Nick Coughlin
Founder @CascadiaCode, makers of @BidBear. Nick specializes in serverless AWS based architecture with Javascript/React based front end.
Nick has a degree in Economics from Colorado College and was previously a marketing manager. He lives in Eugene, Oregon with his wife and daughter.
Technology Toolbox
Languages
TypeScript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that adds optional static types to the language.
JavaScript
JavaScript is a lightweight, interpreted programming language with first-class functions that is known for its role in web development. It is an essential part of web applications and allows for interactive elements.
Python
Python is a high-level, interpreted, general-purpose programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with its use of significant whitespace.
SQL
SQL (Structured Query Language) is a standard programming language that is used to manage relational databases and perform various operations on the data in them.
Markdown
Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain-text formatting syntax that can be converted into HTML or other formats. It's designed to be easy to write and read with bare text.
YAML
YAML is a human-readable data serialization standard that can be used in conjunction with all programming languages and is often used for writing configuration files.
Front End
Docker
Docker is a platform for developers and sysadmins to develop, deploy, and run applications with containers. The use of Linux containers to deploy applications is called containerization.
React
React is a declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It lets you compose complex UIs from small and isolated pieces of code called “components”.
Redux
Redux is a predictable state container for JavaScript apps. It helps you write applications that behave consistently, run in different environments (client, server, and native), and are easy to test.
Vite
Vite is a modern, fast front-end build tool that significantly improves the frontend development experience. It features a dev server with Hot Module Replacement (HMR) and a build command that bundles your code with Rollup, which is configured to output highly optimized static assets for production.
Next
Next.js is an open-source React front-end development web framework that enables functionality such as server-side rendering and generating static websites for React based web applications.
Docusaurus
Docusaurus is a project for building, deploying, and maintaining open source project websites easily. It's optimized for documentation and can leverage the power of Markdown and React to enable seamless documentation sites with built-in search capabilities.
Gatsby
Gatsby is a React-based open source framework for creating websites and apps. It allows developers to build high-performance websites and apps that are fast to load, using data from various sources.
Strapi
Strapi is an open-source headless CMS designed to build powerful APIs quickly. It allows developers to design APIs and manage content without hassle.
GraphQL
GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for executing those queries by using a type system you define for your data. It provides a more efficient, powerful and flexible alternative to REST.
Stripe
Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size use the company's software to accept payments and manage their businesses online.
Sentry
Sentry is an open-source error tracking tool that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. The tool streamlines the error resolution process and aggregates errors across different programming languages.
D3
D3.js is a JavaScript library for producing dynamic, interactive data visualizations in web browsers. It uses HTML, SVG, and CSS to bring data to life through a data-driven approach to DOM manipulation.
React-Table
React Table is a lightweight, flexible, and extensible data grid library for React. It's not opinionated with its design, so you can create and style your own table experience.
React-Flow
React Flow is a highly customizable library for building interactive node-based editors, diagrams, and flow charts. It provides a set of tools that make it easy to drag, drop, and connect nodes on a canvas.
TipTap
TipTap is a headless, framework-agnostic text editor capable of handling a variety of complex text editing needs. It is built on top of ProseMirror and is extendable and customizable to fit different editing requirements.
React-Router
React Router is a standard library for routing in React. It enables the navigation among views of various components in a React Application, allows changing the browser URL, and keeps UI in sync with the URL.
OAuth2
OAuth 2.0 is an authorization framework that enables applications to obtain limited access to user accounts on an HTTP service, such as Facebook, GitHub, and Google.
Jest
Jest is a JavaScript test runner and framework with a focus on simplicity. It is the most popular JavaScript test runner, often used in tandem with additional assertion libraries like React Testing Library.
React Testing Library
React Testing Library is a simple and complete testing library that encourages good testing practices. It provides light utility functions on top of DOM testing libraries, so you can test the output of your React components in a way that resembles the way your components are used.
Back End
API Gateway
Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. It acts as a front door for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from your back-end services.
Lambda
AWS Lambda is a compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. Lambda executes your code only when needed and scales automatically, from a few requests per day to thousands per second.
EC2
Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) provides scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services cloud. Using EC2, you can launch virtual servers, manage storage, and scale applications.
Athena
Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. It is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.
Glue
AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it simple and cost-effective to categorize your data, clean it, enrich it, and move it reliably between various data stores.
Step Functions
AWS Step Functions is a service that lets you coordinate multiple AWS services into serverless workflows so you can build and update apps quickly. It provides a reliable way to orchestrate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows.
SQS
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. SQS eliminates the complexity and overhead associated with managing and operating message oriented middleware.
SageMaker
Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly. SageMaker removes the heavy lifting from each step of the machine learning process.
Dynamo DB
Amazon DynamoDB is a fast and flexible NoSQL database service for all applications that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. It is a fully managed database and supports both document and key-value store models.
S3
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics.
Cognito
Amazon Cognito provides authentication, authorization, and user management for your web and mobile apps. Users can sign in directly with a username and password, or through a third party such as Facebook, Amazon, or Google.
CodePipeline
AWS CodePipeline is a continuous integration and continuous delivery service for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates. It automates the build, test, and deploy phases of your release process, enabling you to rapidly release new features.
ECR
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully-managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images.
CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers. CloudWatch provides data and actionable insights to monitor applications, understand and respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health.
CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly environment.
Route 53
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost-effective way to route end users to Internet applications.
IAM
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) allows you to manage users and user permissions in AWS. It helps you securely control access to AWS resources for your users.
EventBridge
Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus service that makes it easy to connect applications together using data from your own applications, integrated SaaS applications, and AWS services. EventBridge helps facilitate event-driven architectures by routing events between AWS services, integrated SaaS applications, and your own applications.
Express
Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features to develop web and mobile applications. It facilitates the rapid development of Node based Web applications.
MongoDB
MongoDB is a NoSQL database that uses a document-oriented data model and supports a flexible schema. It's designed to handle large amounts of data and complex queries at high speed.
Node
Node.js is a runtime environment that allows you to run JavaScript on the server side. It's built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine and is used for developing scalable network applications.
Pandas
Pandas is a fast, powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use open-source data analysis and data manipulation library built on top of the Python programming language.