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This Dot Migrating a classic Express.js to Serverless Framework

Jan 17, 2022

Migrating a classic Express.js to Serverless Framework

My team recently needed an easy deployment of a small Express.js server and we discovered that Serverless Framework helped us do this at a very low cost.
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This Dot Building a Multi Platform Community Engagement Tool

Apr 8, 2021

Building a Multi Platform Community Engagement Tool

In a YouTube show, my team discussed how to build a multi-platform community engagement tool to accompany a theoretical e-commerce buisness, A Latte Java. In this post, I summarize the discussion from "Build IT Better Architecture: Roundtable with This Dot Labs Developers".
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This Dot Migrating from REST to GraphQL

Feb 15, 2021

Migrating from REST to GraphQL

With the rise of GraphQL, I wanted to share a brief overview of the problems with traditional API solutions, the benefits of migrating to GraphQL, and strategies for migrating to a GraphQL solution.
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serverless node webpack

Nov 27, 2020

Resolving Serverless Webpack Issues

Through debugging a critical issue for my team, I learned quite a few important lessons for those considering the Serverless Framework relating to project and file structure and other key optimizations that your team may want to consider. I'll discuss some techniques and tools I used and share some of the lessons I learned along the way.
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Naming things is hard

Nov 22, 2020

How I managed to encounter and recover from Computer Science’s Two Hardest Problems

Back in August 2019, I managed to encounter both of computer science’s hardest problems: (1) cache invalidation and (2) naming things, while trying to do something relatively simple. I wanted to share my experience and the lessons I learned from that situation.
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