Category: Engineering
An AWS Step Function Use Case: Serverless ETL
September 28, 2020 by Mark Panahi
With batching and looping techniques, FloQast used AWS Step Functions as a serverless ETL tool while respecting its limits on...
Implementing a Micro-Frontend Architecture With React
August 31, 2020 by J.C. Yamokoski
At FloQast, one of our main goals is to enable high-performance teams. This article will describe one method we are...
Postman: Developing and Testing APIs Without a Client
August 17, 2020 by Ashton Hsu
This article will walk through example HTTP requests in a back-end development environment using some useful Postman features. Postman is...
Styled Components in React: Moving away from SCSS
August 3, 2020 by Stephanie Chiu
CSS Specificity Wars
As we continue to migrate our monolithic system into a microservices-based architecture and navigate through the micro frontend...
Attaching Lambdas to an Existing ALB With Terraform
July 20, 2020 by Matthew Karmazyn
At FloQast, we use AWS Lambda Functions behind an Application Load Balancer as our primary API platform. Each of our...
Grafana Dashboards + AWS CloudWatch Metrics
June 22, 2020 by Kyle Kodani
In this article, my goal is to guide you through the creation of a simple Grafana graph using AWS CloudWatch...
AWS X-Ray with Lambda: Distributed Tracing for the Win
June 10, 2020 by Jessica Perina
AWS X-Ray with Lambda is the easiest way to get started with tracing a simple function or distributed services. Why?...
Pitch Technical Change like a Software Architect – The Easy Way
May 26, 2020 by Carlos Avila
It's happened to just about every engineer I know.
You're working on one of your millions of unfinished weekend side projects...
MongoDB Query Performance: Understanding the Query Planner & Advanced Index Types
May 11, 2020 by Mark Thomas
There are stages to every engineer’s relationship with a database. They might go like this:
shock: “what is this new...
Using Slack to auto-deploy templatized software projects
April 28, 2020 by Greg Fogelberg
Here at FloQast, we use a combination of GitHub, Jenkins, Terraform, and AWS for maintaining, deploying, building, and housing our...