Netlify offers free static website hosting with features like continuous deployment services, user-authentication, and form-handling. But static sites have limitations to perform server-side operations. These limitations have been addressed by Netlify by providing features to create Serverless Functions. In this blog, we'll create a simple application that displays a positive quote when we click the button. The quote displayed is returned from the API we'll create using netlify lambda function and deploy it. So let's get started. What is Serverless Computing? Serverless computing (or commonly referred to as serverless) is an execution model where cloud providers execute the piece of

React was released with an update to React's core (Reconciler) algorithm. This new algorithm is called Fiber. Before diving deep into what is Fiber and how it works, it is must to know the React's reconciler algorithm as Fiber is nothing but the re-implementation of this previous algorithm. You can refer to the reconciler algorithm on React Official doc here. React ReconciliationIt's an algorithm that React uses to diff one tree with another to find which parts need to be updated in the next update. E.g. whenever the component's props or state gets updated, whether to make an actual

When we are about to test a dynamic API request via Postman and realize that we need to pass a freshly generated signature in the headers, what do we generally do? For each request, we generate the signature using server-side code and copy-paste it in the headers. Sounds like a tedious job, doesn’t it? We faced a similar situation in our application where we had to pass a signature in the headers while testing an API. The signature was generated by encoding all the request parameters using the user's secret key. If any of the request parameters changed, we

Mamta Kukreja, a vibrant Kiprosher and a food lover at heart shares insights, regarding her work and career choices. Q: You have worked earlier as a freelancer and remotely, before joining Kiprosh. How do you feel about switching to a full-time job? Mamta: The opportunities to grow are very slim when you are working as a freelancer, as you do not have a team or mentor to guide you. In the case of a full-time job, an individual is a part of a team or project, where the mentoring relationship with the team leads, help the more experienced coder/associate

A decade back, remote retrospective used to happen via conference calls. But now trends are changing. Companies are becoming more and more remote-friendly. Also, because of technology, now the world is very well connected. When we work with remote teams, we feel it might be challenging to conduct a retrospective effectively. However, in today's time, it is much more comfortable because we have better video conferencing services and online tools such as the sticky-note like comments for the retrospective. Some companies work full-time remote and some provide partial remote, like our company Kiprosh. Hence, there is a good probability of

In Part 1 we learned some fundamentals of react-native-reanimated, its declarative syntax and its working under the hood by creating a simple Accordion. If you missed the first part, it will be better if you visit it and come back here as lots of concepts covered there will be referred here in this article. In this blog, we'll understand how to perform translation transformation by creating a shiny effect on the progress bar using react-native-reanimated. So, let's get started. Pre-requisites: Basic knowledge of react-native Basic knowledge of react-native-reanimated from the previous article Initialize project: Let's create our project by running:

Handling timezones in Rails applicationsIn the Rails application, we may have two different timezones. Application timezoneDatabase timezoneIn most of the cases database timezone is set to UTC, but application timezone could be different from database timezone. How to set application timezone?Set timezone at the application levelWe can set  config.time_zone configuration in config/application.rb file. ActiveRecord fetches UTC from the database and converts it to the timezone specified in config.time_zone. Refer this article in case you need help with setting up timezone at application level. 2. Set the timezone based on the one specified by

With the global outbreak of Coronavirus (Covid19), work from home or remote work has become a necessity more than the way of work. Organizations that have never practised working remotely are the ones facing huge challenges as this can severely impact the business. Rightly so because working remotely requires discipline, commitment, culture and mindset. It takes time and practice to fully understand and develop a mindset for remote work. Kiprosh being a remote-friendly organization since past many years, I can share some quick tips for both organizations and employees to help sail through this situation. Tips for the organization: 1.

Test Automation for regression test cases has become an important part of UAT. To draw the most benefits from automation suite, it is pertinent that test reports are easy to read. Test reports should provide complete details of automation suite execution. We have a selenium- based automation suite with TestNG framework for our project. We have used Extent Report for test execution status reporting in our automation. In this article, we will explain the steps to capture the details of test functions skipped in the report. BackgroundWe have designed automation suite to cover the user journeys in the application. There

Nowadays, writing test cases for every feature of your app has become inevitable! It ensures the app’s correctness, behaviour, and usability at any given moment. For unit & integration testing, Android supports multiple frameworks. Recently we were working on an Android application that was full of API calls. Most of them were nested or getting called at the same time. To achieve maximum code coverage, we decided to write test cases that include API calls. For obvious reasons, it's not a good practice to call the actual API for test cases. After exploring a lot of libraries, we found