Leadership How to demotivate your engineer from Day 0 The first day experience is more important than you think.
[WIP] How GraphQL Ruby parses queries Recently I started making small contributions to graphql-ruby. This PR to fix a parsing bug [https://github.com/rmosolgo/graphql-ruby/pull/2344] got me acquainted with the lexing and parsing of GraphQL queries in Ruby. On GraphQL Ruby's site, there is documentation on Phases of execution [https://graphql-ruby.
GraphQL Featured GraphQL Security Part I: Preventing 'traversal attacks' in your GraphQL API GraphQL APIs need authorization rules that prevent traversal attacks and granular rules to determine if a Viewer has access to a field.
Featured Hello World - Rebooting this Blog Hi there, thanks for visiting. I love reading technical blogs and owe it to them for most of my working knowledge. And of course, Stackoverflow :) I've always wanted to contribute back to the community that has given me so much. This blog is my baby step to put
Killing CORS Preflight Requests on a React SPA Our company's recruitment platform evolved from a Rails application into a classic SPA app. The Rails app serves as a RESTful API backend while the frontend app is built on React/Flux (with some Relay). Here's a bad visualization of how the setup looks like: The
Google Service Acccount Featured Using Service Accounts to act on behalf of your Google Apps Users Automated Interview Scheduling At AlphaSights [http://engineering.alphasights.com], we built an internal applicant tracking system and one of its coolest features is the ability to allow a candidate to pick an interview timeslot based on the interviewer's availability. Once a timeslot is confirmed, the system sends a
Beliefs How could I miss Giordano Bruno? In 2010, I was in Rome with Jacky, following a night tour. There was a brief mention of a martyr Giordano Bruno when we passed by a certain square. Today I watched the first episode of Cosmos [http://www.cosmosontv.com/] and there a good five minutes dedicated to Giordano
Life Brooklyn War Memorial I've been living in New York for almost 2 months, but last week was the first time I spent a day out on Saturday, just walking around downtown. Eventually my feet brought me to Brooklyn and the war memorial at Cadman Plaza Park caught my attention. The memorial
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Team Alpha A Happy New Year email to my team It's Chinese New Year tomorrow, it marks the first day of the year for the lunar calendar. It's a time of family reunion and hope for the year ahead. I hope to send the same well wishes to the team and may 2014 be a wonderful
Now on Ghost Okay, this blog was originally on Jekyll on a custom bootstrap based theme. It's ugly, but it's proudly home made and I always 'had plans' to improve it. Until I saw this pretty little thing called Ghost which is a new blogging platform based
config.assets.cache_store and Rails 4 config.assets.cache_store and Rails 4 Alex Mccaw's post on faster deploys on Heroku [http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/faster-deploys] got us pretty psyched up. We punched our memcached credentials in: # We use Heroku and Memcachier # This doesn't work config.assets.cache_store = :dalli_store, ENV[
Rails Experience Upgrading to Strong Params In our workplace app, most models are used by different code paths (e.g. a customer and internal user creating the same resource). Using attr_accessible, all we could do is to permit a large set of attributes except the ones explicitly assigned by the system (a lousy example, created_
Postgres Making PostgreSQL run faster I use Rails and Postgresql at work. We have a dataset that's growing fast, large and frequently transformed. This becomes a pain when there's a need to pull the data from remote and work on it locally. After a while, restoring on the local machine grew
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