By Tony Dewan

I recently ran into difficulty creating obvious and readable tests for React components that indirectly rely on promises. I ended up with a handy workaround that allows both native asynchronous and test-friendly synchronous…

By Tony Dewan and Matt Gordon

For Instrumental, we like to write our React components in CoffeeScript. It’s not the most common choice, but we love the aesthetics of CoffeeScript and we love writing React…

By Tony Dewan and Jason Gladish

Why Commit Messages Matter

If you’ve worked on a codebase of any age or with many collaborators, you’ve surely had the question: “why is this code this way?”

By Jonathon Fruchte

There are plenty of blog posts detailing GDPR compliance strategies. This is not one of them. Regardless of what you read, there are parts of GDPR that are simply not well defined (Art. 27…

By Tony Dewan and Matt Gordon

Tl;dr We dropped a tiny amount of AWS Lambda into our Rails app to get some much-needed job concurrency in a project with spiky demand and tight execution requirements.

How and Why We Pair

By Tony Dewan

Over the last few years, most of the product teams at Expected Behavior have…

By James Paden

As a long-time Google Ad(word)s user, I’ve always dreamed of adding custom ad text based on the search keyword. It turns out that functionality has existed for years, I just…