As software development evolves, robust testing has become more important than ever. Playwright stands out as a powerful tool for running end-to-end tests, offering features like sharding to enhance performance...
Anyone who has used GenAI coding assistants knows they can be extremely helpful in some scenarios, but offer only incremental improvements in others. In my consulting role as GM of...
I think Generative AI can transform the traditional testing landscape. In this post, I'm going to explain why, and present an example of it in action....
A couple of weeks ago I attended ApiDays Australia 2024 with my colleagues Abhishek Rana and Prodip Guha Roy.Though working across different client sites, all three of us are software...
While we would all like to think everything we do is perfect, mistakes happen from time to time. People can select the wrong versions for deployment by mistake, bugs in...
It's no secret that when it comes to building data platforms, I've spent a fair amount of time building cloud provider native solutions, both in AWS and GCP. So when...
In a recent project, the team wanted to improve the deployment and management of Route53 Resolver DNS Firewalls across the AWS Organisation. We ultimately utilised AWS Firewall Manager and gathered...
Development Containers (or Dev Containers for short) have been around for a few years now (since ~2019) and have reached a level of maturity where I'm now comfortable recommending their adoption. I've found that Dev Containers are a fantastic tool to help teams build a consistent and productive Developer Experience.
In this post I'll cover what Dev Containers are, why you should use them and how to get started. While Dev Containers is an open specification that has growing cross-IDE support this post will focus primarily on using Dev Containers with Visual Studio Code (VS Code) as the IDE.
IntroductionIn a recent project I worked on for a client, I needed to design a system to synchronise updates from one database to another, in a brittle architecture which already...