Programming
What is a Product Manager?
A product manager is the person responsible for the creation of a particular product for a company or organization.
Category: Programming
Cloud Computing
What is an Enterprise Service Bus?
An enterprise service bus (ESB) is a software architecture that allows for the integration of enterprise applications and services. Since an enterprise service bus is a middle layer communication tool there are a number of great features that might exist.
JavaScript
Mapping Over a NodeList in JavaScript
In JavaScript a NodeList is an array-like list of objects. One thing to remember though is that array methods will not work on a nodelist because it's not an array! In this article, we talk about how to map over a NodeList.
Programming
Why you shouldn’t use GraphQL
GraphQL is gaining traction in the software development world because it offers an alternative to the traditional REST architecture. Here's why I don't think it's ready for common use.
NetSuite
NetSuite: Setting the Default Value on a Screen
When starting to develop on NetSuite it can be a pretty frustrating experience because the documentation reads more like marketing speak than a recipe guide of how to do something. In this blog post, we walk through how to set a default field in NetSuite.
Cloud Computing
Introduction to Aurora RDS
Aurora is part of Amazon Web Service's Relational Database Service. Aurora is a MySQL or PostgreSQL compatible database build for the cloud.
Programming
What I Wish I Learned as Junior Developer
After ten years or so of working in technology, I thought it was time to put together some thoughts. There's a lot of things that matter as a technologist, but writing code is only one of many.
Cloud Computing
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.
JavaScript
How to Delete node_modules on Windows
Deleting node_modules on Windows 7 and Windows 10 can be a frustrating experience if you try to do it from Windows Explorer or Command-Line because the file path names tend to get really long.
Cloud Computing
Writing to S3 from AWS Lambda
To write to Amazon S3 from an AWS Lambda function in Node.js, you can use the AWS SDK for JavaScript in Node.js.
Cloud Computing
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.
jQuery
Using jQuery in Salesforce Lightning
Up until recently, if you were building websites you pretty much always used jQuery. jQuery really simplified working with the browser document object model (DOM) and doing really custom animations. In this blog post, we go through how to jQuery with the Lightning Locker Service turned on.
Cloud Computing
Reducing Cloud Costs in AWS
It's not secret that the cloud can be a lot cheaper than running hardware in our own data center. Unfortunately, a lot of AWS accounts spend a lot of money they don't need to because of automation or things not getting shut off. In this blog post, we'll cover some of the ways to reducing Cloud Costs in AWS.
JavaScript
20 Vanilla JavaScript Project Ideas
With that being said, here's a collection of ideas on things you can build in vanilla JavaScript without requiring libraries or frameworks. To be able to understand what the frameworks and libraries are doing for us, which is required when debugging hard problems, it's important to understand the concepts.
JavaScript
NodeJs: ReferenceError: fetch is not defined
As you may have noticed, fetch doesn't work in Node.js. The fetch API isn't implemented in Node, so you need to use a package that implements it and then use that.
JavaScript
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!
Cloud Computing
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.
JavaScript
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
Programming
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!
NetSuite
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.