No Binaries in the Codebase
Binary data shouldn't be a part of the codebase. This is pretty well-known practice. But how to proceed when we do need binaries in our codebase, for instance as test data?
Double Testing
Write your tests once and run them twice - as both unit and integration tests - sounds like a good deal, let's take a look at this practice.
Glass-Box Testing Doesn't Need Mocking
Black-box testing is testing of a component via its API without any knowledge of its implementation details. As the opposite there is the white-box testing. And it about testing implementation, right? Well, no...
Product Releasing Pipeline in AWS
Continuous delivery (CD) brings a lot of ideas essential for a modern software product deployment. In this article we discuss how to follow CD principles by building CD pipelines with an example in AWS.
Dealing with an Exception is One Thing
Nothing new, but I keep seeing this bad practice around again and again... Let's explain why this is incorrect: boolean save().
How to Manage AWS CloudFormation Stack Dependencies
Automated infrastructure (Infrastructure as Code) is essential to succeed (not only) in the cloud. AWS provides its own service for managing resource stacks: AWS CloudFormation. What are the options to manage dependencies between stacks, how to use them and which pros & cons they have?
Challenges for Serverless Blue-Green Deployment
I already blogged about the serverless blue-green development some time ago. I used it in practice a lot with very promising results. But there are challenges as well.
Transducers Compose Top-to-Bottom
Transducers are composable reducers. A transducer takes a reducer and returns another reducer. Transducers compose via simple function composition. But, there is a tiny difference between function and transducer composition: functions compose bottom-to-top while transducers top-to-bottom.
Package by Component with Clean Modules in Java
Software architecting is about tradeoffs. Even when the theory is good the implementation details can break it. In this article I try to find the best from two architectural approaches: Package by component and Clean architecture (a variety of Ports and adapters).
Lesson Learned: Principles of Serverless Development
After some time of developing serverless systems (especially on AWS) I take a look back and try to summarize what I have learned so far.