2020-07-09
A treatise on JavaScript dependencies
JavaScript dependency trees are a bit of a punching bag in the programming world. Even in a small project, the directory can easily reach…
Articles
A collection of technical posts written by the Aha! engineering team.
2020-06-29
Quantum computing in the real world
Why does it matter? As we have recently entered a new decade, I have been thinking about the next leaps in computer science and where some…
2020-06-24
Transaction deadlocks on ActiveRecord associations
Everyone is thrilled with the new feature you’ve just deployed! But as it starts to gain popularity, you wonder if there might be a bug…
2020-06-02
Search on a static site with Netlify functions
Recently, our team at Aha! has been working on migrating our public marketing website from a traditional Rails app to a Gatsby application…
2019-07-30
How do you test multiprocess code in Node?
A little while ago, I wrote about using Node's library. creates other processes to do work instead of tying up a single process. When you…
2019-07-25
Put your engineers on support
Let's talk about your bug backlog. You know you have it -- somewhere in your issue tracker, a stack of dozens or maybe even hundreds of bugs…
2019-06-13
Improve reliability with a Node.js library
A Node.js process runs a single thread. Single-threadedness isn't a problem if you run short pieces of code and let Node do other work in…
2019-04-29
Use `with` and `describe_instance_method`
Want specs that look like this? Read on. Like most of America, lately I've been trying Marie Kondo's method of tidying up around my house…
2019-04-17
Our Secret Sauce Is React Native
It's been an up-and-down kind of year for React Native. Last summer, Udacity and Airbnb announced that they were moving off of the platform…
2018-11-27
event-stream vulnerability explained
If you work with JavaScript at all, you probably saw a ton of noise yesterday about a vulnerability in the event-stream npm package…