Warm weather and cold Northern winds just call for a warm mug of cacao and something to read by the fireplace. Here’s monthly notes for February with topics from testing to software development project guidelines and from microservices to tips and tools. Also learning React App.
Issue 38, 19.02.2019
Testing
How to stop hating your tests
I’m not a fan of extensive ui tests. I think they should be mostly about seeing that the whole system functions when all systems are integrated and functional. This talk makes a good case out of it. If you want to skip right to this subject, it starts around at 18:50 or so.
Software development
My Opinionated Setup for Web Projects
“During the past few years, I have worked on multiple smaller and larger projects. In this blog post I explain my default project setup for a typical web frontend project.”
Project Guidelines
“While developing a new project is like rolling on a green field for you, maintaining it is a potential dark twisted nightmare for someone else. Here’s a list of guidelines we’ve found, written and gathered that (we think) works really well with most JavaScript projects here at elsewhen.”
Microservices
Introduction to Kubernetes
Introduces you to Kubernetes.
Building Microservices: Designing fine-grained systems (pdf)
“Distributed systems have become more fine-grained in the past 10 years,
shifting from code-heavy monolithic applications to smaller, self-contained microservices. But developing these systems brings its own set of headaches. With lots of examples and practical advice, this book takes a holistic view of the topics that system architects and administrators must consider when building, managing, and evolving microservice architectures.”
Microservices vs The World
“In the last 5 years microservices have been pretty much the topic on every architectural conversation. The idea is great, small, independent, cohesive, services that can be implemented, tested, maintained and released individually without much impact on the rest of the system. Microservices are then the holy grail of architectures all positives and almost zero negatives. If that is the case, why in the last 2-3 years our holy grail is getting bad press? Some engineers even suggest that a monolith is better. How can a monolith be better? Well, it all comes down to pros and cons and how the business is structured.”
Microservices architecture on paper sounds amazing but unless the business as a whole is not committed to it, then your department will end up with low morale, low productivity, and tones of code debt.
Microservices vs The World
Tools of trade
DockStation
“Application for managing projects based on Docker. Instead of lots of CLI commands you can monitor, configure, and manage services and containers while using just a GUI.” See running containers in histogram-type grapsh, monitor stats, connect with ssh to remote hosts, start/stop containers.
Scrolling inside Screen
Disable the alternate text buffer in the xterm termcap info inside screen so that you can use the scroll bars (and mouse wheel) to scroll up and down.
~/.screenrc. # Enable mouse scrolling and scroll bar history scrolling termcapinfo xterm* ti@:te@
Learn
Learn React App
The goal of this tutorial is to quickly get you off the ground with React concepts. This tutorial has hands-on exercises which I consider to be the most important part of this tutorial.
Something different
MTB Trails Finale Ligure
I wish I was there shredding.
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