Josh Ghent

Hacking away on api's and front ends by day. Tinkering with servers and contributing to open source by night. I run the MidlandsJS meetup.

Birmingham, UK Joined on Mar 8, 2018 https://joshghent.com

Work

Founder / Director at Turbo Technologies Ltd

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AI, Python, Solutions Architecture, More C# and .NET Core API's and Microservices - all with AWS!

Typescript, AWS, C#, Python, Node, React, Angular, MySQL, Mongo

TurboAPI.dev - no code API and website performance monitoring

Happy to talk about speaking oppertunities at both conferences and meetups. Also available for part time contracts.

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Josh Ghent

Mar 16 '22

Be friendly and don't ignore Recruiters

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Josh Ghent

Feb 17 '22

Mistakes I made as a self-taught developer

#career #beginners #webdev #codenewbie

4 min read

Josh Ghent

Feb 15 '22

Building Collaboration with Remote Teams

3 min read

Josh Ghent

Feb 15 '22

Facing the Legacy Code Monster

3 min read

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Feb 15 '22

How to Ship Software Faster

3 min read

Josh Ghent

Jan 11 '22

Save $$$ by Caching Auth0 M2M Tokens

#aws #node #auth0 #dynamodb

4 min read

Josh Ghent

Jan 7 '22

How You Work

3 min read

Josh Ghent

Jan 7 '22

Continuous Delivery to ECS with Terraform

4 min read

Josh Ghent

Apr 7 '21

How to Run Sequelize Migrations in Azure Pipelines

#azure #sequelize #mysql #database

6 min read

Josh Ghent

Mar 29 '21

Super Fast React/Node App Testing with GitHub Actions

#actions #github #react #ci

3 min read

Josh Ghent

Mar 29 '21

SpellcheckCI

#github #actions #ci #blogging

2 min read

Josh Ghent

Feb 16 '21

Setting up LightHouse CI for React in GitHub Actions

#githubactions #lighthouseci #react #performance

3 min read

Josh Ghent

Feb 16 '21

So, You've Messed Up

4 min read

Josh Ghent

Feb 16 '21

Shutdown Routine

2 min read

Josh Ghent

Feb 16 '21

Resumé Red Flags

4 min read

Josh Ghent

Feb 16 '21

My Advice on Become a Software Developer

3 min read

Josh Ghent

Feb 16 '21

Redesigning my Site - Accessibility, Privacy and 100 PSI Scores

#redesign #gatsby #privacy #performance

3 min read

Josh Ghent

Jan 12 '21

Downloading your Favorite YouTube Playlist Automatically

1 min read

Josh Ghent

Jan 12 '21

Building Awesome Application Health Checks

5 min read

Josh Ghent

Aug 25 '20

ATS Resiliency

#resiliency #serverless #aws #dynamodb

8 min read

Josh Ghent

Aug 24 '20

Rebuilding a Monolith

#monolith #aws #express #crud

5 min read

Josh Ghent

Aug 24 '20

Re-architecting our PDF Generation

#pdf #puppeteer #aws #serverless

6 min read

Josh Ghent

Aug 24 '20

Preserving Links whilst Migrating Domains with S3

#s3 #aws #domains

3 min read

Josh Ghent

Jul 8 '20

Why Backwards Compatibility is Critical

7 min read

Josh Ghent

Jul 8 '20

Sharpening the Saw

5 min read

Josh Ghent

Jun 26 '20

Lightning Fast ZSH Performance

5 min read

Josh Ghent

Jun 26 '20

Personal Infrastructure

4 min read

Josh Ghent

Jun 26 '20

How to use Private GitHub Packages on TravisCI

2 min read

Josh Ghent

Nov 14 '19

How to Create a Pinned Gist Bot in 10 minutes with GitHub Actions

#pinnedgist #automation #githubactions #javascript

5 min read

Josh Ghent

Nov 13 '19

Managing Application Secrets for Terraform across Teams

4 min read

Josh Ghent

Nov 12 '19

Monitoring Git Leaks in Travis

1 min read

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Nov 12 '19

Signal vs Noise - Staying Up to Date

6 min read

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Nov 12 '19

Resiliency

7 min read

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Nov 12 '19

Gatsby or Bust!

3 min read

Josh Ghent

Nov 12 '19

A Guide to Leaving Your Job

4 min read

Josh Ghent

Feb 26 '19

Starting with Why as a Software Developer

#why #career #startwithwhy #serverless

3 min read

Josh Ghent

Jan 23 '19

Architecting the Next Generation of Communication

#api #pubnub #softwaredevelopment #aws

6 min read

Josh Ghent

Jan 15 '19

Resiliency By Design

#systemarchitecture #lambda #aws #resilience

4 min read

Josh Ghent

Dec 28 '18

How to Run a Successful Tech Meetup — even if you’re forgetful

#software #events #javascript #leicester

5 min read

Josh Ghent

Dec 28 '18

I don’t know what to say…

#opensource #javascript #softwaredevelopment #github

3 min read

Josh Ghent

Dec 28 '18

10 Things I wish I knew before giving my First Tech Talk

#lifelessons #publicspeaking #conference #node

7 min read

Josh Ghent

Dec 28 '18

Networking at Tech Meetups

#networking #friends #meetup #career

3 min read

Josh Ghent

Jun 15 '18

Lessons from Open Source

#opensource #softwaredevelopment #programming

4 min read

Josh Ghent

Jun 6 '18

The Art of Good Code Review

#startup #softwaredevelopment #codereview #programming

3 min read

Josh Ghent

Jun 6 '18

Principles of Performance

#webdev #performance #appdevelopment #webperf

7 min read

Josh Ghent

Mar 31 '18

Solve 90% of Google Pagespeed Insights Issues in 30 Minutes

#softwaredevelopment #google #performance #wordpress

5 min read

Josh Ghent

Mar 15 '18

Understanding PHP hatred

#php #designpatterns #programming #softwarearchitectur

10 min read

Josh Ghent

Mar 15 '18

Beginners Database Design Primer

#design #softwarearchitectur #database #programming

5 min read

Josh Ghent

Mar 15 '18

How to Attend Your First Programming Meetup

#programming #publicspeaking #meetup #networking

4 min read

Josh Ghent

Mar 15 '18

Bulletproof Node — Security Best Practises

#websecurity #programming #node #security

5 min read

Josh Ghent

Mar 15 '18

How to learn a programming language in record time

#learningtocode #learning #programming #learnprogramming

4 min read

Josh Ghent

Mar 15 '18

What programming language should I learn: or Why it doesn’t matter

#learn #learntocode #programming #coding

5 min read

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