Articles tagged "Software & web development"

Learning to Code: How to Think Like a Programmer

When first learning to code, it’s easy to feel like a deer in the headlights; everything is unfamiliar and new. It's like learning to play a new instrument or a foreign language—what is this and what the heck am I doing? I completely understand.

Automation for web development

Web development is full of short scripts to help you get more done, faster. This set of Zaps will speed up your web development and let you focus on more important parts of building web and mobile applications.

What rocket engineering can teach us about software engineering—and work in general

Our first Zapier company retreat of 2020 was in Orlando, which meant I got to spend my free day at the Kennedy Space Center.

How to Use GitHub

GitHub is an online service that you can use to host the code for your projects and carefully control additions, changes, and adjustments.

How to Push to GitLab

To get started with GitLab, you'll need to create a repository and push code to it. Here's how to push to GitLab. How to Create a Project (Repository) in GitLab Because of their larger potential in GitLab, repositories are called projects.

10 Developer Tools to Increase Your Productivity

Writing code is only one part of the developer experience. One minute you get swamped with web development tasks and the next you’re in a team meeting.

Why you should hire early-career engineers

Early-career engineers, sometimes called "L1s," will have little to no experience, but they can be a more productive addition to your team than a seasoned engineer. Here's why.

The 10 Best CMS Platforms

A content management system (CMS) is web-based software that allows you to build content-oriented websites, like blogs, eCommerce websites, or portfolios. A CMS is a must-have if you're regularly adding content to your website.

How Zapier helped this founder keep engineers focused on product development

In the early years of my startup my co-founder and I faced a challenge familiar to many young tech companies: Our engineering resources were spread thin, with competing priorities and an ever-changing roadmap. Automation helped us

The architecture behind Zapier's Zap History pages

Whenever a Zapier user wants to review what Zaps have run in their account, they visit their Zap History. Built on Next.js, the architecture that supports the Zap History pages, surfaces individual information about millions of Zap runs to our users.