Few things are more frustrating than slow, flaky test suites. You're ready to deploy, wait 20 minutes for CI to run, only to find that a test failure in code you've never touched is blocking you. You dig into the source and find the problem: an external API call. It works (slowly) most of the time. But sometimes the network glitches and it fails. What do you do? In this article, José Manuel shows us several techniques for removing external API dependencies from our tests.

Welcome to another one of our Community Roundups, folks! Looks like summer really kicked in with all the heat, so we thought we’d bring you some refreshments in the form of some tweets and articles. Let’s see what we have this time!

Hans Ulrich Obrist once said that “everything I do is somehow connected to velocity”. We couldn’t agree more. As is in most companies, there’s always something affecting your team’s velocity, whether that’s a new work from home routine, a change in budget, or a variety of other reasons. So many influences are out of your control- how do you make sure that your devs are working at optimal velocity?

In today’s post, we’ll look at two Elixir HTTP client libraries: Mint and Finch. Finch is built on top of Mint. We’ll see the benefits offered by this abstraction layer. We’ll also talk about some of the existing HTTP client libraries in the ecosystem and discuss some of the things that make Mint and Finch different. Finally, we’ll put together a quick project that makes use of Finch to put all of our learning into action. Let’s jump right in!

As they say in the sports world, “instinctively knowing when to run forward, when to ease back, and when to let someone else take over...these are the marks of a great team and a great team player”. Here, in the tech world, we couldn’t agree more.

There are two ways you can view the current mappings on your Logit ELK Stacks. One way is to use dev tools in Kibana. You can access Kibana from any of your dashboards by choosing from your dashboard Stack settings > Access Kibana. You can also search for a specific mapping of an Index name. For example if we wanted to see the mappings for the a Filebeat index name we can run the following to return only the desired mappings.