing Cloud Resources with CloudFormation

Jeff Ramnani

July 19, 2017

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A Conversation with Jessi Chartier from App Camp for Girls

Becca Nelson

July 18, 2017

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How JSON decoding works in Elm—Part 2

Kofi Gumbs

July 17, 2017

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Hedy Lamarr: More Than the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

Elizabeth Engelman

July 10, 2017

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How JSON decoding works in Elm—Part 1

Kofi Gumbs

June 28, 2017

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API Assumption Tests

Christoph Gockel

June 14, 2017

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Scope And Closures In Javascript

Jarkyn Soltobaeva

June 13, 2017

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How to set up a React project without flipping tables

Rabea Gleissner

May 26, 2017

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Two Design Patterns You're Probably Already Using

Becca Nelson

May 22, 2017

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A Case for Amazon's Elastic File System

Sarah Sunday

May 18, 2017

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The Core of Erlang

Kofi Gumbs

May 02, 2017

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Using an Elixir Umbrella

Georgina McFadyen

May 01, 2017

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Forcing Function in Software Development Processes

Li-Hsuan Lung

April 24, 2017

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Working Effectively with Offshore Teams

Georgina McFadyen

March 27, 2017

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Build as Much as You Can

Jerome Goodrich

March 23, 2017

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