There is a time in everyone’s career when they wonder if they should stay in their current role or move to a new role or company. Here are some of the things I consider when giving advice or making the decision for myself. First, if you are in a toxic or abusive or down-right bad environment, …

If you like to use npx to execute commands and would like to reference environment variables in your commands the solution is very simple. Adding the -c / --call flag to your npx command will execute the command as if it were an npm run command, giving access to all environment variables currently …

I recently needed to perform a major version upgrade to several AWS Aurora instances, however ran into issues when trying to create a new instance by restoring from a snapshot. I won’t go into how to perform the upgrade, that’s available in the AWS docs here: Upgrading AWS Aurora DB …