Sometimes your Rails routes file can be out of control, too complex, or too big. A few strategies to better organize your controllers and routes.

I joined LinkedIn about six years ago at a particularly interesting time. We were just beginning to run up against the limits of our monolithic, centralized database and needed to start the transition to a portfolio of specialized distributed systems. This has been an interesting experience: we buil

Writing testable code is a vital skill in software engineering. Let’s explore practical advice, strategies, and tactics for writing more testable code, unlocking the benefits of modularity…

I've been thinking about the consequences of the "wrong abstraction."  My RailsConf 2014 "all the little things" talk included a section where I asserted: duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction And in the summary, I went on to advise:

This week we’re talking to Mike McQuaid, project leader and longest tenured maintainer of Homebrew, a...

This week’s issue gives you a decentralized framework for driving architectural decisions using simple practices, supporting a high-documentation / low-meeting culture. So, let’s dive in. Postman's VS Code Extension (Sponsored) Postbot is now available across Postman with enhanced capabilities! The latest refresh of Postbot now offers a consistent, conversational interface available to you across your workspace. Learn how you can leverage Postbot throughout Postman to get contextual assistance.

The Architects Choice

When I joined Graphite, there were almost no tests in the entire codebase. Out of the team of five engineers, three had previously worked at Meta — and had internalized the poor testing culture practiced there.

Opinionated best practices for building user-friendly and robust REST APIs.

“Clean Code” has garnered a bit of notoriety despite coining an endearing term we use in coding conversations. This book from 2008 is a compilation of principles and studies that &#8220…

Let’s analyze the various types of metrics and how to design a minimum viable process to use them for good.

The dangers of DRY, the web of WET, the awesomeness of AHA.

You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their vision for the future of React, some of my favourite libraries got scrambled 😅. In this blog post, we’re going to explore the compatibility issues between React Server Components and CSS-in-JS libraries like styled-components. You’ll understand what the issue is, what the options are, and what’s on the horizon.

Ruby and Rails have several features to make your code more performant using async programming. Here’s a list of these tools and how to use them.

Variations on a Classic Design Pattern for Modern Applications

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Few salient reasons why I think some programmers aren't keen to refactor code.

37signals have talked a lot about how they build new features for existing products using Shape Up, where they carefully hammer the scope to avoid letting anything ever drag on for more than six we...

useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the performance of our applications in certain contexts. I recently used it to solve a gnarly performance problem on this blog, and in this tutorial, I'll show you how! ⚡

I really liked @abbeyperini post and decided to share my tips after 5+ years as a software...

Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) A component should have only one reason to change,...

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Open source Next.js serverless adapter

Decision tree series At Precision Analytics, we focus on finding the best tools to address the scientific question in front of us and machine learning is one useful option. Decision trees are a good place to start learning about machine learning because they offer an intuitive means of analyzing and predicting data. We wanted to showcase an application of decision trees in heath and related sciences, though the content will be equally relevant to other disciplines.

Everything you want to know about a decision tree, theory and implementation.

Error state, loading state, awkward breakpoint, bad data, poor formatting, browser support. Every component can result represent hundreds or thousands of discrete visual states. How do you test it? Manually disable the network — temporarily. Insert bad code — just for a minute. Paw at the edge of your screen. Hack local database fixtures to bits. Frontend development has so many dimensions. Time and variation result in an infinite number of UI possibilities. In this talk, we'll use Storybook to progressively develop, test, and document our work — automating the grunt work of UI development.

Where you store your application data has enormous impacts on your entire application. There are implications on the entire stack based on what you decide to...