React-i18next is an incredible library for internationalizing your React application with a straight forward and easy-to-use interface. With built-in language detectors that can operate based off cookies and browser headers, you can easily customize your website for your visitors before any interaction with the page. However, when you set or…

Google made a stir amongst the developer community in 2018 when they dramatically changed the pricing scheme for Google Maps. In exchange for a $200 USD monthly credit, users of the Google Maps API now had to deal with the following price schedule:

If you are using an EC2 instance with attached disks (NVMe, SSD, HDD) or want to get more out of your EBS disks, you may want to use RAID. …

OpenMapTiles is a great project by the team over at maptiler.com that defines and provides a set of tools for generating and serving maps. Their main repository comes with an easy-to-use set of scripts and Docker configurations that lets you quickly download and process map data into a PostgreSQL database…

Improving developer experience and decreasing our image payloads by 93% As part of user experience optimization here at Wowa, we implemented responsive images on our platform, fine-tuning image sizes to save 93% on total bandwidth spent on image payloads on our homepage. In order to deliver these images, we had…

In today’s mobile-first world, bandwith is precious and load-times are the difference between a bounce and a interested visitor. While we tend to focus on optimizing our bundle sizes, images are another untapped resource for data-savings. As a comparison, visitors to our Wowa homepage download 8.5MB …

If you’re like me, you’re running your RDS databases with full public access to port 5432 because you have to debug and make queries on the database. But what do Transunion, Sony, and now even Desjardins have in common? Data breaches. …

If you have a Progressive Web Application (PWA) built on React, Vue.js, Angular, or any of the many Javascript-based frameworks, you might know how hard it is to get your site SEO-friendly. …