Once upon a time, there was a Sr Developer who thought he was irreplaceable. He worked for the same company since its inception. He architected the main web app and set up all infrastructure. He went through 5 CTOs, migrated from AWS to Azure and back, fixed innumerable bugs, and…

There is an understated art to building good APIs — ones that are easy to integrate with, have high operational availability, offer readily attainable performance insights, and are easy to maintain. …

Install these powerful VSCode extensions to significantly improve your productivity during web development. — Visual Studio Code is one of the most widely-used source code editors out there, with over 136k stars on GitHub. Its popularity comes about due to its lightness, flexibility, open-source nature, simplicity, and extensibility. Speaking of extensibility, VSCode has thousands of extensions you can install to ramp up your developer…

Aesthetically Pleasing… After shuffling through a lot of ideas about what should be my next blog post, I decided to go with a fairly simple one this time: How to create a visually appealing GitHub Profile Readme. You all knew this was coming right? Some of you might be thinking…

Full form of YAML: Previously it was ‘Yet Another Markup Language’ and currently it is ‘YAML Ain’t Markup Language’. YAML is basically a data format used to exchange data. And in this, we can only store data but not commands. Data Serialization: This means a process of converting data objects…

Beyond Application Development — The advent of smartphones in 2007 by Apple with the launch of the iPhone, marked a new era for businesses as well as tech hobbyists, and although many did not know how exactly these small sophisticated devices would change the world they knew, in the course of time, it became…

The technical lead (or tech lead) is a common role at software companies. One of the challenges in defining the tech lead job description is that the shape of the role varies widely from company to company — sometimes even from team to team. That said, everyone from product managers…

TLDR: react-hook-form is a powerful library for handling form, it reduces the number of re-render because it’s embracing the uncontrolled way of handling form. You will often use useForm hook provided by the library to use its power. This hook is explained in section 2a. useForm. Validating a form in…

5 Ways Deployments Go Wrong and 5 Solutions — All happy cloud deployments are alike; each unhappy cloud deployment is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy, Site Reliability Engineer At Gruntwork, we’ve had the chance to see the cloud adoption journeys of hundreds of companies, from tiny startups to Fortune 50 giants. We’ve seen many of those journeys…

Deploying your application to production can become quite expensive on AWS if you don’t take the time to think about your infrastructure. …