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This blog post tells the story of why and how we migrated from the Node Redis client library to Ioredis.

In this two-part series, you’ll get a comprehensive overview of everything you need to know to test your LiveView applications in Elixir. In Part I, I’ll introduce you to LiveView testing guidelines and you’ll write some flexible and elegant LiveView unit tests. In Part II, you’ll write interactive LiveView tests that validate a full set of live view behaviors.

Building on Bitrise is about to get faster and more flexible. Farewell to concurrency limitations and build time-outs, as you access our most powerful machines to date.

As Atlassian has decided to deprecate their server products, including Jira Server and Confluence Server, game studios using these products have to look for alternatives, or swallow the cost to migrate to Atlassian’s other products (Cloud or Data Center). Let’s explore how life may look like after Jira, as this is something we have discussed with several game studios since Atlassian made their announcement .

Throughout the years I’ve created my fair share of native addons. The first ones were created by using the native C++ Node.js and v8 API’s. When NAN was created which made life much easier, especially in terms of maintenance, there was no question that I should move all my addons to use it. The years passed and Node-API was created and though it was on my radar and saw the benefits of using it, I never had the time to try it on my own modules.

Vue is a popular front-end that is especially useful for Rails developers since it was designed to be incrementally adoptable. That means you can use Vue for parts of your UI without having to rebuild everything from scratch. In this article, John Emmanual will introduce us to Vue, show us how to set it up in Rails, and walk us through a simple project.

Canary deployment is a risk mitigation strategy for software releases. it allows applications developers to limit the damage caused by the release of faulty software updates and roll back such faulty updates quickly and safely without compromising the entire software assets.

In March 2021, a 200,000 tonne ship got stuck in the Suez Canal, and the global shipping industry suddenly caught the world’s attention. It made us realize ships play an important role in our daily lives. Really important in fact; 90% of the things we consume arrive by ship. Take a look at this map. By visualizing vessel routes over time, the pattern creates a map of the earth. Note the lack of vessels travelling close to the coast of Somalia where piracy is common.

Do you frequently find yourself typing a long command on the command line or checking the bash history for a command you've already typed? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, bash aliases will come in helpful. You can use aliases in Bash to create a shortcut command for a longer command. When working on the command line, bash aliases are essentially shortcuts that can save you time and effort by eliminating the need to remember long commands.

Microservices are an accelerating trend thanks to rousing endorsements from the likes of Google, Netflix, and Amazon. The microservice architecture is advantageous for it’s scalability, agility and flexibility. In contrast, the monolithic approach is the traditional tried-and-true model for building software. It’s much easier to debug and test. But how do you know which approach is best for your organization?