ETA: What does your team base their estimates on? And how accurate are they?
It is one thing to provide an ETA for any given task, but it is completely another to provide a meaningful, reasonably accurate, and accountable ETA. Ask for ETAs but take them with a grain of salt. F...
24 Nov 20238min
Waterfall vs Scrum vs Kanban vs Agile
If you want to learn the theoretical differences between these terms, you are better off checking it out on the web. Just do a search and you'll find a lot of hits. But, if you want to get a sense of ...
24 Nov 202313min
Adding Scoped Bookmarks on Snowpal Pitch using the Relations Feature!
Pitch has always supported a Linking feature that allows you to structure your content any which way you want (aka, create content once, use it any number of times). Relations is a new feature that is...
24 Nov 20235min
Building a Mobile App - Part I (Starting to build a native mobile app, and wondering which way to go?)
If you are starting to build a native mobile app and are a little unsure of how to proceed, this podcast (the first in this series) might offer you some guidance. #snowpal aws.snowpal.com learn.s...
24 Nov 20233min
Building a Mobile App - Part II (React Native, Flutter, and some others)
Even if you've decided to build a cross-platform native mobile app, there are still a few decisions to be made. In this podcast, I discuss a tiny bit about React Native and Flutter (2 very popular fra...
24 Nov 202311min
Aggregations in Mongo - Much faster and the best (and maybe only?) alternative in many cases
If you are using MongoDB and an Object Data Modeling library like Mongoose, or Mongoid, you may find yourselves in situations where your queries are taking a little too long. Come Aggregations to your...
24 Nov 202310min
Make your Git commits frequent so you run into fewer merge conflicts
Say, your team is working on a number of features, and there is a steady stream of Pull Requests at any given time. The likelihood and complexity of merge conflicts depends both on the size of your te...
24 Nov 20238min
Heroku Cloud Application Platform - why it will help your TTM (Time to Market)
If you want complete control over your servers, you would choose (something like) Amazon EC2 and start with creating a new Machine Image. But, what if your interest primarily lied in building your app...
24 Nov 20238min
