Daniel Ancuta

AWS Amplify is a great tool when you’re building web and mobile apps, and you want to integrate them easily with the backend. In a few simple steps, you can have a working GraphQL endpoint, storage on the backend, authentication, and authorization through Cognito.

We might argue about what is the important aspect of good communication. But what are the few basic principles of communication where, at least, two parties will understand each other? Use of the same Glossary, happens in Real Time and uses Same language.

Many people do not like to write documentation, or if they do, it’s often detached from the source code, leading to it quickly becoming outdated. This is a common problem I’ve noticed in the majority of closed-source codebases I’ve had the chance to work with.

There are multiple strategies to mitigate the number of bugs and problems with the app in production. Some teams focus on unit tests, functional tests, integration tests, manual tests, multiple environments to run those, and build the artifact of the app.

If you work in the AWS ecosystem, sooner or later, you will deal with AWS Cognito. AWS Cognito is meant to help you with customer identity and access management. So you’ve decided to use AWS Cognito for the first time, or you’ve used it already.

If you use GitHub to store your repositories, you may also be utilizing GitHub Actions. I’ve been using it for several years across multiple projects. There have been a few instances where I had to debug a failing workflow.

What is PostgREST? # As the authors themselves say: PostgREST is a standalone web server that transforms your PostgreSQL database directly into a RESTful API. The structural constraints and permissions in the database determine the API endpoints and operations.

When you’re building an API that is used by either a mobile or desktop app, you will eventually encounter a situation where you need to confirm how the app uses your API.

Every, well respected, tech blog has to have “First post”. Place where you can check if plugin for syntax is working as expected, peaking of which: print("Hello World") It does work, at least on my machine.