Welcome to the Vevo Product & Engineering Blog. We’ve dabbled with this format in the past, but our 2018 resolution is to share more with the greater engineering community. One way we’ll be doing this is by posting about things we learn, hard problems we’ve solved and occasionally open sourcing…

Adapted from chapter 4 of Isomorphic Web Applications, discusses the React component lifecycle. — The code and examples in this article are part of a larger example app that is used through the Isomorphic Web Applications book. You can find the complete code in this github repo: https://github.com/isomorphic-dev-js/complete-isomorphic-example. …

I recently finished reading Confessions of a Public Speaker by Scott Berkun because I’m ramping up to do more speaking at both work and at conferences this spring and summer. Overall, I found it be well written with good tips and perspectives on public speaking. I’d give it a 4.2/5. …

Even as a teenager, I knew that someday I would live in San Francisco. I’ve long felt a connection to this city — a place that is unique, diverse, exciting and pulsing with life. Upon moving here (returning to the bay area after living in Denver), I discovered that San…

This article has been excerpted from Isomorphic Development with JavaScript Isomorphic Web App Overview To understand what an isomorphic web app is, we’re going to use an example web app called All Things Westies. On this site, you can find places to adopt a Westie (West Highland White Terrier, a small white breed of…