Elevate Your Code

A Philosophy of Software Design, by John Ousterhout, is a great read for anyone who wants to understand what actually causes systems to be complex and in turn, how to

Asynchronous calls allow client applications to react to changes on the server without impacting the users experience and without the need of the user to specifically interact with that interface

I have been spending a large portion of my time reviewing my design for an application I’m working on… and part of it involves deciding whether what I wrote made sense.

I watched a fantastic talk from J.B. Rainsberger called “Integrated Tests are a Scam.” It was an insightful discussion about the types of tests that we write during software development

Software engineering can be incredibly complex. There are a variety of tools, software patterns, architectural decisions, and process flows. This can be daunting for a new engineer who wants to

Unit testing is a great idea. It provides for code coverage, is a resource for documentation, and, paired with TDD, it provides a vehicle for good design. There are a

Yup is a schema validation library. One would use it to add property validations that execute prior to form submission. It is also pretty easy to use, it’s just difficult

Abstraction is about expressing ideas and simplifying complexity. However, it is quite often hard to understand what line not to cross. When does abstraction become too much and more binding

Dependency injection is a form of inversion of control. This means that a component’s dependencies are not part of a component’s internals, they are defined at the public-facing seam, or