As deployments become more complex and require more moving parts, simulating the full microservice environment on a developer’s laptop becomes really tough. At a certain point, it just can’t be done right and provisioning a cloud-based environment becomes your dev weapon of choice. This may be a less familiar option for devs who are new…
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— “So what are we going to call this startup?” — “I don’t know… Hmm… I guess something dot com or something dot io?” We, humans, are story-driven creatures, and a good story needs good characters. From Odysseus to Sherlock Holmes, from RBG to Daenerys Targaryen to Elon Musk. Good characters come with good names.…
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In the first part of this series, we discussed how developing with microservices differs from monolith development, and how those differences impact the choice of dev environment. In this second post, we’ll talk about when it’s best to leverage the local environment and the tools that can help. The Pluses of Local Development… For most…
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Over the past few years, whenever the topic of microservices arises, this familiar question also comes up: What is the best approach for developing a few/numerous/countless microservices? In a time-honored tradition, I generally answer with a slew of additional questions: Have you already started developing? How large is the team working on the application? Have…
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The term “employee happiness” is thrown around quite a bit these days. It started out as a buzzword and became a business standard several years ago when Google promoted one of their first software engineers to the role of “Jolly Good Fellow”. Since happy workers are more productive and less likely to quit, they are…
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It is no coincidence that “looking for a needle in a haystack” is a popular debugging metaphor. When a single missing ; can cause problems, and you must go through hundreds and thousands of code lines to find it. That’s when the metaphor becomes all too relevant. So what happens when the problem is a…
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In recent years, dev culture got some love from Hollywood and our favorite network shows. The developer image has gone through quite a transformation as well. In the ’80s and ’90’s it was the geeky, socially awkward, living in their parents’ basements stereotype that prevailed. Today, these are the geeky, socially awkward, adorkable characters who…
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I know software engineers. Like, really know them. I’m the sister of one, the spouse of another and the proud daughter of a third. I’m also a veteran B2B marketer with almost a decade of experience marketing to IT and security folks and another five years in MarTech. Does all this qualify me for my…
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As a young SaaS startup, managing your day to day development tasks is as essential as it gets. And so, although we’ve only been around for about a year, we have already fully migrated to Trello, then to Flow, and then to GitHub Issues in our search for the perfect issue-tracking software. Recently, we’ve made…
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When I started coding, my professors taught me that copy-pasting code from the internet is the worst thing a dev can do. It almost felt like an army boot camp, with the drill sergeant screaming: “What will you do in the battlefield, soldier? What will you do when you’re a full-stack developer, and you can’t…
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