Oh boy…I really get my head tangled when ever I attempt to setup a new elastic stack instance (both on my dev machines and VMs in production). Each new version of Elastic brings great new features and things worth checking out but WOW is it a terrible experience setting it…

Ok, thats a lot of technology words for a blog title — but hey, it got you here right? As such let me tell you about how you can get a powerful single definition model system running with this tech stack. Earlier I wrote about using Nx/Prisma & GraphQL here…

You may have read an article I published late last year titled “Nx, React & Tailwind made Simple”. At the time I wrote that, Tailwind 2.0 was just getting released and there were some sharp edges with postcss compatibility— which is why I wrote the thing. Well, its about three…

Every framework and library seems to have its own SDL format for data models. This leads to model definition duplication at best and complete and utter chaos at worst. This article details one approach that is fairly simple and useful when you have both libraries and applications that need to…

In this ongoing series of things I do with my projects to make them work, I thought it might be good to talk about setting up deployments. …

Data makes the world go around so they say. In this article I detail how I use Prisma with Nx to maintain my data models. It is an approach that keeps the model isolated from the underlying “implementation details” and keeps me sane when things in the model need to…

UPDATE (Feb.17.2021): New, simpler approach is available — see https://kuccello.medium.com/nx-react-tailwind-made-simple-new-and-improved-v2-d79f8b173622 Original Post I am writing this post after doing something that worked and then forgetting what I did. I tried searching for a similar solution to help me recall what I forgot I did and discovered that the info out…

Docker is an excellent tool for packaging and shipping software. I won’t spend time championing the virtues of containerization as it has been covered by many others who are better wordsmiths than me. What are containers and why do you need them? Docker exploded onto the scene in 2013, and it's been causing excitement in IT circles ever since. The application…www.cio.com What are Containers and their benefits | Google Cloud From Gmail to YouTube to Search, everything at Google runs in containers. Containerization allows our development teams…cloud.google.com

After 6 years I have decided to make a change. I have resigned from Google and this Friday is my last day. Next Monday, I’m starting a new gig at Credit Karma (www.creditkarma.com), a fintech company. …