React Custom Hooks And When To Use Them
This blog was originally written by Detroit Labs Developer Pegah Eizadkhah, check out her blog. Pegah is a full stack developer at Detroit Labs with over three years of experience building scalable and maintainable applications. When she is not honing her coding
Json Web Tokens: A Few Gotchas
This blog was originally written by Detroit Labs Product Architect Janani Subbiah for her blog. Janani is a Product Architect at Detroit Labs with experience building back-end services and Android apps. She is currently part of the Labs Cloud team which
How We Structure Our Project Teams
At Detroit Labs, we work in delivery teams (also known as project teams). Each role has significant importance and brings its perspective, knowledge, and experience to the whole team and the client — and therefore to the project. As Detroit
Introduction to Spring Data R2DBC with Kotlin
This blog was written by Detroit Labs Developer Nelida Velazquez. Nelida is a developer who has a passion for tacos and code. She’s been a professional developer for 12 years working with a wide variety of languages and platforms going from
Tips to Help Overcome “Throwaway Work” Frustration
This blog was written by Detroit Labs Product Architect Janani Subbiah. Janani is a Product Architect at Detroit Labs with experience building back-end services and Android apps. She is currently part of the Labs Cloud team which empowers developers and our
Intro to MVVM in React (with MobX)
So you’re a seasoned React developer, but you’ve never applied the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) architectural pattern to your work. No worries! In this post, I’ll give you a basic introduction to what MVVM can look like in React (using MobX) to
Managing Database Migrations with Liquibase and Spring Boot
This blog was written by Detroit Labs Developer Nelida Velazquez. Nelida is a developer who has a passion for tacos and code. She’s been a professional developer for 12 years working with a wide variety of languages and platforms going from
Building Friendliness into Backend Services
What makes a back-end service (that exposes functionality in the form of RESTful APIs) fun to work with? Not just for the devs working on the service but also for everyone else using it, including but not limited to developers
Labs Live: QA at Labs with Katrina Ohlemacher and Jon Guest
On this episode of Labs Live, Dan and Tobi welcome Katrina and Jon, Quality Engineers at Detroit Labs. They discuss the role of Quality Assurance (QA) at Labs, the myth that the QA's job is to break things, and how
App Clips and User Acquisition Tactics from WWDC 2020
WWDC 2020 is in the books! Not only was it the first fully streamed event, but it was one of the best WWDC events we’ve seen. The launch of iOS 14 was exciting and brought with it both new and