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Updated Jan. 21st, 2018: Added AppRun and dva. Keeping up with JavaScript frameworks can be a challenge. There are a lot of them, and seemingly another one every month. How do you know which ones might be right for your project? What are their strengths and weaknesses? How do you

Laws of UX is a collection of the key maxims that designers must consider when building user interfaces.

An Exhaustive List of all the Elements you need to have/test Before Launching your Website To Production.

Have you ever heard of SEMA? It’s a fairly esoteric system for measuring how good a software team is. No, wait! Don’t follow that link! It will take you about six years just to understa…

Two years ago today, I stocked up on canned chili, dusted off the desk in my home office and officially left my job. Photo Credit: kolbisneat If you want the whole story from the early days, I wrote this post 150 days in on how I turned down a guaranteed 6-figure payday to go into a…

How to hash passwords properly using salt. Why hashes should be salted and how to use salt correctly.

Discord continues to grow faster than we expected and so does our user-generated content. With more users comes more chat messages. In…

webpack is a brilliant tool for bundling frontend assets. When things start to slow down, though, its batteries-included nature and the…

JavaScript UI frameworks and libraries work in cycles. Every six months or so, a new one pops up, claiming that it has revolutionized UI development. Thousands of developers adopt it into their new projects, blog posts are written, Stack Overflow questions are asked and answered, and then a newer (and even more revolutionary) framework pops up to usurp the throne.

We've been running Kubernetes for deep learning research for over two years. While our largest-scale workloads manage bare cloud VMs directly, Kubernetes provides a fast iteration cycle, reasonable scalability, and a lack of boilerplate which makes it ideal for most of our experiments. We now operate several Kubernetes clusters (some