Drew Colthorp on Atomic Spin

Coordinated Cache Refill with Redis and Node

A case study of how to coordinate cache invalidation across a cluster of workers using Node.js, Redis, and TypeScript. See how to gracefully allow just one worker to compute a new

TypeScript

Flavoring: Flexible Nominal Typing for TypeScript

TypeScript flavoring allows unbranded values to be implicitly converted into the branded type, but doesn’t allow implicit conversion between branded types.

TypeScript

A Simple, Functional Module Pattern for TypeScript

A pattern for defining abstractions in TypeScript in a functional way that works well with Webpack and Visual Studio Code.

TypeScript

Small, Simple, Functional Lenses for TypeScript

We put together a tiny little lens library for TypeScript, focused on: small size, static type safety, composition over DSLs, and zero dependencies.

TypeScript

A New Redux Action Pattern for TypeScript 2.4+

A minimal-boilerplate, strongly typed action pattern for defining Redux actions and reducers in TypeScript 2.4 and newer.

Web Apps

Atomic SPA Starter Kit: TypeScript, GraphQL, ReactJS

Our new SPA framework with TypeScript, GraphQL, and ReactJS. It's a starter kit for building single-page web apps backed by an API.

TypeScript

Modular, Type-safe Metadata with TypeScript

You can do some pretty powerful things with the tools TypeScript provides. Reflect on your TypeScript types to drive runtime behavior in a type-safe way.

Mobile Apps

Explorations in Adapting Redux to C#

The Redux model to managing application state is great. See some implementation strategies to adapt the model to make great use of C# and .NET.

TypeScript

Immutable.js Records in TypeScript

Use these key steps to create strongly typed immutable records in TypeScript with Immutable.js.

TypeScript

Typed Redux Reducers in TypeScript 2.0

The new TypeScript version, 2.0, has some new additions that are great for Redux development in React: type narrowing for tagged unions.

Culture

“Owning It” Every Step of the Way

There's no one-size-fits-all process for creating software. Each project must execute according to the needs of the customer and their business realities.

Planning Your Project

Maximizing Value Starts with Truly Understanding the Client’s Needs

All the technical skill in the world won't combat solving the wrong problem or being wasteful with time.

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