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

2020-06-02

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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

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

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

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

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

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

If you work with JavaScript at all, you probably saw a ton of noise yesterday about a vulnerability in the event-stream npm package…

2018-04-18

It is a painful realization. You just added a beautiful, multi-page description into your bug tracker's text editor, complete with photos…

2017-09-07

Aha! is a Rails monolith. Although we have embraced front end technologies, such as webpack and React, Rails is the glue that holds…

2017-06-06

Drop everything. This is what our team does when a bug is found. Recently, a customer reported an issue in a new feature that had just gone…