Resetting Database Between Spring Integration Tests
When tasked with having to write an integration test or a Spring Webflux test that uses a database, it can be cumbersome to have to reset the database between each test by using @DirtiesContext. Using...
View ArticleCreating Mocks For Unit Testing in Go
Unit testing is an important part of any project, and Go built its framework with a testing package; making unit testing part of the language. This testing framework is good for most scenarios, but...
View ArticleJavaScript Bundle Optimization – Polyfills
If you are lucky enough to only support a small subset of browsers (for example, you are targeting a controlled set of users), feel free to move along. However, if your website is open to the broader...
View ArticleSimple improvements to making decisions in teams
Software development teams need to make a lot of decisions. Functional requirements, non-functional requirements, user experience, API contracts, tech stack, architecture, database schemas, cloud...
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Getting Started with CSS Container Queries
For as long as I’ve been working full-time on the front-end, I’ve heard about the promise of container queries and their potential to solve the majority of our responsive web design needs. And, for as...
View ArticleAn Exploration in Rust: Musings From a Java/C++ Developer
Why Rust? It’s fast (runtime performance)It’s small (binary size)It’s safe (no memory leaks)It’s modern (build system, language features, etc) When Is It Worth It? Embedded systems (where it is...
View ArticleAWS RDS MYSQL Playground
Do you need a reliable database platform to hammer out some new application ideas? Or, maybe you’d like to learn MYSQL in a disposable environment? This Hashicorp Terraform MYSQL RDS Module will build...
View ArticleKafka & Kubernetes: Scaling Consumers
Kafka and Kubernetes (K8s) are a great match. Kafka has knobs to optimize throughput and Kubernetes scales to multiply that throughput. On the consumer side, there are a few ways to improve...
View ArticleHow to get your pull requests approved more quickly
TL;DR The fewer reviews necessary, the quicker your PR gets approved. Code reviews serve an essential function on any software codebase. Done right, they help ensure correctness, reliability, and...
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Snowflake CI/CD using Jenkins and Schemachange
CI/CD and Management of Data Warehouses can be a serious challenge. In this blog you will learn how to setup CI/CD for Snowflake using Schemachange, Github, and Jenkins. For access to the code check...
View ArticleInfrastructure as Code – The Wrong Way
You are probably familiar with the term “infrastructure as code”. It’s a great concept, and it’s gaining steam in the industry. Unfortunately, just as we had a lot to learn about how to write clean...
View ArticleFeature Flags in Terraform
Feature flagging any code can be useful to developers but many don’t know how to or even that you can do it in Terraform. Some benefits of Feature Flagging your code You can enable different features...
View ArticleTacos and Steak, an Istio story
This post originally appear on Marty Henderson’s personal blog A brief history In the before times of 2017, Varun Talwar and Louis Ryan sat under a forgotten waterfall at the edge of the world and...
View ArticleGitpod and Hringvegurinn
Iceland Ever seen an advertisement for visiting Iceland? Have you noticed that they all mention Hrinvegurinn or the Ring Road, as a good tour? (If you haven’t seen a tour ad for Iceland, Steindi Jr...
View ArticleTesting a Quarkus Kafka Application
Quarkus, a “Kubernetes Native Java stack”, enables lighter Java applications with faster startup times. In a recent post, I talked about scaling Kafka consumers in Kubernetes. Quarkus applications fit...
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Rockstar Development
This originally appeared on Marty Henderson’s personal blog Or, how to use Gitpod and GitLab so that no one else has to care about your questionable coding language choices. A true rockstar has a good...
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Planning an Apache Airflow Deployment
This is part one of a five-part series addressing Airflow at an enterprise scale. I will update these with links as they are published. Airflow: Planning a Deployment Apache Airflow is a platform for...
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Airflow + Helm: Simple Airflow Deployment
This is part two of a five-part series addressing Airflow at an enterprise scale. I will update these with links as they are published. Airflow: Planning a DeploymentAirflow + Helm: Simple Airflow...
View ArticleIntroduction to Pydantic
I’ve been using the Pydantic library in my Python projects lately and it’s pretty great. At first glance, it seems very similar to Python 3’s built-in dataclass decorator but when you see it supports...
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More Charts: Adding TLS to Airflow
In this post, we will be adding TLS to Airflow on Azure Kubernetes Service. This is part three of a five-part series addressing Airflow at an enterprise scale. I will update these with links as they...
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