Introduction to AWS CloudWatch
AWS CloudWatch is a monitoring solution that’s provided by Amazon Web Services. It’s really a big service that contains a large collection of monitoring tools.
AWS Lambda: pricing model and pitfalls
The pay per use pricing model of function as a service makes it appear to be really cheap. For a lot of workloads, it is really a lot cheaper and maybe even free. There’s a lot of costs that can quickly add up and surprise businesses.
5 Best Practices for Daily Scrum Meetings
The daily scrum meeting should be a very short 15 minute time boxed event so that the team can synchronize activities and plans for the next 24 hours.
Doing SR&ED Claims More Efficiently
SR&ED stands for Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED). SR&ED is a tax incentive for completing scientific research and experimental development.
If you don’t do the upfront work and create the needed systems to document time, failures, and learnings you will have a very difficult time making a good claim and a really difficult time standing in front of a CRA auditor.
10 JavaScript Array Methods Every Programmer Should Know
Arrays are usually used to store a list of elements that need to be accessed by a single variable.
I believe that to use JavaScript effectively every developer should be able to use any one of these methods on an array. These methods can save a lot of lines of codes and also allow us to do some pretty awesome function programming!
How to Resolve Serverless error: lambda is not a function
When trying to invoke any of your lambda functions if you are getting an error that says “lambda is not a function” the problem is likely that the handler is misspelled in the serverless.yml file OR you aren’t exporting modules.exports.handler and are instead exporting something else.
Automatically Compressing Images With NodeJs
Over the years, I’ve worked on a number of projects where we deal with user or company provided images which are often very large resolutions which take a long time to download on mobile phones or or poor internet connections.
This is a simple script that can be used to compress images and avoid potential costs of a service like Kraken.io
Caching Data Within Aura & Lightning Web Components
The Lightning Data Service really simplifies our development within Aura and within Lightning Web Components.
Implementing caching within Salesforce Lightning is really easy!
Enabling SuiteScript in a New NetSuite Instance
One of the first things I do, when taking over a NetSuite instance is making sure that SuiteScript support is enabled.
How to Remove Duplicates From An Array in JavaScript
As a JavaScript developer, there’s occasionally a need to remove duplicates from an array of values.
By using our knowledge of advanced data sets we can write a lot less code and take advantage of built in features in JavaScript.
Introduction to the Knex.js Database Module
Knex is a JavaScript / Node.js library that is designed to make working with relational databases easier. Knex.js is a SQL query builder.
It has the potential to make tdd and database versioning much easier.
Differences Between Traditional and Cloud Computing Environments
If you have been working with technology for longer than a few weeks, you’ve probably heard about using “cloud computing” or “cloud providers”. Cloud computer is dramatically changing technology departments all over the world. Traditional data centres consisted of large amounts of hardware that were connected to a network and generally was on the same…
Simple Git Ignore File For NodeJS
Here’s a simple gitignore file that I start with most NodeJS projects.
6 Tips For Better Handling Traffic Spikes
As a software developer, and technology manager, I’ve had a lot of experience in the past with variable website traffic.
In the past, I’ve worked on business to consumer information websites, I’ve worked on payment gateways and even on a few ecommerce sites.
How to query Lightning Components Using SOQL
One of the most beautiful things of the Salesforce platform is that almost everything can be queried. Lightning components can be queried pretty easily.
My favourite debugging techniques
I believe that debugging is one of the most important technical skills a developer can have. In the average week, I probably spend anywhere from 20 – 30 percent of my time debugging. This is because my code isn’t perfect, sometimes it does legitimately only work on my machine or device.
Joining Caddle
As a software developer, I’ve always been interested in working on things that I could potentially use and benefit from. For a long time, that’s meant that I worked on little projects for things I could use at home or for various side hustles. A few months ago, I became aware of a startup located…
What does data do?
As humans, we use data every day. Sometimes when we use data it’s completely subconscious – we don’t even realize we’re doing it. When we count the number of emails in our inbox, we can predict just how busy our day is going to be.
What is the minimum should one know to get a job as a backend developer?
Backend developers work primarily on the server side of development, typically any scripts, databases, or architecture. Code written by backend developers typically helps communicate database information to the browser or mobile app.
How to replace jQuery with Vanilla JavaScript
As a programmer, and technology manager I think it’s really important to use the right tools and technologies. There are times where I think jQuery is still really valuable but there are a lot of times where I don’t think it is valuable.