In this article, I would be showing how to use both the AWS SNS and SES to dispatch events, we would learn how to create a topic, trigger SNS to dispatch to the topic, and subsequently integrate SES to send emails once we receive the dispatched event. To help us…

Keeping and managing environment variables(secrets, API keys, certificates, etc) has for long been a subject of debate amongst experts. From storage in .env files to managed git environment to the usages of third-party storage platforms. All in a bid to secure an application from external threats. In this article, we…

There has been a buzz of late in the tech community about serverless and what it brings to the table. As someone who loves learning and trying new things, I decided to see whether this whole buzz was worth it. In this article, we would see how to set up…

Tailwind CSS has refined the way we think about styling web components and has been greatly adopted by industry players, companies, and developers. In this article, I will be showing how to use Tailwind CSS with our favourite cross-platform mobile framework: React Native! …

Oftentimes, we create mongoose models, start-up our servers, and never bother to test if the models actually work independently from the server as they should. This article will show how to unit test your Mongoose model using Jest. Installing Dependencies We would set up a basic project containing our model and test…

In this article, I show how to set up postman collection to automatically include an authorization token when making requests to secured endpoints. Edit Collection Firstly, I am assuming you have already created a collection. I created one called medium. Next we proceed to edit this collection. …

With the rate of technological advancement taking place in this century, we are always finding new ways to automate our tasks and make our lives better. Chatbots help us reduce our dependence on our manual ways of communication and also challenges our preconceived way of implementing solutions. What is a ChatBot? In its mere…

There is no single and accurate test for knowledge, however, every organization must prepare its own process to vet and hire talents. The outcome: A series of rigorous, specialized, and challenging set of tests that evaluate your coding skills, communication skills, problem-solving abilities, and your personality in general; this process…

A crash course on effective laziness — I feel quite lazy to find the best intro to this piece, I’d just lazily get to the crux of the matter. The writing of this article even took a lazy approach from the title (which I got from a book I read five years ago and which best expresses…