5 days agoRelease Management for MicroservicesImagine a microservices application consisting of dozens of continuously-deployed autonomous services. Each of the application’s constellation of services has its own repository, with a different versioning scheme and a different team continually shipping new versions. Riddle me this: How can I tell the (whole) application’s version? Being that the change…Microservices5 min read
6 days agoWoody Zuill on How Mob Programming Makes the DifferenceMob programming challenges the idea of developer teams as a group of individuals with a common goal yet who do most of the work separately. Hence, mob programming emphasizes the importance of collaboration, having faith that software development can benefit from it just as human enterprises have done throughout history. …6 min read
Jun 22AWS Serverless With MonoreposLearn how to build and deploy a facial recognition application using serverless functions in AWS. Along the way, we’ll discover the Serverless Application Model, Lambda testing, and optimizing monorepo CI/CDs. Going serverless with AWS and monorepos We’ll be deploying a face-indexing application built with a serverless backend that consumes AWS services. The components we need are: …AWS10 min read
Jun 21Domain-Driven Design for MicroservicesMicroservices are the most scalable way of developing software. But you need a good design that lets developer teams work autonomously and deploy without stepping on each other’s toes, otherwise you most lose of the scalability benefits. Domain-Driven Development allows us to plan a microservice architecture by decomposing the larger…Software Development7 min read
Jun 16What is microservice architecture?Beloved by tech giants like Netflix and Amazon, microservices have become the new darlings in modern software development, even though they are over a decade old. But, despite the benefits, this paradigm is easy to get wrong. So, let’s explore what microservices are and, more importantly, what they are not. What are microservices? …Microservices6 min read
Jun 14Llewellyn Falco on Mob Programming for Optimizing Testing and Team GrowthMob and pair programming are meant to ease collaboration and improve communication between team members. Still, other aspects of software development can also gain something from it. This is the case for testing optimization, as well as for preserving an organization’s culture and growing teams. To shed light on these…Software Testing7 min read
Jun 9Why End-to-End (E2E) Testing is Often Good Enough — SemaphoreEnd-to-End tests are the way to ensure sanity and the integrity of a system as a whole. It lies in the upper tier of the testing pyramid right below UI testing; in E2E testing,we pick user scenarios and test if all components of the system produce desired outputs when they…Software Testing7 min read
Jun 8IntroductionWhile most Go applications compile to a single binary, web applications also ship with templates, assets and configuration files; these can get out of sync and cause faulty deployments. Docker lets us create a self-contained image with everything our application needs to work. In this tutorial, you will learn how…Docker16 min read
Jun 2Building a Go Microservice with CI/CDThe TestMain function sets Gin to use the test mode and calls the rest of the test functions. The getRouter function creates and returns a router in a manner similar to the main application. The saveLists() function saves the original article list in a temporary variable. This temporary variable is…Go13 min read
Jun 15 Ways to Run Faster CI/CD BuildsIf you practice continuous integration, you rely on a CI/CD pipeline to build, test, and package your product. That means that the speed of your CI/CD build directly impacts the pace of software development — if your CI/CD pipeline runs faster then productivity will increase. How fast is fast? In…Software Development5 min read
