In a recently posted article on DZone, “Microservices: Good for Developers’ Mental Health,” Sauce Labs engineer, Simone Pezzano, addresses the link between developer confidence and mental health in today’s new workplace. Pezzano tells the story of his team’s bumpy start on their journey from monolith to microservices. Initially, Pezzano viewed microservices as a scary concept with rapid release cycles and shorter testing times.
Pearson, founded in the 19th century, is one of the world leaders in providing education services all around the globe. Francisco Muniz is the Performance Architect for Pearson, responsible for Performance Alignment across Pearson’s Virtual Learning. This position entails working with many different parts of the organization, such as Architecture, Development, and QA. As such, Francisco was leading and overseeing the important Octoperf and Loadrunner software switching project.
Ready to speed up your Kong Lua custom plugin development process? Before diving into this post, make sure you’re familiar with the basics of plugin development and have gone through the basics described in our Kong documentation.
Unit testing ensures that every feature or component of a program functions as intended. Unit testing is carried out by developers during the development sprint stages. This assists them in identifying and correcting tiny faults that might lead to larger issues in later stages. Previously, conducting unit tests on a built module was a time-consuming and laborious effort since developers had to manually test code for each component. As a result, final release dates were pushed back.
It’s a long tradition at Bitrise that we compile the biggest learnings from the previous year in our annual State of App Development blog post. Let’s take a look at what 2021 brought our way, shall we?
During the holiday break, our family had to get tested for COVID. We got at-home tests, as they were available, and it was easier than having to wait in line at a testing center. This got me thinking of a recent article in the New York Times, which raises the notion that experts are questioning the importance/value of measuring COVID caseloads with the rise in the use of at home tests.
Speedscale is proud to announce its Centralized Log Collection capability. When diagnosing the source of problems in your API, more information is better. For most engineers, the diagnosis process usually starts with the application logs. Unfortunately, logs are usually either discarded or stored in Observability systems that engineers don’t have direct access to. Compounding this issue is that the log information is typically not correlated to what calls were made against the API.
Processes exist within organizations to help them carry out the tasks and activities necessary to keep the business running. But often, these processes don’t run as smoothly as they should. Inefficiencies creep in, certain activities take longer than necessary, or important steps are skipped altogether. How can you get at the root of the issues that are bogging down your processes to get them running more smoothly and efficiently? The old approach to process optimization is no longer enough.