Assurant Labs Blog

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Test Kitchen: A Recipe for Good Tests
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Test Kitchen: A Recipe for Good Tests

A synopsis of the lecture given by Iris Schaffer at the 2021 React Summit

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What I Liked About Innovation Day 2020
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What I Liked About Innovation Day 2020

A software engineer's take on our most recent Hackathon-lite event

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Cache Expiration in Apollo GraphQL using React Hooks
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Cache Expiration in Apollo GraphQL using React Hooks

A tip for refreshing content periodically in a React Native app.

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A Mobile Developer's Case for Using GraphQL
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A Mobile Developer's Case for Using GraphQL

A mobile app developer's perspective on GraphQL.

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Getting Started With React Native
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Getting Started With React Native

An overview of what we use to ramp up new developers on React Native.

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Book Review: Shape Up
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Book Review: Shape Up

What we learned from reading “Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters” by Ryan Singer.

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Pokémon Go, Your Battery, and You
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Pokémon Go, Your Battery, and You

With Pokémon invading both our world and our phones, we look at the impact they have on the longevity of our pocket computers.

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Refactoring Rails controllers to service objects
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Refactoring Rails controllers to service objects

Today we will relive a recent refactor completed on our Ruby on Rails project which took some very old code and refactored it to allow for easier reuse.

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Pure Swift MVVM
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Pure Swift MVVM

Testing logic previously inside UIViewControllers by moving towards a pure Swift MVVM architecture.

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Making the new Assurant Labs site
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Making the new Assurant Labs site

An introduction to the our new website, and discussion of how it was built.

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