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One of the powerful design patterns that can be employed within a GraphQL schema is the …
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tRPC has a fairly comprehensive set of built-in error codes, but because they’re baked in …
At Crimson one of the first projects undertaken by my AI team was to produce high-quality …
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Most people know that it’s possible to use multi-stage Docker builds to minimize final …
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At my last job we sold a quoting SaaS to tradespeople, and naturally a big component of …
At my job I’ve been working on identifying performance and stability issues with our main …
We had an issue the other month with our internal summarization microservice, which …
Imagine that you’re building out a web page that allows students to view a list of their …
The upper limit for GPT-4 rate limits have significantly improved over the past few months…
Global object identification is a GraphQL specification which describes the Node interface…
Node
Last year Retool authored a post describing how they upgraded a 4 TB PostgreSQL database …
I’m a huge fan of type-prefixed IDs because they make development so much more pleasant. …
Partitioning your cloud infrastructure across different AWS accounts is a best-practice …
I run into JSON file merge conflicts almost every day, and a shocking percentage of the …
AWS CloudTrail is an indispensable tool for improving your security posture, but it’s …
On the surface AWS Secrets Manager is a straightforward service. You create secrets, store…
Using infrastructure-as-code solutions such as Terraform is a great way to keep your cloud…
At Crimson we use Elastic Beanstalk to run our Docker images, and we leverage an old …
AWS’ proprietary ARM-based Graviton chips have existed for many years now, but there are …
The “Twelve-Factor App” methodology dictates that all app configuration is stored in …
Everyone knows what a memory leak is, and the prevalence of this bug is a testament to the…
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I previously wrote about my preferred ID format consisting of a small type prefix and a …
When you deploy a new frontend bundle it’s a good idea to purge your CDN to ensure you won…
As I’ve mentioned previously, I took a few shortcuts when I first built this website. …
I’ve been in situations where I need to smoothly animate the height of an HTML element …
This is an old post and my views have changed. I don’t think you should use enums in …
For a while now I’ve been running a girls’ competitive programming group, and one of the …
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Every piece of software takes user input in some capacity. Right now I’m typing this …
macOS has a bunch of great Emacs-derived keyboard shortcuts for editing text—⌃a, for …
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In order to help debug some email deliverability issues at work, we wanted to sign up for …