Why Gatsby? One of the greatest aspects of modern web development is how modular and composable everything has become. Building an application these days has become a lot like tinkering with building blocks: piecing together packages, APIs, services and so on. Each doing what they do best. We’ve learned...
It’s Friday afternoon. Do you deploy to production? A lot of teams are afraid to push their code to production before the weekend because something might go wrong that may impact their well-earned weekend. Today, I don’t want to dive too deep into how we can create enough...
It’s safe to say that programming, and everything around it, evolved tremendously since the Internet’s beginnings. If you’ve ever created a Frontpage website or battled with Dreamweaver and Flash applications you know we’ve traveled a long way to get where we are now, and all along...
Because we are constantly learning, madewithlove hosts CTO dinners as a way of facilitating conversations between CTOs of Belgium. The role of a CTO is complex and varies depending on the stage you are in. It’s important to prepare yourself and build skills for what is coming next. I...
No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy In a continued push for asynchronous work, we attempted to tackle one of the last major meetings we had — Sprint Planning. I’ve found this to be the most dreaded meeting for developers since it’s often a time sink. With...
If you try researching “Hexagonal Architecture” these days, you will find a lot of articles and videos that can feel overwhelming because they often include a much broader view of Hexagonal Architecture than was originally proposed by its author Alistar Cockburn. This view often mixes Hexagonal Architecture with other architectures...
Integrating Elasticsearch with Laravel enhances search capabilities beyond simple LIKE matches. This guide covers Elasticsearch basics, setting up a local environment with Docker, creating a demo application, and implementing Elasticsearch integration using observers and repositories.
As engineers, we want to focus on delivering value to customers. We noticed that a lot of the projects we work on are following agile processes, but in a format that misses the mark. That’s why we started experimenting with how we could bring back the right focus. I’...
