Relaunching Sparkbox.com
Learn how Sparkbox avoided the “cobbler’s children have no shoes” problem with updates to its website and the Foundry.
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Performing a Web Accessibility Audit
We all know accessibility is critical, but where to start? An audit will point you in the right direction.
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Incremental Static Regeneration with Next.js Combines Performance with Accuracy
Learn along with the Sparkbox team as we address the twin challenges of performance and accuracy for our own blog, The Foundry.
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Building Reliable Software Delivery Pipelines for Your Team: A Comparison of Leading CI/CD Tools
If you are looking to find bugs faster in the delivery pipeline, then CI/CD should be part of your process to automate code integration, testing, and deployment. But how do you know which tool is right for you? Let’s compare some common CI/CD tools: Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, and AWS Pipeline.
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Rendering Markdown in Contentful Rich Text
As we are migrating The Foundry’s CMS to Contentful, it doesn’t come without challenges to ensure that we are able to have all the styles currently used. Learn how we are balancing different solutions to do just that like rendering markdown in the rich text editor.
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Yes, You Can Integrate AI into Your Legacy Site
Artificial intelligence is a very hot topic right now. But how can you integrate it into your existing website? Learn how we partnered with an eLearning organization to do just that.
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Building an MVP Slack App with the Forecast API
While keeping an MVP mindset, a team of Sparkbox developers built a Slack app that interfaces with the Forecast API in a few weeks. Once the basic requirements were met, beta testing allowed our team to make needed adjustments and better technical decisions.
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Building Your React Native Debugging Toolbox
When developing mobile apps with React Native, there are not as many developer tools to choose from so debugging can be a challenge. But using the right tools like Element Inspector, React Development Tools, and the Chrome Developer Tools Debugger can help.
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Identifying the Right Development Team at the Right Time
No two codebases have the same needs from a development team, so why should we expect our developers to fit in a one-size-fits-all model? With Sparkbox’s right team at the right time approach, we partner with teams to provide specialized expertise for each challenge as it arises.
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Tech Debt
Tech debt is a byproduct of all tech projects, but it is especially common in an MVP project. Even though there are a lot of causes of tech debt, it really isn’t always a bad thing—and ultimately it is part of the process for managing constraints now and in the future.
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