Don’t Eliminate Human Work. Enable It.
Digital Product Development LeadershipCompanies should focus on enabling human work through technology rather than on eliminating human work.
Why the Usage of Instrumentation Within Monitoring Tools Should be Implemented in Your Next Web Project
Back-EndWhen designing a web application, a strategy that has often been used is to use a monitoring tool such as Grafana or Datadog. There...
Which .NET Design Pattern is Best For Your Next Project
Back-End DesignThere are several design patterns used these days in the .NET ecosystem. What are they? What are the benefits and drawbacks of each pattern?...
Coming soon: Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Fifth Edition
Android Ranch NewsThe last edition of Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide was released in October 2019. A lot has changed since then. To help...
The Importance of Project (Not Sprint!) Retrospectives
Project StrategyAs a product professional, it’s likely you’ve been a part of 10s if not 100s of sprint retrospectives (retros), but have you ever participated...
Top Five Things I Learned at SRECon22 Americas
Back-End Leveling UpAs a full-stack web developer, I attended SRECon to expand my thinking about the reliability and observability of the services I develop. Here are...
How will you address the talent shortage in your digital organization? (Hint: recruiting alone won’t get you there.)
TrainingThe Great Resignation and the challenge for digital organizations We have seen unprecedented movement in the US job market in the past six months,...
Building a Design System and Consuming it in Multiple Frameworks using Stencil.js
Design Front-EndLarge organizations with multiple software development departments may find themselves supporting multiple web frameworks across the organization. This can make it challenging to keep...
TalkBack Crash Course
AndroidTalkBack is Google's screen reader for Android devices. It's hard to understand accessibility issues without experiencing them yourself. Take 5 minutes to read this article,...
We’re Heading Back to the Ranch
TrainingThe pandemic forced us to reconsider what it meant for Big Nerd Ranch to be a training company and how we could best serve...
Learn the Lifecycle of a Web Component by Building a Custom Element
Front-EndDid you know you can create your own html tags? That is exactly what customElements.define() provides. In this post you will learn about the...
Mocking With Protocols in Swift
iOSLet's get right to it. You need to test your code, and you need to test it often. You do a lot of manual...
