The threat of “zombie UI”
After World War II, the United States went through the largest housing and commercial building boom in human history. Millions of soldiers came home, new...
Unit vs Integration vs End to End Test
A program can pass every unit test and the product can still be broken. Maybe the database schema is wrong, or two services disagree on...
Why Infrastructure as Code Matters
Once infrastructure affects how software behaves, it becomes part of the release, which is why it needs to be treated as code. Many applications used...
The Magnet Dilemma
As a kid, I loved playing with magnets. Most of mine came out of broken toys. In school I learned Faraday’s law and Gauss’...
Building an Iconic Company
I came across a talk from Keith Rabois. For those who don't know, he is a managing director at Khosla Ventures and a...
Why Version Control things
Version control is a way of documenting how something got made. That covers more than the code. It covers your configs, your docs, your scripts,...