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Articles tagged Back-end Engineering

• Some Thoughts after a Major Ruby on Rails Upgrade

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering, #Tooling

  by Noah Over on September 18, 2024

  
• Setting up a Python Project Using asdf, PDM, and Ruff

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering, #Tooling

  by Danny Brown on September 17, 2024

  
• Craft 5: What It Means For Super Table Page Builders

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering, #Content Management, #Performance

  by Max Myers on August 14, 2024

  
• 10 Things I Learned in My 10 Weeks at Viget

  Article Categories: #Code, #News & Culture, #Back-end Engineering, #Internships and Apprenticeships

  by Paul McKissock on August 7, 2024

  
• What is a Headless CMS and When Should I Use One?

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering, #Content Management

  by Max Myers on July 17, 2024

  
• Self-Host Your Identity Provider with authentik

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering, #Security

  by Nick Telsan on May 31, 2024

  
• Self Hosting Text-to-Speech AI for Research and Fun

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering, #Research

  by Nevin Morgan on May 10, 2024

  
• CraftCMS and PHP Tuning for Heavy Traffic

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering, #Performance

  by Nevin Morgan on April 30, 2024

  
• StackStash: Taking Bookish Musings to the Next Level

  Article Categories: #News & Culture, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering

  by Laura Sweltz on April 9, 2024

  
• Maintenance Matters: Monitoring

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering, #Performance, #Tooling

  by Nevin Morgan on February 22, 2024

  
• Maintenance Matters: Good Tests

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering

  by David Eisinger on November 29, 2023

  
• Demystifying WCAG 2.2

  Article Categories: #Strategy, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering, #User Experience, #Accessibility

  by Nathan Schmidt on October 6, 2023

  
• Avoiding JS Import Hell

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by Solomon Hawk on September 26, 2023

  
• Using Pre-Commit with StandardRB

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by Noah Over on September 18, 2023

  
• Creating a Mac-Inspired Dev Environment on Windows with WSL, Hyper, Zsh

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering, #Tooling

  by Eric Fuhrmann on September 14, 2023

  
• Dealing with Database Defaults in Django

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by Noah Over on August 29, 2023

  
• WordPress Theme Development with ACF Custom Blocks: Part 1

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering, #Content Management

  by Brian DiChiara on August 17, 2023

  
• Front-to-Back: 4 Takeaways from an Application Developer Intern

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering, #Internships and Apprenticeships

  by Anya Parekh on August 4, 2023

  
• Thriving as a Developer with ADHD

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering, #Diversity and Inclusion

  by Nick Telsan on July 5, 2023

  
• Why UTM Parameters Do Not Work on WP Engine

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering

  by Nathan Schmidt on June 21, 2023

  
• Overcoming Anxiety in Code Reviews

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering, #Diversity and Inclusion

  by Melissa Piper on June 16, 2023

  
• Maintenance Matters: Code Reviews

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering

  by Danny Brown on June 15, 2023

  
• What Even Are React Server Components

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering, #Performance

  by Nick Telsan on April 28, 2023

  
• 10 SQL Tricks That I Like

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering, #Data & Analytics, #Performance

  by Noah Over on March 2, 2023

  
• Maintenance Matters: Building Helpful Logs

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by Annie Kiley on February 27, 2023

  
• Evaluating Open Source Third-Party Dependencies

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering

  by Solomon Hawk on February 10, 2023

  
• What’s on the Horizon for UI and JS?

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering

  by Solomon Hawk on January 10, 2023

  
• Maintenance Matters: Default Formatting

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering

  by Solomon Hawk on November 9, 2022

  
• The New Git Option For Rebasing Multiple Branches At Once

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering

  by Henry Bley-Vroman on October 27, 2022

  
• The Fall 2022 Viget Development Offsite Art Show

  Article Categories: #Code, #News & Culture, #Back-end Engineering

  by Annie Kiley on October 26, 2022

  
• Maintenance Matters: Documentation

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering

  by Solomon Hawk on October 18, 2022

  
• TypeScript Best Practices at Viget

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering

  by Solomon Hawk on October 5, 2022

  
• How to Pronounce "Varchar"

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by Noah Over on October 4, 2022

