Month: March 2017

Keeping your Redis in shape in 3 simple steps

Redis is a great NoSQL database, not only for cache, but also as a primary data source (and we’re doing both!). Because it is so popular, there are many hosting solutions for Redis – and most of them offer plans with different memory sizes. If you use a hosting solution like we do, then you’re probably encountering a similar problem: how do you keep your Redis instance in the plan’s limit? Here I explain how to do this easily by…

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Userless User Authentication for Mobile Application

Like all the other cool kids, we at Soluto have a mobile app and a lot of micro-services that this app utilizes. Recently, we added a feature to our app that required sensitive user data, and for this feature we had to add some sort of authentication between our app and the services it utilizes. Usually, this problem is pretty simple to solve: Just add social login to the app, and use those credentials to authenticate the requests. This solution…

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Size matters: how I used React Native to make my app look great on every device

Every example on this post can be found here. Have you ever had your designer hand you a cool design for your React Native app that you developed on, say, an iPhone 7 – and when you try to run it on a tablet, it looks like it was left in the dryer for too long? That’s probably because the design was created using pixels whereas all dimensions in React Native are unitless, represented by “dp” (density-independent pixels). Simply put…

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Testing for dummies Product Managers

Bugs – we all hate them One of your team’s features has a bug, again… You either can’t learn what you hoped to from this feature (is the feature working as we expected it to work? Do users like our new feature?), or does it cause a bad user experience? Best case it’s annoying, worst case it costs you time and money. Now you have to navigate rough waters with customers, and fix the issue instead of moving forward to…

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