Andy Peterson on Atomic Spin

4 Ways Teams Can Encourage Knowledge Transfer

Removing knowledge silos allows for long-term project success. Here are a few practices my team has put in place to support continuous knowledge transfer.

Project & Team Management

Use Well-Defined User Stories to Create Predictable Value

Well-defined work relays information to developers working on the user story and supports the entire team in bringing value through the project.

Development Practices

Define Success with Test-Driven Development

Using test-driven development as a mechanism for defining success for software, in turn, also defines success for the domain you are working in.

Development Practices

Why I Still Recommend Learning Elm

Elm has something for everyone to learn. Its principles are nearly universally applicable to other development environments.

Platforms & Languages

Running NodeJS Scripts in AWS Fargate

Sometimes NodeJS scripts take minutes or hours, to run. I’ve been using AWS Fargate to run these longer running NodeJS scripts in the cloud.

Development Practices

Embracing Nullability for GraphQL APIs

Build an API that expresses uncertainty with nullable fields, and your frontend implementation can use those APIs to handle less-than-ideal data.

DevOps & System Admin.

Using WebSockets in AWS to Stream DynamoDB Updates

Building WebSocket APIs to stream events in AWS is straightforward. I was able to utilize WebSockets to stream DynamoDB changes on one of my projects.

DevOps & System Admin.

Migrating Data Structures in DynamoDB

The key patterns my team uses to migrate data structures in DynamoDB, plus a demonstration of some basic usages in a NodeJS environment.

Project & Team Management

Energize Your Team at Sprint Demos – Focus on Results, Not Actions

It is important to celebrate the small wins and accomplishments of each Sprint. They keep your team members excited and focused on the goal of the project.

Development Practices

6 Concerns that Documentation Should Address

Documentation is a tool for setting up context. It should help future developers answer who, what, when, where, why, and how.

Developer Tools

Three Git Configurations that Should Be the Default

Here are a few Git configurations that I think should be the default for everyone, plus a quick overview of how each has helped my workflow.

Development Practices

Why I Don’t Use Classes

Instead of classes, I prefer modules that expose groups of functions that accept state and other dependencies.

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