The Main Thread – Issue #4
The Main Thread – Issue #4 – A newsletter about software engineering by Alessandro Diaferia focusing on engineering practices and startup engineering.
The Main Thread – Issue #3
The Main Thread – Issue #3 – A newsletter about software engineering by Alessandro Diaferia focusing on engineering practices and startup engineering.
The Main Thread – Issue #2
The Main Thread – Issue #2 – A newsletter about software engineering by Alessandro Diaferia focusing on engineering practices and startup engineering.
The Main Thread – Issue #1
The Main Thread – Issue #1 – A newsletter about software engineering by Alessandro Diaferia focusing on engineering practices and startup engineering.
Yes, TDD slows you down
TDD is a strict software development methodology that might make you feel as if you’re doing things slower than you actually could. Is it a bad thing?
How to keep your Amazon MQ queues clean
Amazon MQ queues might fill up if you use them in your tests but don’t take care of cleaning them up. Let’s explore together a way of addressing this issue. I was hoping to avoid writing dedicated code to just consume all the messages enqueued during tests so I started looking around for some tool … How to keep your Amazon MQ queues clean
The Mythical DevOps Engineer
I’m always a little suspicious of job specs looking for the so-called DevOps Engineer role. They often mention a vast variety of duties and responsibilities. Are they hiring for a single role or a whole team? Roles having DevOps in their title hardly share the same meaning. They often have something in common, though. They … The Mythical DevOps Engineer
How I enabled CORS for any API on my Single Page App
In this blog post I’ll show you how I used free services available to anyone to build a little proxy server for my app to overcome certain CORS limitations for my Single Page App.
How I used GCP to create the transcripts for my Podcast
While building my podcast I experimented with GCP to produce the transcripts to my episodes. TL;DR it wasn’t too bad!
How I used Chisel to pull Gitlab pipelines stats
I built chisel.cloud in my spare time to automate something I did to derive insights about my Gitlab pipeline times. In this blog post I’m going to show you how I did it in the hope that it might be useful to you too. As you can see from the picture above, Chisel is still … How I used Chisel to pull Gitlab pipelines stats