All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

We live in a world where massive volumes of data are generated from websites, connected devices and mobile apps. In such a data intensive environment, making key business decisions such as running marketing and sales campaigns, logistic planning, financial analysis and ad targeting require deriving insights from these data. However, the data infrastructure to collect, store and process data is geared toward developers (e.g., Amazon Redshift, DynamoDB, Amazon EMR) whereas insights need to be deri

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Incentives are fascinating. Dangle the right carrot in front of people and you can subtly influence their behavior. But it has to be the right carrot. It has to matter to the people you’re trying to influence. Just as importantly, it has to influence the correct changes. A few years ago there was a story of incentives gone wrong that was making the rounds.

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The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 26, 2015

So you’re at a time in your life where you want to manage your own web server. Maybe you are currently on a shared hosting plan and it isn’t giving you the performance you need because your web application is getting crazy amounts of traffic or maybe you just want to play the role of DevOps. My blog (the one you’re on now) is on a virtual private server (VPS).

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 11, 2015

SpeedCurve now provides a visual diff of every deploy. A full resolution PNG is captured for each URL and each pixel is diffed with the previous deploy allowing you to easily spot any visual changes you may or may not have expected. The key to practising safe continuous deployment is to have a robust set of tools that give you immediate feedback on how your code has changed between deploys and its effect on the user experience.

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Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 26, 2015

You may think the answers are obvious, and the most obvious questions include: How many people are hitting our website? How many site visitors are converting? Is the blog drawing traffic? Which pages are receiving the most traffic? These are not necessarily the most important metrics about your website, and all of these questions can… The post 5 Things Your Boss Needs to Know About Your Website appeared first on Dotcom-Monitor Web Performance Blog.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2015

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. -- Warren Buffett For a business to have "potential", it needs opportunity, money, willingness, talent, and aptitude. Yes, a business without all of these things still has potential: it might be poorly funded but have knowledge-acquisitive people and a clear opportunity; it may have weak capability but good cash flow.

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Wayfair Tech

OCTOBER 27, 2015

There's a great interview with our own Matt DeGennaro by Paul Krill of Infoworld that came out a few days ago. The topic is Tungsten.js, our awesome framework that 'lights up' the DOM with fast, virtual-DOM-based updates, React-style, and can be integrated with Backbone.js and pretty much whatever other framework. Read more.

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The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The release of iOS 9 has caused a mess of problems in the Apache Cordova, Ionic Framework , and PhoneGap communities. Problems spanning from styling issues, to permission issues, and even stricter security requirements that Apache Cordova wasn’t ready to handle. Here I’m going to discuss App Transport Security (ATS) an issue that is rapidly appearing amongst app developers.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Performance budgets are an important tool for ensuring your site is delivering a great user experience. Steve first experienced performance budgets while Head Performance Engineer at Google. The practice of using budgets to track performance took off with Tim Kadlec's blog post Setting a Performance Budget. The idea is to identify your performance goals and track the metrics that help you achieve your goals.

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The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 30, 2015

With Angular development happening in full force, I figured it was time to take a break from Angular 1 and start thinking about what it takes to make the switch over to Angular. Like with most JavaScript powered applications you will have a single page composed of partial routes and views. I previously wrote about how to navigate with the AngularJS UI-Router , but in Angular things are pretty different.

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Wayfair Tech

OCTOBER 26, 2015

For the past couple years, Wayfair's front-end stack has relied heavily on Mustache templates. They've let our growing front-end team focus on the front-end. They allow us to share more code between server and client as we push towards a Tungsten-powered future. Anyone who's seen a Mustache template knows that. Read more.

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The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 23, 2015

So I answer enough forum, Stack Overflow, and blog questions to feel it is now necessary to teach people how to properly seek programming help using these outlets or similar. I feel it is necessary because so much time can be saved for everyone when this is done correctly. As someone who provides free resources and programming help, I often get a ton of questions that annoy me.

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The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Previously I wrote about how to create an AngularJS application with PouchDB and Couchbase. The way I demonstrated is of course one way to accomplish the job of using Couchbase in a web application. This time around we’re going to take a look at creating a full stack application using the Couchbase , Express.js , AngularJS , and Node.js (CEAN) stack.

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The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 12, 2015

In case you’re in the area and are interested, I will be in Atlanta, Georgia on October 16 and October 17 speaking at ConnectJS. This is a conference focusing on JavaScript development and mobile application development. I will be giving two presentations titled Quick and Easy Development with Node.js and Couchbase Server and Developing For Offline Mobile Experiences.

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The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Last year when Android 5.0 Lollipop came out I didn’t want to wait for an over-the-air (OTA) update so I flashed my Nexus device manually. I wrote about this experience in a previous post. This time I upgraded my Android operating system to the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow release. We’re going to see how to upgrade a Google Nexus device to use a vanilla version of the Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system.

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The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I’ve written a few tutorials regarding Node.js and the Express.js framework, but I never took a step back and explained how to make a super simple RESTful API for processing HTTP requests from a front-facing interface. With this API created, you can use it with just about any application that can submit HTTP requests. It is a great way to test a mobile application or one that uses JavaScript frameworks like jQuery, ReactJS, or AngularJS.

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The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 2, 2015

So after a lot of thinking about it I finally dedicated some time to creating my first ever Ionic Framework course! The title of the course is Ionic Framework 101: A Quickstart to Building Mobile Apps and it can be found on the learning service Udemy. A little background on what I hoped to accomplish in this quickstart course. The post Ionic Framework 101: A Quickstart to Building Mobile Apps appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.

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The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Previously I wrote about using the device camera in your React Native mobile application. However, what if we wanted to go a step further and start scanning barcodes? This is not a problem because the react-native-camera component we used in the last tutorial also supports barcode scanning. The post Implement A Barcode Scanner Using React Native appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.

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