In this post, I’ll discuss how I’m currently working to migrate a suite of apps from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes. The client chose this migration to align with more contemporary standards of container deployment and gain a more comprehensive feature set. Also, some products that they recently purchased were best supported as a Kube package. So you have a fuller …
Apollo Client: State Management for GraphQL Made Easy
In this post, we will explore Apollo Client integrated with a React application and how it provides an abstraction layer between a JavaScript application and a GraphQL server. The features Apollo Client offers make it a prime choice for devs also using GraphQL.
We’ll begin by discussing what Apollo Client is and how it can be advantageous over other state management libraries. And finally, we will look at some example React queries for retrieving and mutating data.
Let’s get started.
Beyond Agile: Dev Methodologies to Fit Your Project
Sometimes, Agile isn’t the best choice, even if it is the most highly touted. Sometimes, it’s worth thinking critically about the project and its requirements to select a methodology that works better. In this post, I will explore a few of those Agile alternatives.
Scripting Development Environment Setup with tmux
Recently, I found myself in a position that developers often face – setting up a complicated local development environment.
My mission: get 8-10 local services up and running using a variety of technologies to test my code prior to merging to a shared environment. Armed with several outdated READMEs, my terminal, and some dire warnings about which services would likely crash my machine, I dove in.
The following blog is my story of writing scripts that utilize tmux to impose some order on the setup process.
Server-Side Fun with Next.js
In this post, I will go over some technical details on how to work with server-side rendering in Next.js as well as some cool and helpful utilities to aid in file uploading, all done in React! We’ll take a dive into Static Generation, SSR, and Multi-Part Form Data Uploading using Next-Connect and Mutler.