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How Uclusion Makes Life Easier for the Team Lead
How Uclusion Makes Life Easier for the Team Lead
As a point of departure let’s use Lane Wagner’s observations on four problems faced by current common process:
David Israel
Jul 16, 2020
Getting the highest ROI out of Contractors
Getting the highest ROI out of Contractors
Uclusion, works a lot with contractors. If you’ve ever done so yourself, you understand that the single biggest problem is making sure…
Ben Follis
Jul 13, 2020
Is Testim worth using for automated testing?
Is Testim worth using for automated testing?
For the past couple of weeks, I have been using testim.io as a tool to create tests for the company Uclusion’s user interface, so it’s…
Ethan Israel
Jul 10, 2020
How Teams Work with Uclusion
How Teams Work with Uclusion
We’ve all seen that email is too silo’ed; important discussions get trapped and never see the light of day. However group chat has gone…
David Israel
Jul 7, 2020
How Product Managers Work with Uclusion
How Product Managers Work with Uclusion
Sometimes the terms collaboration, brainstorming and empowerment get mixed up and since Uclusion is a great tool for all of them it can be…
David Israel
Jul 7, 2020
Tests, Promises and Websockets
Uclusion is powered by an eventually consistent REST API and uses Web Sockets to inform the client when data changes server side. This…
Ben Follis
Jun 27, 2020
Designing SaaS Rest APIs for web clients
Designing SaaS Rest APIs for web clients
For a typical browser IndexedDB storage gives you access to as much as half the free disk space. Once you convince yourself to use Rest…
David Israel
Jun 23, 2020
Notes on S3 backed File Downloads
Uclusion recently introduced arbitrary file uploads to our Workspaces or Stories (we previously allowed only images), and there are a few…
Ben Follis
Jun 18, 2020
An Opinionated Review of Asynchronous Team Collaboration Tools for 2020
An Opinionated Review of Asynchronous Team Collaboration Tools for 2020
The opinionated part is that this review assumes the main purpose of team collaboration software is to serve the communications needs of…
David Israel
Jun 16, 2020
The Story Behind Uclusion
We founded Uclusion to solve the problem of working on what is most important. Over the years we’ve had many experiences that led us to…
David Israel
Jun 11, 2020
Structuring your asynchronous communication
“Open offices” became popular without really studying what affect they would have. Similarly there is a tendency to adopt communication…
David Israel
Jun 6, 2020
Gotchas with Service Workers and SPAs
Uclusion is a single page app (SPA), which means the browser doesn’t see very many navigation events while the user is going about their…
Ben Follis
Jun 5, 2020
Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About DynamoDB But Didn’t Know to Ask
What are the benefits to DynamoDB early in a project?
David Israel
Jun 3, 2020
Working with remote developers
Working with remote developers
I’m going to be up front about Uclusion being the solution. However before we go there I will explain in detail my experience trying to…
David Israel
Jun 1, 2020
Stopping memory leaks in AWS Amplify Hub
Uclusion makes extensive use of AWS Amplify Hub to allow components to subscribe to data change events. In Hub it’s really easy to create…
Ben Follis
Jun 1, 2020
Product direction — Product Market Fit is harder than everyone admits
The typical corporate response to any problem is to create a job description for it — enter the Product Manager. Unfortunately, most PMs’…
David Israel
May 29, 2020
Getting a good Logo for your Business
Getting a good Logo for your Business
To the left is Uclusion’s first logo. It was created with Looka, and while unobtrusive, certainly doesn’t do a good job of representing…
Ben Follis
May 28, 2020
Why Uclusion is free forever for open source collaborators
Why Uclusion is free forever for open source collaborators
Uclusion uses a lot of open source software and free forever is our way of giving back. The first hit for “open source asynchronous…
David Israel
May 27, 2020
Powering Client Side Search with React Contexts
Powering Client Side Search with React Contexts
In this article, I’m going to talk about Client Side Search, and how to integrate a client search library into your React Contexts.
Ben Follis
May 26, 2020
Navigation in React
Uclusion usually avoids creating our own way of doing things but for React navigation we need absolute control of what was loaded and what…
David Israel
May 24, 2020
Capabilities and JWT Security
Capabilities and JWT Security
Security for products like Uclusion, is a tricky beast. You need to provide a robust security model, but you don’t have a lot of wall…
Ben Follis
May 23, 2020
Wizards aren’t just for Hogwarts
Wizards aren’t just for Hogwarts
Uclusion, like any full featured app, needs a way to introduce concepts and workflows to new users. A long standing method of doing this…
Ben Follis
May 23, 2020
Roll your own versus existing GraphQL implementation for PWA
Uclusion has a PWA client that needs to
David Israel
May 22, 2020
Authenticated S3 Downloads Without Passing Through Your Lambdas
Authenticated S3 Downloads Without Passing Through Your Lambdas
In my previous story I covered how Uclusion lets users securely upload files to S3 without having to route the upload data through our…
Ben Follis
May 20, 2020
Using a message bus and React context instead of Redux with promise based APIs
Why do you want to do this?
David Israel
May 20, 2020
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