Engineering Practices

Jeff Wan provides an in-depth analysis of Amazon Web Services including AWS Lambda, AWS AWS Redshift, and AWS Kinesis.

In this installment of Jeff Wan's 4 part AWS series, we take a look at AWS Kinesis. Learn more about AWS Kinesis and message brokers.

AWS SQS enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, & serverless applications. Learn more about AWS SQS and message queues.

Interactive rebasing can be used for changing commits in many ways such as editing, deleting, and squashing.

I tried to learn Vim, believe me, many times. As many times as I tried, I failed. That is until two weeks ago, when something inside my ancient and slightly decrepit mind clicked, and I started to see the way. I began to, as some might say, Vim.

Learn more about our Stride's recommended tool for pair programming. We tested CoScreen and Tuple to see which we preferred for pairing.

In marketing materials from the world of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) , one often comes across the idea there is a progression from continuous integration* (good) to continuous delivery** (better) to continuous deployment*** (best). The progression typically goes as follows:

If you're thinking of coming to React from Angular, here's a few of our thoughts and observations to help guide your decision.

Learn about why RedHat and IBM both recommend the declarative approach, also known as “declarative infrastructure”, over the imperative approach.

Variables in Javascript can be a pain, but with Destructuring in ES6, extracting variables is a breeze! Learn now.

Have questions about Test Driven Development, or want to learn more? See what expert developers are saying about TDD's uses, value, and downfalls.

Learn about the five steps to a good pair programming experience!

Learn about four of the biggest challenges teams face with CI/CD, and how you can get your team back on the right path.

Learn about common misconceptions regarding CICD processes and how you can properly implement them to keep moving your team forward.

Learn why automation is critical to streamlining your team's CI/CD pipeline.

Are you wondering where to write the first test to start driving out user value? Learn how outside-in and inside-out TDD can help protect your domain.

Learn why identifying process bottlenecks can help you avoid disruption to your CI/CD pipeline, and what you can do to improve it.

Test automation or TDD leads to fewer regressions and more stability resulting in your team's ability to move faster when developing products. Learn more.

Michael Wytock talks to us about infrastructure changes and what you can do to modularize and version your code during devopsdays NYC 2020.

A quick introduction to AWS secrets manager. Learn about when to use aws secrets manager and the costs associated with using a secrets manager.

DevOps and software delivery performance services can help technology organizations increase their throughput without sacrificing quality. Learn more.

Javascript is an infamously difficult language to predict. Understanding one of the most fundamental parts of Javascript, the Execution Context, will give you a better understanding of why Javascript behaves how it does.

I recently started learning Elixir for an upcoming project. As part of my usual prep work, I have studied the language documentation, walked through...

Trying to decide between outside-in and inside-out TDD? Take a look at these popular strategies for writing tests, their tradeoffs, and when to use each.

Ever wondered what the differences are between Ruby and Elixir? In this post, we look at #each in both code languages to show how they're different.

Ruby vs. Python: Multiline Comments and Strings

Solr is a powerful search platform built on Lucene. Similar in nature to the more popular ElasticSearch, Solr focuses on text search whereas ElasticSearch provides more analytics capabilities.

This month's tech talk from NYC Software Consultancy Stride discusses how TDD affects design with Agile engineering expert James Shore.

Tail Call Optimization can be very useful in complex problems developers may run into daily. See examples of this in action, and how it can help you.

Having production code with good test coverage is very beneficial to a development team.

When building a test suite, over-testing isn’t the best approach. This guide is targeted at production applications with problematic test suites.

Code review has a huge impact on code quality. However, it’s important to be aware of these hidden costs associated with this process.

Dev tools are well documented and there are always new features. Use Dev tools to pause code execution, inspect variables, and perform Mobile First web development.

The testing fractal is a thought experiment, conceptualized by Elle Mundy, that explores different ways to think about test driven development.

At Stride, we call our employees developer consultants. See what they do, and how they help teams be their best.

What is a GenServer in Elixir and how can I write one with test-driven development? Follow this tutorial to learn how to use TDD to create a GenServer.

DevOps is a popular term and is growing in popularity. Read more to learn about the DevOps movement, where it started, and what it actually means.

Not sure what Kubernetes or K8s is? Take a closer look at this open-source system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management.

These guidelines won’t just help you with your application to Stride, they’ll help you with code tests from any company.

Advice to all junior programmers from a senior programmer: build crappy code in order to build great code.

TDD on front-end code has proliferated, thanks to JavaScript frameworks. Here are a few tips to make testing faster, easier, and more comprehensive.

As web developers, putting our users first means taking their privacy seriously. Let’s take a look at a few examples of how we can improve our practice.

Scope, time, and cost are the three levers you can pull, and each of those has an impact on quality and customer satisfaction. Highly simplified but you get the point.

Learn the three key steps that Rob O'Brien, Partner at Stride Consulting, uses to approach integrating technology post merger and acquisition.

Learn about how your website contributes to climate change and how you can make a difference.

We just hit 100 PRs at Qwell (a Stride Client)! This is a big milestone and the result of months of effort from the team. Even though we’re no where near being done we wanted to take the time to reflect on how things have gone so far.