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Things you need to know before starting with Open Commerce (formerly Reaction Commerce)
Introduction In a nutshell what Open Commerce is: A backend/GraphQL API An admin written with meteor An example frontend (which now is NextJS based) and you can either build on top or rewrite from scratch The Dockerized environments are custom NodeJS pre-built images of each module, but you can change them to be development environments [...]
How Staff Augmentation makes Digital Agencies more competitive
The tech industry is an ever changing and ever growing field. It has become a challenge for Digital Agencies to have the required IT knowledge for every possible project they are presented with, and undergoing the staff process is not always a viable option. To face this growing issue, subcontracting and outsourcing models have become [...]
Create a custom Mailchimp Open Commerce (formerly Reaction Commerce) payment method
Mailchimp Open Commerce (formerly Reaction Commerce) is primarily a headless GraphQL API with a great storefront and administrator interface that you can fork or use as a base for creating your own, that it’s great for customization given you the choice of how to build the entire store. Mailchimp Open Commerce came with great documentation [...]
Mailchimp Open Commerce (formerly Reaction Commerce): does the world really need another e-commerce platform?
It feels like the e-commerce arena is already flooded with too many options that aren't that different from each other. Shopify, WooCommerce, PrestaShop, Magento, Weebly, BigCommerce… The list goes on and on. So, considering that bloated landscape, is there a case to be made for yet another option? The answer is yes. After spending over [...]
Costa Rica as a IT Staff Augmentation Hub
If you’ve been thinking about investing in technical staff augmentation or nearshore software development services at your company, you may be wondering what your best option is. Should you turn to staff augmentation and nearshore software development companies in India? Eastern Europe? China? The answer may be closer to home than you think. Costa Rica [...]
Staff Allocation Tool in Airtable
Why should you build a staff allocation tool in Airtable? For the last 2 years, we have relied on Resource Guru to manage the Tetris of resourcing allocation for our staff of 58 employees. What we liked about Guru is that unlike other SaaS platforms out there, the simplicity to be focused specifically on the [...]
Gatsby Day LA 2020 Recap
The first Gatsby day 2020 was held at Convene in downtown Los Angeles, CA . This was our first time attending as members of weKnow Inc and it surely won’t be our last. We were was very interested in attending this Gatsby event because this tool is fairly new but is gaining a lot of [...]
PyCon Colombia 2020
For me, it is a great pleasure to go back home and spend time with the community of Python Colombia. One of the many reasons to come is because from experience as a co-organizer I know from first hand that the team puts a lot of effort in giving the best experience to all participants [...]
How every developer should learn how to learn Part 1
If you are an avid learner there is a chance you probably have heard of the famous course Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects from Coursera, taught by PhD Barbara Okley and PhD Terrence Sejnowski. I already took this course once and it’s second part Mindshift: Break Through [...]
PyCon Japan 2019 Recap
Coming to Japan for a technology conference has always been my dream since university. A lot of experience and learnings from cultural and technical aspects came from this. In this article, I will try to summarize my take aways as a developer and fan of the Japanese culture. Development sprints My experience started with the [...]
How to add support for multiple authors per page on GatsbyJS
While working on a Gatsby site, we have a requirement to provide support for multiple authors/contributors per page. We got this working by following the excellent Gatsby documentation Mapping node types. In this post, I will be describing the steps we followed. Adding gatsby-transformer-yaml dependency using npm Run this on your Gatsby project within the [...]
Drupal and Gatsby Live Preview
After attending Decoupled Days at NYC and watching Shane Thomas talking about Live Preview with Gatsby and Drupal and showing the Drupal Gatsby Live Preview module. I got excited about it and decided to try the module and invest time improving some features. I also decided to add this feature to weKnow contributed Boina projects [...]
Web Performance Basics—Also What Makes Gatsby Sites Fast?
At weKnow, we’re all about making the best user experiences for our clients. Whenever we get a project, we always try to ensure that the end product is a smooth UX that comes with a convenient UI and an aesthetically pleasing website layout. Our weapon of choice is, of course, Gatsby and to that end [...]
How to hire great remote workers
As we have mentioned before, weKnow works 100% remotely. Hiring remotely allows us to search globally for the best people to conform our team. This gives us an increase in our candidate pool for job openings while also reducing our overhead expenses. However, the process usually comes accompanied with a lot of questions and doubts [...]
How do we maintain a powerful team culture within our distributed team
Behind every successful company, there’s a strong team culture as its foundation. Team culture brings together the values, beliefs, behaviors and attitudes shared by a group of individuals who work together for a common goal. It is built overtime through the interaction of people who are constantly sharing their knowledge and support one another. A [...]