Backwards Compatibility Issues - a few ways to ensure that you do not run into them
You cannot afford to make Backwards Compatibility an after thought. As your system grows, and your user base grows, you are going to continually add new features and services, and some of them will re...
24 Nov 20239min
Native Mobile App - Design Patterns & Separation of concerns (Part 1)
(Part 1) Separation of concerns is important to keep your native mobile app modular and becomes especially important when your app integrates with 100s of APIs. You want to ensure that your app is res...
24 Nov 20239min
Native Mobile App - Design Patterns & Separation of concerns (Part 2)
(Part 2) Separation of concerns is important to keep your native mobile app modular and becomes especially important when your app integrates with 100s of APIs. You want to ensure that your app is res...
24 Nov 20239min
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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 20238min
