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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.

Location Birmingham, UK Joined Joined on  Personal website https://joshghent.com github website twitter website

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Founder / Director at Turbo Technologies Ltd

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Why monoliths are a long term bad idea

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Mistakes I made as a self-taught developer
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Mistakes I made as a self-taught developer

#career #beginners #webdev #codenewbie
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Building Collaboration with Remote Teams
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Building Collaboration with Remote Teams

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Facing the Legacy Code Monster
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Facing the Legacy Code Monster

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How to Ship Software Faster
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How to Ship Software Faster

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Save $$$ by Caching Auth0 M2M Tokens
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Save $$$ by Caching Auth0 M2M Tokens

#aws #node #auth0 #dynamodb
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How You Work
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How You Work

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Continuous Delivery to ECS with Terraform
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Continuous Delivery to ECS with Terraform

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How to Run Sequelize Migrations in Azure Pipelines
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How to Run Sequelize Migrations in Azure Pipelines

#azure #sequelize #mysql #database
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Super Fast React/Node App Testing with GitHub Actions
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Super Fast React/Node App Testing with GitHub Actions

#actions #github #react #ci
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SpellcheckCI
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SpellcheckCI

#github #actions #ci #blogging
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Setting up LightHouse CI for React in GitHub Actions
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Setting up LightHouse CI for React in GitHub Actions

#githubactions #lighthouseci #react #performance
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So, You've Messed Up
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So, You've Messed Up

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Shutdown Routine
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Shutdown Routine

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Resumé Red Flags
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Resumé Red Flags

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My Advice on Become a Software Developer
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My Advice on Become a Software Developer

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Redesigning my Site - Accessibility, Privacy and 100 PSI Scores
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Redesigning my Site - Accessibility, Privacy and 100 PSI Scores

#redesign #gatsby #privacy #performance
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Downloading your Favorite YouTube Playlist Automatically
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Downloading your Favorite YouTube Playlist Automatically

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Building Awesome Application Health Checks
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Building Awesome Application Health Checks

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ATS Resiliency
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ATS Resiliency

#resiliency #serverless #aws #dynamodb
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Rebuilding a Monolith
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Rebuilding a Monolith

#monolith #aws #express #crud
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Re-architecting our PDF Generation
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Re-architecting our PDF Generation

#pdf #puppeteer #aws #serverless
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Preserving Links whilst Migrating Domains with S3
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Preserving Links whilst Migrating Domains with S3

#s3 #aws #domains
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Why Backwards Compatibility is Critical
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Why Backwards Compatibility is Critical

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Sharpening the Saw
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Sharpening the Saw

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Lightning Fast ZSH Performance
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Lightning Fast ZSH Performance

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Personal Infrastructure
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Personal Infrastructure

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How to use Private GitHub Packages on TravisCI
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How to use Private GitHub Packages on TravisCI

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

#pinnedgist #automation #githubactions #javascript
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Managing Application Secrets for Terraform across Teams
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Managing Application Secrets for Terraform across Teams

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Monitoring Git Leaks in Travis
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Monitoring Git Leaks in Travis

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Signal vs Noise - Staying Up to Date
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Signal vs Noise - Staying Up to Date

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Resiliency
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Resiliency

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Gatsby or Bust!
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Gatsby or Bust!

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A Guide to Leaving Your Job
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A Guide to Leaving Your Job

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Starting with Why as a Software Developer
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Starting with Why as a Software Developer

#why #career #startwithwhy #serverless
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Architecting the Next Generation of Communication
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Architecting the Next Generation of Communication

#api #pubnub #softwaredevelopment #aws
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Resiliency By Design
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Resiliency By Design

#systemarchitecture #lambda #aws #resilience
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How to Run a Successful Tech Meetup — even if you’re forgetful
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How to Run a Successful Tech Meetup — even if you’re forgetful

#software #events #javascript #leicester
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I don’t know what to say…
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I don’t know what to say…

#opensource #javascript #softwaredevelopment #github
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10 Things I wish I knew before giving my First Tech Talk
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10 Things I wish I knew before giving my First Tech Talk

#lifelessons #publicspeaking #conference #node
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Networking at Tech Meetups
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Networking at Tech Meetups

#networking #friends #meetup #career
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Lessons from Open Source
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Lessons from Open Source

#opensource #softwaredevelopment #programming
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The Art of Good Code Review
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The Art of Good Code Review

#startup #softwaredevelopment #codereview #programming
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Principles of Performance
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Principles of Performance

#webdev #performance #appdevelopment #webperf
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Solve 90% of Google Pagespeed Insights Issues in 30 Minutes
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Solve 90% of Google Pagespeed Insights Issues in 30 Minutes

#softwaredevelopment #google #performance #wordpress
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Understanding PHP hatred
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Understanding PHP hatred

#php #designpatterns #programming #softwarearchitectur
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Beginners Database Design Primer
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Beginners Database Design Primer

#design #softwarearchitectur #database #programming
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How to Attend Your First Programming Meetup
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How to Attend Your First Programming Meetup

#programming #publicspeaking #meetup #networking
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Bulletproof Node — Security Best Practises
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Bulletproof Node — Security Best Practises

#websecurity #programming #node #security
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How to learn a programming language in record time
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How to learn a programming language in record time

#learningtocode #learning #programming #learnprogramming
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What programming language should I learn: or Why it doesn’t matter
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What programming language should I learn: or Why it doesn’t matter

#learn #learntocode #programming #coding
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