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Managing Complex Data with JSON in PostgreSQL, Part 3

In the first post of this series, we explained why you absolutely need to use jsonb columns in the PostgreSQL tables right now, and mildly chided you if you aren’t already.

Managing Complex Data with JSON in PostgreSQL, part 2

In Part 1 we explained why you absolutely need JSONb columns in your PostgreSQL tables, and how they simplify the

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Managing Complex Data with JSON in PostgreSQL, Part 1

Are you looking at your stale, flat relational database and thinking: “It’s so rigid and lifeless!” Do you need polymorphism?

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TypeScript to Make JavaScript Development Better and Faster

On a recent project involving AWS Lambda and AWS CDK, I made the decision to write the Lambdas in TypeScript

The Skill-Motivation Matrix

When you are a leader of people, knowing the best approach for delegating assignments to a given person for any

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When Is a User not a User?

Thinking in Terms of Roles rather than Individuals How many times has this happened to you? You’re buying a gift

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Beyond Concern

We’ve all heard about the Spheres of Concern, Influence, and Control concept. But for those that haven’t considered this idea

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Product Owner Nightmares: The Unknown Unknowns

As a product owner, what keeps me up at night is the thought that there are unknown problems lying in

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Discipline is not what you think

When we see a successful person, what traits come to mind? Often they are perceived as natural talents or even

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When Do You Have Enough Requirements?

As a product manager, balancing the priorities of product features with their level of detail is key to shipping the

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Rural Internet for Remote Workers

How do you support your employees who are working remotely from rural areas? Employees telecommuting via fiber Internet access have

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Getting Software Right: The Iterative Process in an Agile Environment

At its heart, software development is a hypothesis testing process. Based on your team’s experience and their understanding of the

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Testing Angular 10 Interceptors with Spectator and Jest

There are many reasons to switch from Karma and Jasmine to Jest when Testing Angular: Jest runs faster than Karma

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Angular Migration and the Strangler Fig

If your organization developed an application using the framework formerly known as Angular, now retroactively rebranded as AngularJS, you probably know that all that hard work and capital you put in now is bolted firmly to a sinking ship.

Designing and Building a Ventilator Flow Sensor from Home, Pt. 3

This is part three of the Designing an Intelligent IoT Ventilator from Home series There’s a Flow Sensor Shortage In

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Hacking your To-Do List for More Productivity and Fulfillment

In the previous article of this two-part series Hacking Your Life with Task Types. I discussed the four quadrants of

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Designing an Intelligent IoT Ventilator from Home, Pt 2

In the previous post I described the motivation for and some background of our ventilator project. In this post I’ll dive a little deeper

Designing an Intelligent IoT Ventilator From Home, Pt. 1

This is part one of a series. In this post we talk about what we’ve done and why, and in

Github Actions: Steps in Containers

Build Pipelines and build agents using CI/CD products are not new. The latest generation of these have all moved to

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Hacking Your Life with Task Types

I want to share an idea that has changed my life by mitigating burnout and feeling more fulfilled day-to-day, month-to-month, and year-to-year. The idea is task typing.