2022-02-11
Migrating from EC2 to ECS Services and Tasks
Our old system architecture here at Aha! has served us well. On top of RDS, ElastiCache, and other AWS services, we had hundreds of EC…
Articles
A collection of technical posts written by the Aha! engineering team.
2022-02-08
Fiscal years and how JavaScript is wrong about months
Developers love working with dates. One day, someone asked themselves, what if the year didn’t start in January, but could start in any…
2021-09-23
How to build a dark theme
So you want to implement a dark theme for your app? All your favorite applications have it and your app should too. But will it be trivial…
2021-06-30
90% of Rails N+1 queries solved with a drop-in fix
N+1 queries come up very often when working with Rails. N+1 queries are a silent performance tax both for your application and for…
2021-05-28
Web components and implicit slot names
Since the dawn of the internet, web developers have had an unfulfilled desire. We've wanted "living elements" that can automatically react…
2021-05-27
3 steps to an engaging new user experience for developers
First impressions matter a lot when you're launching a new product. Optimizing for time-until-Aha! is no easy feat. This is uniquely true…
2021-05-17
How we enable hot-reloading in production for extension developers
Aha! Develop is our extendable agile development tool. You can completely customize the UI, workflow, and integrations through extensions to…
2021-05-03
Automatically avoiding GraphQL N+1s
Some people, when faced with an API problem, think “I’ll use GraphQL!” And now they have N+1 problems. N+1 problems occur when you want to…
2020-12-14
Log management using AWS Athena
Many SaaS providers will happily sell you a turn-key log management system, and in the early days of a startup when you value time over…
2020-09-01
Building our new Gantt chart
Our old Gantt chart served us well for the past six years. It was doing what it was designed to do, but some of the things we wanted to add…