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Get started with Hashicorp Vault. Hashicorp Vault — I have seen this… | by Phil Xu | Servian

Get started with Hashicorp Vault. Hashicorp Vault — I have seen this… | by Phil Xu | Servian

Phil Xu - servian.dev

HashiCorp Vault — This product is currently running in many big enterprise companies. I have seen a lot of people complain about the complexity of it and the pain of setting it up. I think this…

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Estimates Are Waste

Estimates Are Waste

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Estimates are waste, in that time spent estimating is often time that could have been spent producing something with business value. The first of the 5 laws of software estimates, this one is easy to demonstrate in the context of software developers. However, like so many things in software, it doesn't always hold when that context shifts.

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End-to-End Testing Without a UI. Finding appropriate tools for… | by Mannan Mackie | Expedia Group Technology | Feb, 2022 | Medium

End-to-End Testing Without a UI. Finding appropriate tools for… | by Mannan Mackie | Expedia Group Technology | Feb, 2022 | Medium

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Coming from a customer facing team that was responsible for over a dozen different applications, our team relied heavily on end-to-end testing to ensure that everything hung together correctly before…

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Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration.

Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration.

Kent C. Dodds - kentcdodds.com

Guillermo Rauch tweeted this a while back. Let's take a dive into what it means.

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Don't use Actors for concurrency

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Don't use actors for concurrency. Instead, use actors for state and use futures for concurrency. A common practice I've seen in scala code is to use actors for concurrency. This is encouraged by Akka and a lot of writing about Scala, the documentation of which is highly actor-centric. I assert …

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Introduction to the Actor Model for Concurrent Computation: Tech Talks @ AppNexus

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In this tech talk, John Murray, Senior Software Engineer at AppNexus, serves up an introduction to Actor Model principals and concepts and gives a look at ho...

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AWS reInvent 2021 Key Takeaways for Software Architects | by Ankur Kumar | Vedcraft | Medium

AWS reInvent 2021 Key Takeaways for Software Architects | by Ankur Kumar | Vedcraft | Medium

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AWS re:Invent 2021 (Nov 29 — Dec 3, 2021) has been the key highlight in the technology community particularly after the pandemic. As an in-person attendee, it was a great opportunity to learn…

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Terraform vs. Cloudformation vs. AWS CDK | by Pavle Djuric | Dec, 2021 | AWS Tip

Terraform vs. Cloudformation vs. AWS CDK | by Pavle Djuric | Dec, 2021 | AWS Tip

Pavle Djuric - awstip.com

Infrastructure as Code has become a hot topic in cloud computing lately. The idea is to document all of your cloud infrastructure in files, so that you can: If you are using any cloud provider for…

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Streamline: A super-efficient branching and CI strategy | by Joe Brady | Medium

Streamline: A super-efficient branching and CI strategy | by Joe Brady | Medium

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Streamline is a combined approach for branching, continuous integration, and (optionally) continuous deployment. It starts small to get development teams up and running as fast as possible, and can…

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How to scale a database without sharding

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Scaling a relational database can be a complex task, but it doesn’t need to be. A Distributed SQL database, such as CockroachDB, delivers completely automate...

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