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Easy Caching with Nginx

08/25/2019

Web response time has a clear impact on if potential prospects will stay on your site and become engaged with your product. What happens when a website is slower than desired? They leave before you can woo them. Obviously, website reliability is very key as well. When we make an api request, or…

Functional Programming with React - A Loading Component Example

07/30/2017

Functional programming (FP) has been all the rave in recent years, especially in the JavaScript world. When you combine FP with React you get all sorts of magic. It’s also not hard to find FP while traversing (no pun) the React ecosystem. You’ll find array.map used very commonly to iterate over…

Deploy a Website and API with Serverless

07/19/2017

You’ve written an awesome REST API or GraphQL endpoint and a stellar web UI and you want to deploy it. Then you shudder. There are so many options and you don’t know which to choose. If you are looking for a non managed solution maybe you deploy to Next.js, Heroku or AWS Elastic Beanstalk. If you…

How to Get Started with AWS Lambda

06/17/2017

Imagine a world where you can host an API that is allowed 1 million free API calls per month, automatic scaling and zero maintenance. It is all possible with Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Lambda functions. However getting started can be a bit confusing. There are many steps you need to follow and…