Author: Colby Fayock
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Give The Gift of a Tech Debt Sprint This Agile Holiday Season
Holidays can be a challenging time in software development. How can you make the most of your velocity and energize the team at the same time? The holiday challenge For a lot of teams, the holidays are a time of year when a large amount of peope take off after saving their PTO for the…
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Give The Gift of a Tech Debt Sprint This Agile Holiday Season
Holidays can be a challenging time in software development. How can you make the most of your velocity and energize the team at the same time? The holiday challenge For a lot of teams, the holidays are a time of year when a large amount of peope take off after saving their PTO for the…
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Mapping with Leaflet and React
Mapping is hard, but spinning up a new app that renders maps doesn’t have to be. Here’s how you can easily get started working with maps in a new React app. Not that AAA map under your car seat Maps have been around for thousands of years, but they’ve become more complex and powerful within…
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E84 @ 2019 ESIP Summer Meeting
We’re passionate about Earth Science Data and helping to solve the challenges in that field. At this year’s ESIP Summer Meeting, we have five E84 team members speaking and moderating across six different sessions, with an additional four of us out there to chat and support the event. Here’s where you can find us if…
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E84 ❤️ Gatsby & JAMstack – Introducing Gatsby [Spark]
The JAMstack generally has become ubiquitous as a solid and reliable architecture for building applications for the web. As much as we didn’t know it, the JAMstack has been part of E84’s blood before the term was coined, as we worked through application challenges focusing on serving static applications and websites using AWS S3 and…
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E84 @ AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington DC
We’ve been heads down, hard at work tackling challenges in Earth Science and Disaster Response and are ready to share what we’re doing with all of you. June 11-12, we’ll be joining AWS at their Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC to talk about some of these challenges and how we’re working to solve them.…
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Write Merge Requests Like You're Posting to Instagram
Merge requests (or pull requests) are a huge part of a team’s development process. It’s the main gatekeeper preventing developers from throwing whatever they want into the default branch. It’s also a reference to the history and understanding of the changes someone is making to an application, giving code reviewers and testers more confidence in…
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Coffee as Culture
Element 84 isn’t unique because most of us like coffee. Embracing everyone’s unique ways of making and enjoying it is what makes it part of our culture. Starting from a simple bean We all have our different ways of making it. Some like to use a pod in a machine, while others like that machine…