Agreements with less hassle — by using Solidity, OpenZeppelin, Truffle, MetaMask, and React — The “Moving From Full-Stack Developer To Web3 Pioneer” story provided a high-level overview to give full-stack developers a glimpse into the world of Web3 development. If you haven’t had a chance to review that article, consider taking a look since it also provides a good introduction to Web3. The end…

Time is money, especially with startups. Check out how easy it can be to launch your startup idea using Render Unified Cloud — Recently, I was thinking about the 1987 movie “Wall Street” and more specifically Michael Douglas’ character, Gordon Gekko. At the time, the 20-year-old version of me who saw the film the night it was released was focused on his college education. …

If you work with sensitive data, using a data privacy vault is a great way to protect that data without sacrificing data utility — Earlier in my career, our entire development team volunteered to help the reporting team validate some major updates with their service. None of us were excited about pausing our current priorities, but we all realized this was the right thing to do. After I ran my first report, it appeared…

Simplify your onboarding process — The promise of Web3 is enticing. Freedom from tech giants and giving power back to creators are lofty but worthy goals. Ethereum is the world’s largest and most-used public blockchain and has supported the growth of Web3 since it was launched in 2015. …

Creating purpose-driven microservices should always be a goal. Find out how Render Blueprints can offer a reproducible strategy. — Buzzwords aren’t something I expected when I started my career. In those days, most of the technology news arrived in paper-based weekly publications like InformationWeek and Network World. I remember thinking to myself, “Man, they are using these same words over and over again each week.”

Read on for an easy way to cut your app’s cord — Last year, my wife and I gained the first-time experience of building a brand-new home. The process was fun and exciting, but we also experienced the unexpected internet service interruptions that often accompany new home subdivisions. While these outages impacted my family’s ability to stream services, such as Amazon Prime…

During the height of the business intelligence (BI) craze earlier in my career, I worked with an internal reporting team to expose data for extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes that leveraged data structures inspired by Ralph Kimball. It was a new and exciting time in my life to understand…

There was a point in my life when music was the primary focus. After high school, I decided to join a few friends to give a career in music a shot. Since I have no shame, here is a photo of me during that period of my life:

Learn how the API-first design pattern is a carbon copy of the successful writing approach that John Vester has leveraged for several years — From a career perspective, the two things I appreciate the most are solving problems through technology and creating technical publications. The former often drives the latter: results presented in inspired-based publications are derived from a recent problem that I had successfully solved.