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Every company wants to deliver the best product to its customers, and this theme is woven into the product development process at all successful companies. Product development in the SaaS domain comes with a unique set of software developer problems. Software developer problems can range from poorly defined customer expectations to a greater need for complexity and rapid technological advancement. These problems are all part of software development being a highly dynamic and complex process.

Rails defaults to minitest, but much of the community has adopted RSpec—which is right for you? In this article, William Kennedy compares RSpec and Minitest in a new Rails app.

React has gained popularity recently and is now among the most cherished frontend frameworks ever. React has consistently placed in the top two positions in the State of JS survey for the past five years, which serves as evidence. Additionally, this indicates that more developers than ever are creating projects in React. The React library benefits from the use of boilerplates, which are lines of code that are neutral by design and serve as a natural starting point when developing with any technology.

A memory leak is an unintentional, uncontrolled, and unending increase in memory usage. No matter how small, eventually, a leak will cause your process to run out of memory and crash. Even if you periodically restart your app to avoid this crash (no judgment, I've done that!), you still suffer the performance implications of a memory leak.

As government agencies and organizations look to modernize their technology stacks to keep up with changes in the workforce, aging solutions, and closing contracts, they’ll all set out with a similar process: submit an RFP, review submissions, and choose a vendor. Seems simple enough. But what government CIOs often don’t realize is that requiring proven, specific use cases may be limiting what their new (and likely expensive) technology investment can do for their organization.

There’s a function called Enum.map in Elixir that works on multiple collection types, but it's not without its issues. In this post, I will introduce you to a concept from functional programming called a functor. We’ll make a Functor protocol with a function called fmap that will aspire to be a better version of Enum.map. Note: The article is inspired by the Witchcraft library, which we covered in one of our previous posts. But first: what's the problem with Enum.map exactly?