A few days ago I read a tweet by the fabulous Emma Bostian that got me thinking about my 20+ year journey in web development. This statement rings very true. To take it a step further, that list of things you are expected to know is actually an everchanging…

When developing an app, you may run into a case where you need to wait for a long running process to complete. A common pattern for dealing with such a case is polling. In this pattern data is repeatedly requested from a source, such an an API, at intervals. …