Matt Merrill

3 posts
Introducing Web Blueprint - Our Practices for Web Development
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Introducing Web Blueprint - Our Practices for Web Development

This week we released a Github project called web-blueprint [https://github.com/rocketinsights/web-blueprint] that documents our practices and opinions on web development. If you're a prospective client or hire, our hope is that you'll learn a little bit more about what web engineering at Rocket is all about. [By the way, we're hiring!] I'm sure you've often found yourself asking "How do we usually...?" within your own team. I know we have. Six years ago, Rocket was five people in a small offi

Marketing Analytics with AWS and Power BI
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Marketing Analytics with AWS and Power BI

We recently completed a project with one of the largest affiliate marketing consulting firms in the US which turned out to be a great success for everyone involved.  We asked one of the lead consultants on the project, Jason Lombardo, to answer a few questions which we hope will demonstrate the vast territory that is covered by a modern Data Architect / Engineer and how it all eventually comes together into a simple and friendly solution for the end users. How did this project start out? Jason:

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A Journey Moving the Monolith to Microservices

2020 was a hell of a year:  A global pandemic, a fraught US election, and ... Microservices!  😬 Myself and a team of Rocket developers spent the entirety of 2020 at a client who wanted to move their Java based monolith into the 2020's with a spanking new Microservice / Single Page App (SPA) architecture.  Sound a little too good to be true? Here was the catch:   We needed to keep their old monolith running while we did it, and it is a big, complicated application. It's now 2021, and I can con

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