Mike articles - 33 total
SvelteKit & Prisma - A match made in digital heaven
Key Takeaways Most production applications need to persist & retrieve data. Prisma is a pretty...
I said goodbye to local development and so can you
Key Takeaways Individual developer efficiency is hard to measure, but directly impacts a company’s...
Why I Left Google and Joined Gitpod
tl;dr: After almost three years of working with global enterprises on their digital transformation at...
A Svelte component to format numbers
Photo by Nick Hiller on Unsplash Let's develop a Svelte component that formats numbers in a human re...
2021 - My Objectives & Key Results
Photo by 🇻🇪 Jose G. Ortega Castro 🇲🇽 on Unsplash tl;dr: My personal 2021 OKRs are publicly available...
A smart guide for your career as a software engineer - My new book
You can buy the book at https://gum.co/a-smart-guide-for-your-career-as-a-software-engineer. Do yo...
2020 - Year in Review
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash That's a wrap for 2020, the most unpredictable year in a long tim...
Why I turned my homepage into a timeline
Photo by Félix Prado on Unsplash What has happened so far? On December 21, 2019 I migrate...
You ask, I share my opinion - Free ebook
Cover photo by https://unsplash.com/@robschreckhise Since I released my Cloud Native Web Development...
Svelte now supports TypeScript
That's it, Svelte now supports TypeScript :-)! https://svelte.dev/blog/svelte-and-typescript
How I wrote 214 pages for a web development book with 19 pull requests in 3 months
Photo credit: Florian Klauer About the book The best place to learn about the book is on...
A complete rebuild of www.mikenikles.com
Photo credit: Thought Catalog It's been an interesting few evenings to rebuild www.mikenikles.com:...
I'm starting a YouTube channel to journal my side projects
Hi 👋, So... I've been writing blog posts for a few years. First on Medium, then at www.mikenikles.co...
Cloud Native Web Development Project Overview - A diagram
Today's diagram illustrates the entire project architecture for my upcoming book, Cloud Native Web De...
What does web development look like in 2030?
Two of my predictions: Distributed static page generation Web on IoT Curious to learn what others...
Hosting architecture - A diagram
Today's diagram illustrates the hosting architecture based on Firebase. Check out the other posts...
Traditional testing pyramid vs user-focused testing pyramid - A Diagram
Today's diagram illustrates the difference between a traditional testing pyramid that focuses on deve...
Server-side rendering (SSR) vs static site generator (SSG) - A Diagram
As part of my book, Cloud Native Web Development, I create a diagram per day until I have all diagram...
Mutable vs Immutable Deployments - A Diagram
Hey DEV community, As I'm getting closer to my June 28, 2020 deadline to release my book, Cloud Nati...
I am writing a book: Cloud Native Web Development
Photo by Paul Hanaoka on Unsplash On February 28, 2020 I decided to write a book - that was 10 weeks...
Develop Cypress end-to-end tests on Gitpod.io - Virtual Desktop included
This post first appeared on my blog at www.mikenikles.com. Photo by Jessica Lewis on Unsplash...
What's your ratio between direct and transient NPM dependencies?
Run the following commands and share the two numbers. 1️⃣ npm ls --parseable --depth 0 | wc -l 2️⃣ n...
Firebase Hosting for static assets of a Sapper web app on Cloud Run
This post first appeared on my blog at www.mikenikles.com. This is a follow-up post to Sapper, Googl...
Sapper, Google Cloud Run, Continuous Deployment - A boilerplate template
This post first appeared on my blog at www.mikenikles.com. For a while now I have used Sapper / Svel...
A Link Content Previewer with Svelte & Sapper
This post first appeared on my blog at www.mikenikles.com. Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash The inspirat...
How long does it typically take you to go from ... to ...?
Consider any tasks (automated or manual) and the total rough estimate of how long it takes to go betw...
What is your definition of cloud-native?
Hi, As part of some research for a book I'm writing, I'm curious to learn how people define cloud-na...
Why I use a cloud-based development environment and how you can too
This post first appeared on my blog at www.mikenikles.com. Photo by myself, Sulsseeli in Switzerland...
How to use Svelte for your Google Docs add-on
Introduction This post first appeared on my blog at www.mikenikles.com. I recently found...
Who's interested in a Svelte/Sapper course based on a real world web app?
Update: This is now available at www.mikenikles.com/cloud-native-web-development as a hands-on guideb...