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Now that 2017 is officially up and going it's about time to solidify some of my goals for the new year. I already talked about how 2016 was for me and hinted at a few areas of growth that I want to focus on moving forward. Which may be a bit optimistic, as Katie and I will be welcoming a little girl…
Continuous integration and deployment is one of my favorite parts about working at Shutterstock. The team can push, run automated tests, and deploy many times in a single day. I've been wanting to try to build up something like this for my own projects and, by using a combination of Digital Ocean,…
Last year I started building out domain repositories in order to encapsulate the data retrieval for my website. They were easy to build, straightforward to implement, and simple to test. At the time all of the data retrieval was through a standard sql database, so all I had to do was pass in a…