January ‘23 was an exciting month. Not only did we raise a Series D but we launched our new version of the Jobber app which is now powered by React Native. This post is mainly coming from the eng...

When Face ID first came out I still preferred entering my password for app store purchases. It just felt more safe/secure. As time went on my trust built in Face ID and I use it wherever possible. ...

Finally got a bit of free time to migrate my blog again as Octopress is EOL. I’ve moved from Octopress hosted on AWS over to Jekyll w/ the Chirpy theme hosted on Github pages + Github actions. Ca...

We’ve been leveraging AWS AppSync more and more recently and it really bugged me that AWS doesn’t have a calculator for it. As you start using more features such as websockets (which they refer to ...

AWS recently released Ruby as a language for their lambda (serverless) platform. This is quite exciting as it’s one of my favourite languages to develop in. Of course, there’s always this whole ‘...

I’ve moved my blog to medium. Project updates are still here, but real time on my github.

We’ve been doing DevOps at AMA for about 4–5 years now. Some teams are farther along than others, however, we’re all pointed in the same direction. If you’re unsure as to what DevOps is take a quic...

*Update May 5th, 2018 — The second part is taking longer than expected due to complications/volatility with the authentication component of AWP Amplify. I’ll be writing a custom login/create scr...

At AMA we strive for a high quality user experience. Part of that user experience is making sure that our services are available for our members whenever they need them. If a service/site is down,...

Everyone has inherited a codebase that was in dire need of a re-write (at least a portion of it). If you haven’t, consider yourself one of the lucky few. I was at the local yegrb meetup a few night...