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Alex Aitken

Technical and Engineering Leadership, Coaching, and Mentorship

Git Branching Strategies – What Works and What Doesn’t

March 12, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

I've been in several different companies now, and each of them has had different ideas on what the ideal branching method is. There is no …

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Improving Execution and Monitoring Execution

March 5, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

One of the things I ended up being tasked with as the "leader" of the team, was monitoring our progress. One of our KPIs was to improve our …

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Using React-Redux-Forms

February 26, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

The main reason you could say we moved to Redux was validation. We didn't want to add a whole lot of code to our page components to validate …

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Migrating to React-Redux

February 19, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

You don't need Redux Repeat after me, "I don't need Redux". Seriously, you probably don't. We didn't need Redux in our SPA until we started …

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Jest, React, and Mocking

February 12, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

Are you stuck with Proxyquire or Sinon? Before we moved to Jest, we used Karma with Mocha/Chai. These come with no built-in mocking …

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Starting with React

February 5, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

This isn't meant to be a guide on how-to React. I just want to share some of what I've learnt during my time working on a Single Page App …

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Sharing Knowledge/Tech Blogging

January 29, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

So it's 2018. A new year and a new start for some. I'm hoping it'll be a new start for me, so I'm starting a tech blog. Now, I already have …

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About the author

Alex is an AVP of Engineering currently working at Bukalapak. He is a leader in full-stack technologies. Read More…

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Recent Posts

  • Embrace Your Inner Engineer
  • Roundtable: What makes a great Engineer?
  • Leading in Uncertain Times
  • 1:1s – Don’t Follow my Advice
  • 6 Things to do when training Engineers to be Managers

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