Tag: Tools
Relax, It’s CouchDB
CouchDB is a NoSQL database solution, which means it supports persistence of data. But you don’t have to spend a lot of time designing the relational structure upfront. This makes starting development with a NoSQL system easier than typical SQL databases because you don’t have to spend time defining relationships. Also, many NoSQL solutions favor…
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Getting Started with Marten
As I wrote in my previous blog post, PostgreSQL is a very capable SQL database. But one thing very interesting about PostgreSQL is its excellent support for JSON documents. The ability to store JSON documents in a database basically allows the database to run like a NoSQL document store, effectively combining relational and non-relational into…
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Getting Started with PostgreSQL
Writing software applications involves building many components. One of these components is the client, the piece of the application that the user interaction interacts with. Another component is the backend business logic, typically writing that in some server-side technology. The backend business logic enforces the required business rules. But another standard piece of application software…
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Using LocalStack
Local development is always a priority for us at Don’t Panic Labs. We want a great local development experience because it allows each developer to work independently. Part of having a great local development experience means having all the tools you need on your developer machine. If you are running a system that needs access…
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Azure DevOps Delivery Plans
Designing projects is challenging, which is probably a big reason why some people don’t even try. But just because something is difficult doesn’t mean it isn’t worth doing. Sometimes the most valuable things we do are difficult, and often the value in software development is in the difficult parts. Designing projects has a few obvious…
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Firebase Emulator!
Having the flexibility to do local development is essential for successful projects. While we have successfully completed projects without a good local development story, I feel we often regret it. Without a good local development story, we often have multiple developers sharing cloud resources. When developers share cloud resources we often end with contention over…
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Quick Look – Azurite
Creating a good local development experience allows for developers to run independently, with no shared resources and few online connections. This way, developers can code while having a minimal impact on other developers. Now sometimes, you can’t get away without requiring developers to use the cloud while developing a system. One thing Azure does well…
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NDepend: Powerful Static Code Analysis
How do you effectively evaluate a software solution? This is a question commonly heard in software development. It reminds me of a question posed in Caddyshack, “How do you compare yourself to other golfers?”, to which Chevy Chase responds with, “By height.” Analysis of a system usually requires a lot of leg work, poring through…
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Is Teams Microsoft’s Sleeper Hit?
Microsoft has built a lot of products that many of us use every day: Windows, Office, Visual Studio, Azure, and Xbox. They’ve all been hits, but there’s one product that is quickly building steam and I expect will become their next big success story: Microsoft Teams. A few years ago, it felt like everyone was…
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Getting Creative with Google’s Game Builder
Google has released a fun and engaging game building environment. Simply called “Game Builder”, this engine is unlikely to produce the next Halo or Call of Duty, but it’s a quick and easy way to create a video game…and that’s pretty awesome for anyone who’s wanted to try out their own game designs. Can’t you…
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