# SST Making serverless easier
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SST is a framework that can be described as a wrapper around CDK for AWS. It focuses on taking the power of CDK and adding local development magic such as live lambdas (actual AWS infrastructure in…
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# Micro-frontends (MFE): Why should I add the complexity
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I will be the first to say that I am very hesitant when it comes to micro anything. Microservices are traditionally done very poorly.
# The cost of quality
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Martin Fowler writes about the quality of software in the article "Is quality worth the cost". I tend to believe this notion from personal experience.
# Vue JS
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I recently had the pleasure in building a Vue ecommerce website for a large company in Australia. I was pretty appraensive about using it, mainly because all my frontend experience is in React and…
# Leaving the codebase in a better state than you found it
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I once worked for a company that threw away their frontend, React Native application before even releasing it to the public. Well, part of it was because the idea was flawed, user testing highlighted…
# Be a rubber ducky, find a rubber ducky
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One thing that every programmer will face in their career is being stuck on a problem. This could happen once a week, once a month or one a year, but at some point, it will happen.
# GraphQL Queries with Node
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Today I wanted to show you how you would build a very simple NodeJS backend complete with GraphQL. This will be more of an intro to GraphQL and it makes it easy to use something like Node as most…
# Basic Unit Testing In Elixir
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One thing that every programmer must do is test their code. Many languages have ways of testing them, some hard to use some easy to use.
# Think about the whole stack
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Software engineers are usually divided into two groups, backend and frontend. Sometimes you will have people that are full-stack but for the most part, they are either one or the other.
# Planning things out before you start
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One thing we really try to do at Our Very Own is planning. Before we start any major piece of work or any piece of work at all other than a very small feature, we sit down and plan out what it is we…