3 days agoRelease Management: Is Your Product Ready for Success?You never get a second chance to make a first impression. So how do you make sure it’s a good one? This matter is constantly in the mind of release managers and product owners, because they know that once a product is set loose into the world all bets are…Dev Ops7 min readDev Ops7 min read
5 days agoEase Into Ruby 3’s Static Typing Powers With RBS, TypeProf and SteepI started studying Ruby in 2012. I’m not quite a dinosaur, because when I began my journey, there were already experienced Rubyists out there. Nonetheless, this was a time when Ruby was a proudly dynamic language and Rails 3 was all the rage. Don’t get me wrong, at present, Ruby…Ruby12 min readRuby12 min read
Jan 263 Pillars to Maximizing Security Potential in Complex Cloud EnvironmentsAs organizational dependence on the cloud grows, so do the challenges of implementing and managing security strategies. Strategies that may have been effective for traditional, on-premise networks are generally inadequate for cloud infrastructure. This is because cloud networks are becoming increasingly complex: organizations these days rarely rely on just one…Dev Ops6 min readDev Ops6 min read
Jan 254 Ways to Improve Your Technical Interview ProcessIn the Spring of 2022, an anonymous Google employee published a blind articleattacking some of Google’s technical interview processes. More specifically, it attacks the ‘know it all’ attitude of interviewers, who often lack practical experience, and the complexity of questions that can sometimes take Google’s own employees weeks to solve. …Dev Ops6 min readDev Ops6 min read
Jan 24Sébastien Lorber on Building Documentation Websites Quickly and Easily With DocusaurusThe availability and quality of documentation are perhaps the most valuable assets for helping developers do their job. Likewise, good documentation will make the difference for users in choosing one product instead of another. However, finding the right tooling for managing and hosting documentation it’s a whole task on its…Dev Ops5 min readDev Ops5 min read
Jan 17Blue Green Deployment for Node.js Without KubernetesThe Blue Green Deployment strategy allows for the testing of new deployments with production data before making them available to users. This type of deployment also has the added benefit of having no downtime during the deployment process. Using blue green deployments requires a series of manual tasks. Cloud providers…Nodejs14 min readNodejs14 min read
Jan 12How to Use Sorbet to Type-Check RubyStatically typed code, especially when introduced incrementally to a codebase, can improve reliability and developer productivity while maintaining readability. Stripe calls Sorbet “doubling down on what makes Ruby delightful”. …Dev Ops5 min readDev Ops5 min read
Jan 10Simon Wardley on Improving Business With MapsThe complexity of business and business processes can pull us away from the big picture. Internal documents, graphs, and other visual representations are there to aid us, but they might not be detailed enough, intuitive, or easy to read. In this regard, Wardley maps are business management tools that help…Wardley Maps6 min readWardley Maps6 min read
Jan 5Taming Cloud Costs with InfracostWhen we combine the cloud with IaC tools like Terraform and continuous deployment we get the almost magical ability to create resources on demand. For all its benefits, however, the cloud has also introduced a set of difficulties, one of which is estimating cloud costs accurately. Cloud providers have complex…Cloud10 min readCloud10 min read
Dec 28, 2022Writing Clean and Efficient Table-Driven Unit Tests in GoOver the past years, table-driven tests have become a popular choice for unit tests within the Go community. They facilitate testing a function with a variety of inputs: A table-driven test consists of multiple rows of given inputs and expected outputs. You can keep these tests clean and efficient by…Unit Testing6 min readUnit Testing6 min read
