Aphinya is a skilled tech writer with field experience in software development, agile, and fullstack JavaScript. She is a dev advocate and community builder, helping others navigate their dev journey.
There is a wide range in the skill of developers out there — and seniority often doesn’t determine one's caliber. So what makes some superior to their peers? What is it that separates them from the pack and sea of mediocrity? Having five, ten or even fifteen years...
Yes. There is no doubt that relational databases have an industry monopoly over businesses. Everywhere you go, at some point in your career, you will encounter one, whether you like it or not. Personally, I have a love-hate relationship with relational databases. When they are structured properly and abstracted just...
A developer’s perspective on why marketing campaigns fail
Front end development is a weird, special little space in programming. To be a truly effective and efficient front end engineer, there needs to be a balanced relationship between the creative and analytic sides of the brain. Visual arts creativity and imagination are skills that are often lost when we...
Over the past few days, I’ve been thinking about noSQL data structures. The thing with SQL is that it’s very codified, with clear expectations and standardized best practices. In contrast, the fluid nature of noSQL makes it hard to put your finger on exactly what you’re supposed...
In Angular, if data is the thing that makes an application come to life, then directives are the thing that makes actions, reactions, and interactions possible. In the simplest terms, a directive is like a template function that you can use to make things happen. They may take arguments, do...
