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A Better Way To Run Integration Tests With Prisma and PostgresQL

Oct 1, 2021 6 min read

Prisma, the TypeScript ORM, has taken the development community by storm. It provides a fully type-safe interface with PostgresQL (and other SQL and no-SQL DBMS) which makes it a no-brainer for us to use at ludicrous. The Prisma team recently release...

A Better Way To Run Integration Tests With Prisma and PostgresQL

Setting up Dokku on Digital Ocean

Nov 18, 2020 2 min read

Dokku is a self-hosted alternative to Heroku. It is incredibly stable, supports most of the deployment types that Heroku does, and it's fully open source! Additionally, DigitalOcean makes it super simple to get started with Dokku. Provisioning The Se...

Doppler: The Docker of Environment Variables

Nov 13, 2020 3 min read

We have been working on a few projects and the one tool that we always set up first is Doppler. Doppler makes it easy to load your environment variables seamlessly into any context, which means you don't need to redefine the same environment variable...

Doppler: The Docker of Environment Variables

Using LetsEncrypt with Cloudflare

Nov 12, 2020 2 min read

Cloudflare and LetsEncrypt have helped make the web a significantly safer and more accessible place. However, they sometimes refuse to work well with each other. After some trial and error, we have come up with a way to use both together allowing you...

Hello World

Nov 11, 2020 1 min read

Hello world! We will try to publish our adventures in building ambitious applications and talk about what we use, how we use it, and how to set it up for yourself! Feel free to subscribe to get our product, engineering, and other updates.