by Christian Peters | Jun 15, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
When working on a front-end project, it can be hard to keep consistency with your file’s formatting (spacing, indentation, quotation style, etc.). Prettier works with your code to ensure consistency and allows your team to set shared standards. Prettier works... 
by Chad Michel | Jun 7, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
Azure’s Application Gateway service is a load balancer. It allows for the distribution of traffic across multiple servers. This isn’t a tool we often use at Don’t Panic Labs; we tend to use more of Azure’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) tools. However,... 
by Chad Michel | Jun 1, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
In my previous blog post, we dove into API Keys and AWS’s API Gateway. What we covered was pretty straightforward: we globally applied an API key and usage plan to an API. But we don’t have to do that. We can apply an API Key to an individual resource, not all... 
by Chad Michel | May 25, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
API Gateway is an Amazon product that sits in front of APIs we create (which are probably hosted in AWS Lambda). Sometimes we want to limit who can access certain APIs. There are a variety of ways we can accomplish this. The first and most obvious is with API keys.... 
by Chad Michel | May 17, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
Building modern software often involves a Single Page Application (SPA) calling to a backend service. This is pretty straightforward, but there are more steps than you would expect. In this blog post, we will walk through creating an Angular application that calls a... 
by Russ Guill | May 12, 2022 | News
Local software design and engineering company Don’t Panic Labs is excited to announce the return of its annual towel drive for People’s City Mission. From May 16th to May 27th, Don’t Panic Labs is encouraging all of Lincoln to donate towels in any condition for use at... 
by Chad Michel | May 10, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
After creating an ASP.NET Beanstalk application, you might be wondering, “Where are my logs?” Without configuring CloudWatch, my logs do show within the Beanstalk UI. Note: The below image assumes no CloudWatch. After clicking Logs, you need to click Request Logs and... 
by Chad Michel | May 3, 2022 | Tools
Years ago, I worked at a CDN company, so I am always interested in what is going on in the content delivery space. Where is the industry headed? Last week, a major shake-up in the space occurred. Google is now enabling people to deliver videos with the same platform... 
by Chad Michel | Apr 26, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
Automated testing is an integral part of any software development project. Developers should be building these tests while they work on the actual code. A significant value of automated tests is that they can be run on every pull request. This can ensure that the... 
by Doug Durham | Apr 21, 2022 | Entrepreneurship, Your Vision + Our Engineering
It is a very exciting day for us at Don’t Panic Labs. Today, we are announcing that we have completed the purchase of investment fund Nebraska Global’s interest in the company. I’m not sure how to put this other than saying that this is a big deal. Perhaps it’s as...