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Is Your Mindset Limiting Your Ability To Solve Technical Problems?

Today we have a short story and a quick tip on how to reframe your thought process when your up against an “unsolvable problem”.

A Love/Hate Relationship With JavaScript

As an engineer and software developer I think JavaScript is okay. As a Web Application Architect my thoughts are much different.

Happy New Year! - 2024 Goals And Office Tour

Here is a quick Youtube video giving you a peak behind the scenes of the channel as well as a preview of what is to come in 2024

2 Commands To Avoid To Write Low Latency SQL

There are a lot of ways to speed up your DB like adding indexes, sharding, and not doing joins on joins on joins but let’s start with some super basic redflags I look for before making any advanced changes.

Is Your ORM Making Your Site Slow?

ORM Are No Excuse For Not Knowing What SQL Is Hitting The DB

Flush Out Risk Now Before It Causes Fires Later

Have you been burned by underestimating how long a task will take? Here is one of the best ways I have seen to get a head of potential problems when estimating projects with a team

Pre Build Your Indexes

Is a search engine part of your product? Learn how to make it lightning fast with Pre-Built Indexes

AWS APIGateway Latency Metrics Madness

What does it mean when the Latency and Integration Latency metrics invert?

Starting With The Goal In Mind

What metrics really matter when engineering a solution to a problem?

Happy New Year 2024

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