On the Advertising Applications team here at GumGum, the bulk of the job consists of fleshing out features for a number of web-applications designed to help users with efficient advertising campaign setup, publisher on-boarding/setup, or provide easy-to-digest metrics to measure various KPIs. In the background, a SpringBoot REST API aids…

Developing basic websites with Hugo is simple and fast, but what if we wanted to bring it to another level and use JavaScript frameworks like React or Preact? Integrating these two technologies can be tricky sometimes as you need to spend some time configuring it, and in the end it…

A Tale As Old As Time (Or At Least Since 1840) Once upon a time, the business that employed you had a beautiful glass slipper, a set of use-cases that accurately represented their business needs. The developers, hopped up on caffeine and optimism, discussed and planned meticulously for many software solutions to aid in these business needs, and after many pros-and-cons…

Introduction Most of the applications we use at GumGum are accessed through JumpCloud (e.g: Slack, Zoom, Sumologic). Users are already familiar with this tool, and keeping a single login for all of them is a great advantage. …

Light or dark mode? Which to make your site default? With a simple css media query, prefers-color-scheme, you can read the minds of users (well their operating system preferences). Light and dark mode has become a widely adopted appearance setting found in most operating systems today. Users have already taken…

Introduction In this post we will discuss Testcontainers, a Java library for building more robust testing. When talking about testing, we are familiar with unit testing and integration testing. While the first aims to guarantee the testing of a single piece of code, the second one aims to test the functionality…

An article by Lisa and Xiaobin Ran — Introduction Troubleshooting web-based issues can quickly become exercises in patience and extreme outside-the-box thinking, especially when there are multiple technologies, codebases, and partners at play. That’s why any tools that allow us to troubleshoot our case-specific problems can be so important. …

Introduction Back in August 2019, I wrote git and git-flow, a guide. I intended it to be used internally by GumGum to familiarize new hires with the workflow we use. It covers a wide range of topics for people new to git and git-flow; however, it doesn’t cover everything I wanted…