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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A Kuberentes Ingress is a collection of rules that allow inbound connections to reach cluster services. It can be configured to give services externally-reachable URLs, load balance traffic, terminate SSL, offer name-based virtual hosting, and more. Nginx ingresses are pretty much the default choice for cloud-agnostic ingresses, and it was our choice as well. That…
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If you’ve written code for LoadRunner, you may have been lucky enough to work with The Master. If you were calm and patient, you may have even been shown The Way. The great secret. The lost, ancient art of opening the perfect bug. A bug that no dev can close as “description not clear/does not…
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Technology is constantly transitioning, and in this state of continuous ‘in-between’, hybrid is king. From manual to automated, physical to virtual, on-prem to the cloud, and now monolith to microservices and serverless. Serverless today is a fresh and blooming ecosystem, yet when it comes to making the transition to serverless (or microservices) the future…
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