Databases & Denormalization - Faster queries for faster retrieval
Whether you are designing a NoSQL Database or a traditional RDBMS Database, one way to optimize to ensure faster retrieval is to denormalize but that's not the best (or even the first) solution. You w...
24 Marras 20239min
Reusable UI components (React and beyond) - both presentational & functional
When building UI screens (on mobile apps) or pages (on web apps), you want to focus your energies on your specific business problems. What you don't want to do is spend time reinventing the wheel. #sn...
24 Marras 20239min
Caching - What to Cache, and When to Cache (Part 3)
Caching is a broad topic (what isn't?). In this podcast, I've only tried to scratch the surface. How do you determine what to cache? And once you do, how do you go about it? #snowpal aws.snowpal.com l...
24 Marras 20239min
Caching - Are you optimizing before identifying the problem? (Part 2)
If your pages take too long to render, caching may be a solution but before you go all out and start implementing or improving it, ask yourself if there are other fundamental problems that need addres...
24 Marras 20238min
When looking to make performance improvements, it is natural to look for that ”single” big problem. But, that’s hardly ever the case.
I've worked on making performance improvements across all tiers, and in a variety of ways within any given tier, during the course of my career and one thing I can say with a good degree of certainty ...
24 Marras 20238min
Keep your code DRY. As in, super DRY! Code duplication is a maintenance nightmare.
You have to make a conscious effort to keep your code base DRY. Every time you make a change, add a feature, or fix a bug, make an effort to find duplication and to determine design patterns. This wil...
24 Marras 202315min
Libraries vs Frameworks (based on my rather loose definition of it!) - What’s your preference?
Some of us prefer a framework that offers a lot more than what we might initially want, while others prefer a library that is small and simple but offers the barest minimum. Based on that simplified d...
24 Marras 202312min
Should you implement that next requirement now, later or never?
Before you implement something, ask yourself if it needs to be implemented at all. #snowpal #softwaredevelopment #requirements Subscribe to our APIs on aws.snowpal.com.
17 Marras 20233min
