All Episodes
What is an app?
First in our EC Methodology Series... what is an app? Let's do a rough breakdown of the different things people mean when they talk about building an "app."
Design something.
Next in our EC Methodology Series... design something! It might sound obvious, but before you start building something you should probably design it first. Here we bre...
Get a domain.
Next in our EC Methodology Series... get a domain! It’s important. It’s how different parts of your system will communicate with each other, even if you’re building a ...
Let's talk about growth.
Next in our EC Methodology Series... growth! Growth potential, or “scalability” is important to think through. You don’t want to design a system for 5 million users, i...
Built on what?
Next in our EC Methodology Series... infrastructure! One of the things you’ll need to know before you get going is “what are the capabilities of the infrastructure I’l...
At your services
Next in our EC Methodology Series... services! Last time we talked about infrastructure. Today we’ll cover some key services we use to build our products and make them...
Where's the conductor?
Last time we talked about services you might need for your application. Today we’ll talk about coordinating all of those services!
Don't forget to lock up.
There are always going to be security concerns, but you can do your best to identify and address the obvious ones early, and keep a close eye on them. In this episode ...
Wait. Am I a user?
You might be building this app for someone else to use, but most apps need to be managed, so you’ll probably need an admin account and interface too. We find that it’s...
Deliver. Continuously.
You don’t want to get stuck manually deploying the latest versions of your app. That path leads to bottlenecks and uncertainty. You need to make sure features get deli...
We need to talk...
Let's talk about communicating with your users. Sometimes it’s about confirming an email address, and other times it’s about notifying them about something, or sending...