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 feel a little restless. But there is a way to feel at home by the end of Day 1. #snowpal aws.snowpal.com learn.snowpal.com
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 problem. #snowpal aws.snowpal.com learn.snowpal.com
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 the rest of the team". How can we work towards building such a codebase? #snowpal aws.snowpal.com learn.snowpal.com
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 require fundamental changes to your semantics and data structure. Given that, backwards compatibility can get rather challenging but there are steps you can take to mitigate potential issues. #snowpal aws.snowpal.com learn.snowpal.com
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 resilient to changes to the API Spec. #snowpal aws.snowpal.com learn.snowpal.com
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 resilient to changes to the API Spec. #snowpal aws.snowpal.com learn.snowpal.com
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 want to try out a few other things before resorting to denormalization. #snowpal aws.snowpal.com learn.snowpal.com
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. #snowpal aws.snowpal.com learn.snowpal.com
24 Nov 20239min