  
• My Top Six Git Tricks

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering, #Tooling

  by Annie Kiley on September 28, 2022

  
• Using GitHub Pages to Build, Deploy, and Host Next.js

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering, #Tooling

  by Henry Bley-Vroman on September 15, 2022

  
• Maintenance Matters: Continuous Integration

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering

  by David Eisinger on August 26, 2022

  
• Node Package Managers in 2022

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering, #Tooling

  by Nick Telsan on August 25, 2022

  
• The Art of Failing Gracefully

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering, #User Experience, #Accessibility, #Security, #Performance, #UI Design

  by Solomon Hawk on August 16, 2022

  
• Bootstrap or Tailwind, Which is Better?

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering, #Tooling

  by Nathan Schmidt on July 28, 2022

  
• Maintenance Matters

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering

  by Annie Kiley on July 26, 2022

  
• Using Google Cloud Storage in your Django Project

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by Danny Brown on June 30, 2022

  
• Using Postman for Mock API-Driven Development

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering

  by Solomon Hawk on June 6, 2022

  
• Circles: The Life of a Development Manager

  Article Categories: #Process, #Back-end Engineering, #Project Management

  by Eli Fatsi on May 26, 2022

  
• Pandoc: A Tool I Use and Like

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering, #Content Management, #Tooling

  by David Eisinger on May 25, 2022

  
• Splitting PDFs with HexaPDF

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by Eli Fatsi on February 10, 2022

  
• Extract Embedded Text from PDFs with Poppler in Ruby

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by David Eisinger on February 10, 2022

  
• Automating build/deploy CI/CD with GitHub Actions

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering, #Project Management, #Launches

  by Henry Bley-Vroman on January 26, 2022

  
• Let's Extend that Dang ElasticSearch Plugin

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering, #Tooling

  by Noah Over on December 13, 2021

  
• 3 Elixir Language Features I Love

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by Solomon Hawk on November 30, 2021

  
• Dev Book Club

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering

  by Annie Kiley on November 12, 2021

  
• Custom Sorting in Administrate

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by Eli Fatsi on October 22, 2021

  
• Should I Use PostgreSQL Triggers in my Rails App?

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by Noah Over on September 1, 2021

  
• Basic GraphQL API with Node, Prisma and Apollo

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by Nick Telsan on August 19, 2021

  
• Fancy Form Modals with Rails + Turbo

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering

  by Eli Fatsi on August 3, 2021

  
• Three Things I've Learned This Year

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by Danny Brown on July 15, 2021

  
• “Friends” (Undirected Graph Connections) in Rails

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by David Eisinger on June 9, 2021

  
• Multi-Tenancy in Django

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by Dylan Lederle-Ensign on April 20, 2021

  
• Email Photos to an S3 Bucket with AWS Lambda (with Cropping, in Ruby)

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by David Eisinger on April 7, 2021

  
• Better ActionCable Errors

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by Eli Fatsi on April 6, 2021

  
• Docker + Rails: Solutions to Common Hurdles

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by Eli Fatsi on March 30, 2021

  
• Docker: Right for Us. Right for You?

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering, #Tooling

  by Eli Fatsi on March 29, 2021

  
• Let’s Write a Dang ElasticSearch Plugin

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by David Eisinger on March 15, 2021

  
• The Upgrade Before Christmas

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by Annie Kiley on December 23, 2020

  
• Building Blocks of Elixir: Plug

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering, #Tooling

  by Elom Amouzou on October 27, 2020

  
• How We Prevent Leaky Templates in Craft CMS

  Article Categories: #Code, #Front-end Engineering, #Back-end Engineering

  by Trevor Davis on August 12, 2020

  
• Why I Still Like Ruby (and a Few Things I Don’t Like)

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by David Eisinger on August 6, 2020

  
• Multi-tenancy with Postgres schemas and Ecto

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by Dylan Lederle-Ensign on August 5, 2020

  
• I Found a Good Use Case for MongoDB

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by Eli Fatsi on August 3, 2020

  
• Unscramble: a Programming Challenge

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by Chris Manning on May 11, 2020

  
• 5 things to Note in a New Phoenix 1.5 App

  Article Categories: #Code, #Back-end Engineering

  by Dylan Lederle-Ensign on April 24, 2020