Packaging your app and hosting it in Elastic Beanstalk is great to get the service up and running. I wrote about this process for a Node application in my earlier article. However, hosting our app with live users is a bit more challenging. We need to make sure the app…

Interviewing is hard —and this includes both conduction and evaluation. I outlined some key points for effective interviewing in my earlier post. In this post, I wanted to go over how to write the interview feedback and make sure we are making the right decision as an interviewer. Why is interview feedback important? Make the right decision As human…

Login with Facebook, Google, and other such authentication providers can provide a seamless login experience to users. For a website supporting both email and social provider logins, almost 50% of users will choose a social provider to log in. I am going to outline how to add login with Facebook…

Deploying a web app with Vue.js in the frontend and Node.js in the backend for the first time can be a daunting task. It required quite a bit of reading and understanding AWS specifics to resolve some of the issues I faced along the way. I took one approach of…

Interviewing a candidate is hard, and is as much an art as it is a skill. It usually takes us months of working with someone to understand their skillsets, knowledge, attitude, and motivation level. Interviewing is about doing that in a few hours. Besides, interviews are the first interaction of…