This seemingly obvious advice can save you years of time! — It’s a hard thing to generalize what exactly makes someone successful, but, over many years, I’ve landed on a framework that works well for me. I’ll get to that in a moment, but first, let me share a quick story that illuminates the point I am trying to make. In…

Learn how to automate away as much maintenance as possible using Renovate, Travis CI, and CodeCov — Last year I wrote a five part series of articles that built a React boilerplate using Parcel. It demonstrated how to use streaming server side rendering, automatically enforce code quality, achieve 100% code coverage, explored using Docker for development, and covered multi-stage Dockerfiles for production.

Hey everyone! Thanks for all the support I’ve gotten on Medium over the years! 1600 followers, 100’s of thousands of views, literally over a year of time spent reading my articles about DevOps, Microservices, Full Stack Engineering, and Entrepreneurship. And this year, voted HackerNoon’s Contributing Writer of the Year!? Amazing. …

How to know which feedback to listen to for your startup. If you’re starting a new business, launching a new idea, or doing anything at all really, you’re going to be getting a lot of feedback. People are going to tell you if they love it. And you’re inevitably going to hear some verison of: “That’s not a good idea.” The…

Is success just a small decision away? — The topic of this story is pretty personal for me. It’s about breaking through the fears that are holding you back. To do that, I want to start you off with a brief story about the fears that have held me back. When I was younger — in middle school…

Learn the fundamental question every business owner needs to answer before they can succeed — A few weeks ago, I was in an advisory meeting with the Co-Founders of a private jet company. These guys are great salesmen. Super cool dudes — one of them is literally married to a supermodel and is friends with all sorts of eccentric millionaires. However, they were having trouble…

Learn These Guiding Principles To Help You Level-Up Your DevOps Chops — A few days ago I was peeling an egg, like an idiot. My girlfriend, Angelly, was like — “why are you peeling the egg like that?” She picked up another hard-boiled egg, smacked it on the cutting board, and then rolled it while pressing down firmly. …

Production Ready Dockerfiles for Node.js using SSR or Nginx — In the last article of this series, we finished adding unit tests to our project to reach 100% code coverage. With tests in place, the next piece is getting our project ready for deployment. The last thing we need in place to get our application ready for production deployment is…

There’s a lot of advice around the internet right now saying that 100% coverage is not a worthwhile goal. I strongly disagree. Usually, code being hard to test is a sign that is needs to be refactored. I get it. A few years ago, I sucked at testing. I thought…