You’ll likely join a new team at some point in your career. For some, this can be an exciting opportunity. For others, joining a new team can bring nervousness and stress. During a lean-coffee style meeting at Source Allies, the small breakout group I joined wanted to get ideas and...

What's the quickest and easiest way to deploy a serverless API to AWS? If you're an absolute expert in configuring and managing AWS API Gateway, then maybe it's by writing cloudformation templates and deploying your code. However, if you're like me and often want to spin up APIs quickly to...

This year Source Allies hosted our third annual internal hackathon. Our goals for this year’s Hackathon were to involve more teammates both in the planning and participation of Hackathon, adapt gracefully to unknown changes along the way due to Covid-19, continue to have projects be successful by the end of...

Angular State Management Anti-Patterns When looking at an Angular application, there are several powerful state management techniques available. There are built-in component bindings like the input and output bindings, services using RxJs and observables, and state management libraries like NgRx, Akita, MobX and NgXs. Well managed state can improve application...

We believe companies that invest in great technology products can achieve strategic competitive advantages within their market, regardless of industry or size. This can be especially true during COVID times, when companies are looking for ways to make it easier to connect with their customers. Accessibility and product ease can...

I am glad you are here! Let’s talk about decluttering. The straightforward explanation of Decluttering as per Google is getting rid of stuff you don’t need or use anymore. For me it is a lot more than letting go of items. For me, it changed my perspective of looking at...

Source Allies had three apprentices during Summer 2020! They got to learn and gain experience with test-driven development, pair programming, cloud infrastructure, mobile development, and much more. Each apprentice had their own unique experience over the course of the summer, and gave a presentation in August to showcase their growth...

DEFINING THE PROBLEM Our global industrial automation manufacturer needed a platform that allowed sales representatives and third-party technicians to view customer product details from their mobile devices. Sales reps/technicians were used to having to travel back to their office in order to access availability, pricing, and item history. As you...

The previous post highlighted the struggle in having to maintain a development environment in our cross-platform, multi-language, cloud-native, microservices-oriented world. The operations side of many organizations have leaned on Docker to provide some sanity. Let’s look at how we can use containers on the dev side as well. The VS...

The subject of this blog post is about Docker. Except, it’s not really about Docker. It’s about changing our mentality around our development environments. Specifically, about the way we haven’t yet broken free of our old patterns in setting up our development machine. To borrow the adage, this post is...