Software bugs in 2021
I cringed when I read posts talking about “functional bugs” and showing Visual Basic 5.0 forms screenshots. It is 2021! We live in a de-normalized big data, IoT/real-time, AI-powered, cloud-hosted microservices / serverless applications world. Today’s bugs are very different […]
Learn how to code, or hire a developer
We are in 2020, and to this day, there is no easy way to connect with an API and export the data to a CSV file. The closest thing you could get is the Supermetrics’ connector from JSON to Google […]
Condé Nast API
Vogue, Wired, Vanity Fair, are just a few brands Condé Nast own. Did you ever want to see all those magazine covers at once? Well, it is possible if you use their API. If you are hunting for ad creative […]
MailChimp Zombie Members
Email is still one of the cheapest ad channels. The cost to reach a subscriber is equals to how many subscribers you have, and the plan you are paying. In MailChimp, you can have up to 2,000 subscribers for free. […]
Runbooks
Fully automating your daily operations is a moving target. No matter how great is your P&E team, they will always be one step behind. Automating your processes come with a price: it will create new manual work to be automated. […]
The cost of “a better way.”
There is always a better way of doing things: a new type of database, a new programming language, a new way to implement a form in React. Even for senior developers -especially for senior developers- once they find a better […]
MailChimp API – Top Members
One of the beauties of having your user base is that you can learn exactly who are the most engaged people. If there are characteristics that influence your top subscribers (like the job they do or where they are located), […]
Faster and cheaper landing pages with Create React App and AWS Amplify
We have a few landing page creation tools in the market. They are either expensive or hard to customize. Thanks to Facebook Open Source and AWS fully managed services, you can use Create React App and AWS Amplify to create, […]
The cost of measuring engineering ROI
A long-running data sync job wasn’t working. It ran at the time it supposed to, and it completed successfully. However, when you checked the reports, the numbers didn’t match. This type of problems will put your dev team in a […]
A Production Runbook for deploying Python scripts in Ubuntu
Google what you don’t know. Try the Stack Overflow most upvoted answer. Type history in the command line, copy the steps that worked. Let’s face it, we as engineers we don’t know all the answers, and most of the time […]