Longtime CTO, MIT Aero-Astro grad who pivoted to software development. Spent most of my career in Silicon Valley then moved to Paris for a couple years and am now back in the mountains of California near Lake Tahoe. Fractional CTO for a stealth startup and fractional professional ski instructor in the winter. Fractions may not add up to 100% due to rounding.
Available for fractional CTO work, technology due diligence, and advisory boards. Also enjoy mentoring technology managers.
Jan 2, 2023 · 3 min read · A common pattern I've seen in React/GraphQL applications is one where multiple queries are run at the top of a component (Here using useQuery from apollo-client) export const MyComponent = () => { const { data: data1, error: error1, loading: loadin...
Join discussionNov 3, 2022 · 7 min read · Having built the server side in part 1 we now turn our attention to authenticating a client. You can probably find many examples for react but fewer people write examples about react-native and I remember how much angst this caused me when I was buil...
Join discussionNov 3, 2022 · 6 min read · Background One of the first obstacles any new GraphQL developer faces is authentication. Since there are so many ways to authenticate a user it's not just an out of the box feature of a GraphQL server. It's not at all part of the GraphQL specificatio...
Join discussionOct 10, 2022 · 6 min read · There's an old adage in relational databases that there are only three important numbers: 0, 1 and n. When modeling a system in SQL we are always thinking in terms of the nature of the relationships between tables. Is it one-to-many, many-to-one, man...
Join discussionSep 28, 2022 · 6 min read · So far in this series all of our database accesses have been reads. Let's turn our attention to writing things to a database from GraphQL. A write in GraphQL terminology is referred to as a mutation. A mutation in GraphQL is defined by its name, its ...
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