Jordan Kasper

Software engineering isn't magic, and neither is engineering leadership. Too often organizations leave engineering teams to fend for themselves when it comes to basic tools, techniques, and practices. A good leader makes decisions, leads from the front...

With the adoption of ES6/2015 by nearly all browsers (with one notable exception), developers have access to the new class keyword and its construct for creating objects. If you are familiar with prototypical inheritance in JavaScript, don't worry, that...

This article was first posted on the Lunch Badger blog. Check them out if you're working with APIs in Node.js!
You've probably used it before: key authentication. The basic idea is simple, to authenticate your app or client with a given service you send a key to identify (and authorize) yourself. This is not intended for individual users necessarily, but rather...

This article was first posted on the Lunch Badger blog. Check them out if you're working with APIs in Node.js!
Separating your API code into microservices has far reaching benefits, but you probably already knew that, that's why you're here! So now that you've decided to shift to microservices you have some problems to solve. One of those is that splitting up...