Clay Carpenter, Author at Made by Munsters

Clay graduated from North Carolina State University with a bachelor's degree in history, with a minor in Computer Science. He is currently pursuing a masters in Computer Science at Georgia Tech.

He has worked for a wide variety of companies, from small and medium-sized startups to industry giants like McKesson and GSK. Nearly two decades of experience in the field has been spent developing production systems and ensuring they're available and responsive for clients.

Recent posts

Introducing Angular Waiting Button

Clay Carpenter • Jan. 12, 2018 • Development

Ten years on from the introduction of AJAX, the web is now full of asynchronous operations. AJAX itself made those async requests feasible, while Promises have been around for a while now to make handling async responses simple. When working with single-page architecture (SPA) web apps, everything… Read more

Simulating Poor Network Conditions with Toxiproxy

Clay Carpenter • Jan. 12, 2018 • Development

Naturally, developers build apps in environments where network connectivity isn’t an issue — frequently the connections stay local to the development environment. That’s fine for being efficient while building out code, but it can also lead to a false confidence about the performance of the code in real-world situations. Read more

Managing Environment Variables with Global and dotenv Gems

Clay Carpenter • Jan. 12, 2018 • Development

At Made by Munsters, our Rails projects use dotenv to load environment variables for development and test Rails servers. dotenv reads a file (by default, the appropriately named .env) that contains a simple list of name=value pairs and loads each as… Read more

Thoughts After Building Our First Ionic 2 App

Clay Carpenter • Jan. 12, 2018 • Development

One of the most impressive aspects of developing the Ionic 2 app was just how mature and stable both Ionic 2 and Angular 2 were. It came as a surprise; I had expected to run into far more difficulty during this project. Read more