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SumIt’s journey from Concept to Beta Launch — Co-Founder Interview

I sat down with the Co-Founder of SumIt to discuss the strategy, challenges and learnings of our most recent project.
Kelly Gebo
July 28, 2022
How to decide if Jamstack is the right choice for your MVP

After tapping Jamstack for a few MVP builds, we’ve summarized considerations for your own product and some tips for digging into third party providers.
Kelly Gebo and Jimmy Thigpen
July 28, 2022
Taking the most out of Stimulus.js

Coming from SPA frameworks, Stimulus.js might feel underwhelming or frustrating. Here are some guides to help us take the best out of it.
Matheus Richard
July 26, 2022
Tips for Joining an Existing Project 💡

If, like me, you don’t like change (who does?!), here are some tips that I have picked up along the way to try and help ease the transition onto an existing project.
Sami Birnbaum
July 25, 2022
Address Tech Debt with SRE Panel Recap

Recap of technical leadership panel on addressing tech debt with site reliability engineering.
Victoria Guido
July 22, 2022
- SRE
- Technical Debt
- DevOps
- Events
Value Object Semantics in Ruby

What is the correct behavior of hash, ==, eql? and equal? for value objects?
Joël Quenneville
July 18, 2022
- Ruby
- Good Code
- Domain Modeling
- Web
Booleans don't exist in Ruby

An investigation into Ruby’s C, stdlib, interfaces, libraries, tooling, and ecosystem into what, exactly, Ruby thinks a Boolean is.
Mike Burns
July 15, 2022
- Ruby
How we used DesignOps and Figma to scale our team

We looked to better document our designs and project background in a useful and clear way to support a growing team. This article outlines that experience and what success we found using Figma to support DesignOps.
Steven Neamonitakis, Kelly Gebo & Andrew Spencer
July 14, 2022
- Design
- Product Strategy
- Process
- Processes
- Product Design
- Figma
- Productivity
- Tools
AWS Summit - Virtual EMEA Recap

Recap of the AWS Virtual EMEA event.
Olamide Olaoye
July 12, 2022
- AWS
- DevOps
- Events
What my father taught me about software development

My father is a construction man. What could he teach me about being a software engineer? Well, quite a lot.
Matheus Richard
July 5, 2022
- Learning
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