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Development Practices • Apr 12, 2021

Ensure a Successful Continuous Improvement Engagement With These Activities

Regularly plan to do these activities to keep your project healthy between active phases of development in a continuous improvement engagement.

Personal Optimization • Apr 11, 2021

Feeling Bored? These Strategies Can Keep You on Track

Since I’ve started becoming more mindful about my boredom, I’ve noticed that the end-of-day burnout I experience after a long day of work is less intense.

Culture • Apr 10, 2021

Maintaining Connection With Co-workers Through A Pandemic

As we look forward to working together in our offices again, we at Atomic have been taking additional measures to stay connected in this virtual space.

Personal Optimization • Apr 09, 2021

4 Tips for Getting Started Writing Code

Faking data, using a spike, or drawing a picture are great ways to begin writing code when you're not sure where to start on a project.

Evolving the Industry • Apr 08, 2021

Not Your Keys, Not Your Crypto

It's important to learn how to properly store your cryptocurrencies. Here is a helpful guide to secure your assets for years to come.

DevOps & System Admin. • Apr 07, 2021

Create an AWS CloudWatch Metric Filter and Alarm in Terraform

In this tutorial, we'll walk through the basics of AWS CloudWatch metric filters and alarms with examples of how to create both in Terraform.

Project & Team Management • Apr 06, 2021

3 Clients that Should Spend More Time in the Research, Design, and Planning Phase

The ideal research, design, and planning phase gives the team important information before the client commits a large amount of capital.

React Native • Apr 05, 2021

Using React Native Keychain in Your Mobile Application

React Native Keychain makes it easy for your users to authenticate with biometric data and is a breeze to install in your application.

Personal Optimization • Apr 04, 2021

Get Organized in Google Chrome for a Better Browsing Experience

Taking advantage of small tweaks in Google Chrome improves my web browsing experience, day-to-day and long term as I move from project to project.

Exploratory Testing • Apr 03, 2021

What I Learned About Myself & My Software Testing Habits from Presenting to New Hires

During Q&A time, I got some good questions about how and why I test that I continued to think about afterward. Here are my answers.

Development • Apr 02, 2021

Versioned Records – Part 3: Prevent Overlapping Ranges with Database-Level Exclusion Constraints

How to Use a PostgreSQL exclusion constraint to prevent overlaps in the date ranges of versioned records.

Development • Apr 01, 2021

Versioned Records – Part 2: Looking up a Record with Variable Attributes

When we look up a record, we usually want both the versioned attributes and the stable attributes — without having to worry about which are which.