Backend

REST API best practice in a GraphQL world

GraphQL is taking the world by storm and it is wonderful. But in the real world, you're still dealing with REST APIs aren't you?

What happens when you push AWS credentials to GitHub

The day I crashed production 4 times

TypeScript for serverless lambda backends 👌

A few months ago I inherited a Kotlin project. It was an unfinished prototype and all I had to do was wrap it up and deploy. Every time I touched the project, it broke. Nothing worked. Wouldn't run on my machine, wouldn't read API requests, couldn't get tests working, if I changed some code I broke it all. That's when I realized learning a new field is super hard

Serverless Chrome on AWS Lambda, the guide that works in 2019 and beyond

Learning a new field is super hard, I get it now 😅

Logging 1,721,410 events per day with Postgres, Rails, Heroku, and a bit of JavaScript

Time is funny in Ruby

Slack lied to me

Lesson learned, test your migrations on the big dataset

Kids, always remember to clear your intervals

My new favourite Javascript trick

Using returns and callbacks in the same function. Sounds like crazy talk I know, but hear me out, I have good reason. I think.

About achieving polymorphism in Javascript

CircleCI - sexy continuous integration for private repos

I infiltrated another Rails Girls event, #RailsGirlsMb

First impressions of Rails as a Javascripter

The trials and tribulations of a large-ish dataset

I infiltrated #railsgirlslj, here's what it was like

Testing socket.io apps

Symfony and the scary world of PHP

Amdahl's law in action - 27s to 0.03s by changing a function

Blackbox testing node.js apps

Remember to feed your sysadmins

My language is better than yours

How to make your django app slow

Heroku, mongo, node.js - a problem

A lesson about client-side templating

Simple trick for testing forms full of checkboxes with django

Parsing JavaScript with JavaScript

Quick and easy way to getting burned by nginx