JavaScript: from Zero to Hero

Using websockets is something, scaling a message pipeline to thousands of concurrent connections is something else.

I trust PubNub with what it does best, and use it as zerotoherojs.com ’s messaging pipeline.

With PubNub, I have one less problem to think about. PubNub

Jest is my unit-testing tool of choice.

Almost all unit testing suites (Mocha, Jasmine, etc.) are more or less the same.

The main advantage I guess, is that it integrates pretty well with React and Enzyme. Jest

I use AWS Workspaces for several things:

1. As a AWS-secured bastion host to connect to my infra.
2. As a "research machine" that I can use its upstream and downstream speed to do google searches, computations and downloads (only my 1Gbps office network beats their ~500mbps downlink speed; articles load in the blink of an eye; any download is almost instant).
3. An alternative development environment to test my tooling (how does that electron binary work in windows?)
4. A secure backup medium.
5. A mini-staging environment that also has great connectivity.
6. And an extension to my current Desktop.
7. And more…

Their desktop client, especially for Windows, work amazingly well. And they deliver what they promise. Amazon WorkSpaces

Crisp is a realtime chat widget that, unlike its competitors, does not demand your leg and kidney to deliver a decent service.

It works great for zerotoherojs.com and I recommend anyone if they have a similar need.

Even their free tier is more than enough for the majority of the use cases that you can think of. Crisp

I use loader.io for distributed load testing.

That especially matters when you have a cross-region load-balancer and you want to make sure how your app behaves on a global scale. Loader.io