Migrate react native projects to a more sophisticated ecosystem and leverage white label applications — Hi folks! You might be wondering the reasoning of making an article about this, if you can just read the documentation. If you are just trying different tools, or your project is taking the first steps, the documentation might suit your needs. However, chances are that your project is so…

Migrate JavaScript to TypeScript in a smooth way — I really enjoy using Javascript for so many reasons: speed of development, ease of use, versatility, popularity, powerful frameworks, programming features, and so on. But, sometimes, it can be such a nightmare. You may be familiar with several things such as: // what the hell? typeof null === 'object' // yikes '1'…

TL;DR: Create Jenkins infrastructure based on AWS SpotFleet instances — Introduction The main goal of this article is to share my journey on the creation of a Jenkins instance based on AWS technologies, but also share some headaches throughout the whole process. Most of the decisions taken during the process were made taking into account technology and time constraints. Bear in…

This article is part of a series of articles that talk about AWS Amplify, but also how to migrate it to a more flexible and extensible infrastructure. Amplify is an excellent framework for many reasons: (1) ease of use, (2) fast-paced development process, but also (3) speed to market. Throughout…

Some reasons about why is important to have time to add documentation in projects — This article is part of a series of articles that talk about different stages of a development workflow. For the old Ricardo, documentation was not something that relevant. A few lines to explain what the project does and how to run it was pretty enough. I was wrong, totally wrong……

Be aware of the lurking demon — Hey guys, the halloween is right in the corner and the devil is lurking around, waiting to ambush. Today I will tell you a story about a devil called any, a monster that terrifies all developers on their daily basis, but also take advantage of the innocent minds that try…

How important are toggles on software projects — Regardless if you are working on outsourcing projects or creating products that will be used by thousands of end users, I believe that feature toggles should be added since day one. In this article, I got inspired on the five Ws [1] to encourage everyone to embrace this technique. The…

Boost your productivity with top-notch tools — Regardless if you are passionate about backend or frontend, chances are that you are using javascript. In this article I will share a few tools that I find relevant and adopt on my daily basis. I will also enumerate a few ones that are on hold, on trial or are…

What to take into consideration when selecting the right framework to develop frontend applications — Selecting a frontend framework nowadays is even harder than it was 5 years ago. Software is always evolving, new frameworks arise and try to solve older framework problems, you name it. Just to name a few, React, Angular, Vue.js, Svelte are just valid examples of frameworks to use [1]. This…