This is the second part to a collection of notes and details, think of this as the cliff notes of the GraphQL Spec. Onward to section 3 of the spec… The GraphQL type system is described in section 3 of the specification. Continue reading →

No cruft, let’s just start. What I’ve done is take those docs and add some specific details and information for this happy path. It includes additional references for the steps I took, and specifically what I’m running this on for this particular tutorial. As noted below, there is a section where this deviates from those... Continue reading →

I coded up some JavaScript to generate some data for a table recently and it seemed relatively useful, so here it is ready to use as you may. (The complete js file is below the description of the individual code segments below). This file simple data generation is something I put together to create a... Continue reading →

Yesterday we finally went full GA (Generally Available) with DataStax Astra. For the quick TLDR think of it as Apache Cassandra that you can spin up as a service and use in about a minute. I, as I wrote about some months ago, joined the engineering team to help build out the system! I quickly... Continue reading →

Over the years I’ve used Express.js many times as a quick getting started example app. Since I often reference it I wanted to provide a short post that shows exactly what I do 99.9% of the time to start one of these quick Express.js reference apps. I’ve detailed in this post how to get started... Continue reading →