Here at Kong, we’re advocates for architecting your application as a group of microservices . In this design style, individual services are responsible for handling one aspect of your application, and they communicate with other services within your network to share data. Systems like Kubernetes or the Kuma service mesh help orchestrate traffic and manage network policies so that your microservices can function together as a unified whole.
When I first started writing Ruby code professionally back in 2011, one of the things that impressed me the most about the language was its flexibility. It felt as though with Ruby, everything was possible. Compared to the rigidity of languages like C# and Java, Ruby programs almost seemed like they were alive. Consider how many incredible things you can do in a Ruby program. You can define and delete methods at will. You can call methods that don’t exist.
A hands-on article about how to get started with Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile by creating a cross-platform mobile app and running it via Bitrise.
Today’s software testing trends show the growing demand for more efficient and automation-oriented API testing. Many of the current test automation solutions focus on the UI, while most API-level testing is still done manually. As a result, testers are in need of easy-to-use, intelligent automation tools for testing APIs — improving their productivity and efficiency, while also reducing time-to-market.
Visual Studio Code is a feature-rich IDE that can be used for small personal projects and massive enterprise projects alike. It’s a great tool that enables a developer to focus on the task they have in front of them, but there are times when a developer gets slowed down like when they have to move from the keyboard to the mouse and then having to click through endless menus to find the file or feature they’re looking for. Thinking it sounds like you?
In a company’s early days, the difference between C-level executives and the rest of the organization is simple — employees can walk away from a failure, leaders cannot. Under those conditions, certain types of people thrive in leadership positions and get a company from ideation to production.
At SLOConf 2021 I talked about how we may use error budgets to add pass/fail criterias to reliability tests we run as part of our CI pipelines. As Site Reliability Engineers, one of our primary goals is to reduce manual labor, or toil, to a minimum while at the same time keeping the systems we manage as reliable and available as possible. To be able to do this in a safe way, it's really important that we're able to easily inspect the state of the system.
Cloud testing is expected to grow to USD 11 Billion by 2023 , and we are talking about only cloud testing here, not cloud computing. Complex testing scenarios such as cross-browser testing, parallel testing, can be made more effective when done on the cloud. The reason being – the cloud provides the required testing environment effortlessly and can be scaled up or down as needed.
In the previous chapter of this series, we looked at hot code reloading in Elixir and why we should use GenServer to implement long-running processes. But to organize a whole application, we need one more building block — supervisors. Let’s take a look at supervisors in detail.
