Field notes, primers, and case-tested patterns from Rangle on agentic systems, design systems, frontend, and AI strategy.
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This week Mark Kingston, Rangle's Vice President of Operations, set up shop in the centre of mobile innovation: Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. Truly the launching ground for the coolest high-profile gadgets, MWC also gathers industry heavyweights eager to talk about the future of mobile. Smart cities was the prevailing theme at this year's conference. Mark shares some of the key takeaways from #MWC17.
With Ranglers setting up shop at Mobile World Congress this week in Barcelona, it seems like a fitting opportunity to weigh in on a few questions we commonly hear: should brands develop mobile apps in Native code or a JavaScript framework and what implications does this have on business.
Modernize Your Stack
A key to successful projects is incorporating learnings to drive decisions. To obtain learnings from live users, teams must deliver features that collect and analyze behaviour. This post discusses writing user stories that involve analytics.
Operating Model
This is a rather meaty post that will hopefully shed some light on concepts that have been misunderstood and under-utilized, in the general community. The goal of this post is to explore the concepts behind map and reduce, and to illustrate how they can simplify algorithms for dealing with arrays of data.
Frontend Development
Prior to the holidays, my colleague Nick wrote an awesome post on getting better at functional programming by stepping out of your comfort zone, and burning the boats upon the shores of strange new languages. If you did find yourself conquering the lands of Erlang, Elm, Haskell, or the isles of Akka/Scala, my hat's off to you.
Frontend Development
As Angular 1 web applications continue to grow, scaling the UI and adding increasingly complex features tends to get challenging quickly. Depending on the use case and amount of information required to be processed, this can lead to performance degradation, troubles with interactivity, rendering slowdowns and race conditions if those complexities aren't handled properly (and sometimes even if they are).
Modernize Your Stack
Good analytics are no longer just a nice-to-have. Your digital analytics are one of your competitive imperatives. Companies that win, will succeed through data driven insights and increasingly through automated intelligent systems.
Cybersecurity got ever more attention in 2016 as all industries realized how important it is to have strong protection of their computer systems. At the top of the list of security issues are passwords. Many people believe it is the weakest link in internet security (some believe it is permanently broken).
As a JavaScript developer, you may find it disorienting when you first start learning about yet another large subject matter that is Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (GA/GTM). There are many GA/GTM articles and examples that paint a confusing or outdated picture for single page and mobile apps. However, fear not. This post introduces GA/GTM to seasoned JavaScript developers and suggests the best practices we've adopted here at Rangle. By following our tips, you'll be able to drive better value for clients and produce actionable insights from your application's data.
Frontend Development
This post currently reflects an earlier version of Angular, and may not be up to date or reflect the current release.
Frontend Development
Scrum, one of the most effective contemporary software development processes, is designed to be flexible but new practitioners often try to adapt and change things too quickly. The urge to customize Scrum based on old habits or outdated thinking typically leads to unsuccessful software releases - or worse, nothing at all.
Build Engineering Capability
If you have built a web app in the past few years, you've probably had to deal with touch events. In many cases this was limited to handling tap and removing that pesky 300ms delay. However with touch devices becoming more powerful, we now have to implement more complex gestures— gestures that work for both mouse and touch.
Frontend Cloud