My Blog

My team had to perform a layoff recently. There were several lessons and some interesting insights I gained from the situation. In this post, I'll discuss some of the lessons I learned in handling this layoff and how my organization's leaders did their best to treat everyone humanely.

If you want to deploy your Next.js app to Amplify, you might need to utilize this custom build pattern to get environment variables to work in your API routes. This is a quick explanation on how to achieve a working API.

GraphQL can be an amazing tool for teams to implement the APIs powering their different applications that rely on the same source of data. However, the mental model required for it may not be as straightforward as traditional solutions. Let's explore some of these challenges.

Let's explore Astro v2's new content collections API and how it really helps improve your developer experience and content management.

In this post, I explore how I make technology decisions based on use cases and what technologies I think are best suited towards solving the problem.

We’re excited to present you with starter.dev, a set of zero-configuration project kits built with your favorite tools. Each kit is configured with the following so you can focus on building features instead of spending time on configuration. Read here to learn more.

In this article, I discuss deploying applications built with the Serverless Framework and Nx utilizing GitHub Actions and some of the reasons you may want to consider using this strategy.

This is a write up on my thoughts relating to how teams should best utilize git for their needs to have an effective collaborative work environment.

Writing and testing functions for serverless locally can be a breeze especially with the Serverless Framework and serverless-offline plugin. However, once you get to real infrastructure, sometimes debugging your functions can be really challenging. Let's talk about some debugging tips and tricks.

I'm excited to announce a new project starter kit template that I've been developing for a while. Let me tour you through the repository and the decisions that have been made.

Serverless 3 just released and it has some pretty amazing quality of life improvements. Let's check out these new features and how we should leverage them today.

My team at This Dot Labs released a new project we're calling starter.dev GitHub showcases in collaboration with the Angular team. Learn more about what we did and how we did it.