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…
Articles
A collection of technical posts written by the Aha! engineering team.
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…
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…
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…