by Richard | Nov 29, 2017 | Culture, Practical
When working on a codebase as a team, especially in a corporate environment, there are choices you can make that can have unexpected impacts. The tendency is for a standardized build, and on the surface this can be appealing. It’s easier for procurement, because...
by Richard | Nov 29, 2017 | Culture, Testing
When teams start out with writing tests for their codebase, it’s very common to have difficulties because certain types of code are harder to test or “untestable”. A mistake that’s commonly made is to try to use mocks or similar, and make a...
by Richard | Nov 29, 2017 | Practical, War Stories
When building a distributed system, you need a way of communicating between the components or services, and this is often a message bus. Message buses come in different forms, but ultimately use the same paradigms – commands and events. One of the earlier distributed...
