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
Building a Brand New Application? Looking for a way to reduce your ramp up time?
When you get started on a new project, it is natural to feel a tad overwhelmed. After all, it may be a new team, new technology stack, new processes, and new business problems - so it is alright to fe...
24 Nov 202312min
Development Efficiency - Are you bouncing your servers too often?
If it takes you 5 minutes to test 10 lines of code, there is a problem. If it takes you 3 minutes to bounce your (local) server, and that's the only way for you to test your code, there is another pro...
24 Nov 202312min
Code Quality - How can you assess the quality of a codebase before reviewing a single line of code?
Whether you are joining a new team, or a new developer is joining your team, the expectation is quite the same - "a good quality codebase that will help us understand the product without having to bug...
24 Nov 20239min
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
