Shine recently took on management of a SaaS product hosted on AWS. Whilst getting up to speed with the application functionality and architecture, I had the task of upgrading the AWS RDS instances underlying the app to a new server type. This was due to...
Improving the quality of software doesn’t have to come at the expense of delivery velocity. An old adage applies - work smarter, not harder. It’s not about applying more testing. It’s about adopting a risk-based QE approach to optimise testing strategies and effort....
Recently my team has been running a large Jenkins instance and multiple agents in AWS, with hundreds of pipelines. In this post I'll explain how we switched to an on-demand, serverless Jenkins environment on AWS Fargate, whilst still retaining the ability to build Docker images...
In this post I want to share a story. The story is about how I added semantic-release to an existing Angular library project. It's also about some of the errors I encountered along the way, and how I resolved them. There aren't many such stories...
Cloudflare Dev Workshop 2020 In mid-February, I had the privilege to attend the first Melbourne Cloudflare dev event. This was just one of a series of sessions they ran across the country to reach out to developers and help educate people around their thinking and the...
So I just attended the 2019 YOW! Conference in Melbourne. There were wacky booths, certified delish food (see picture above), and a whole heap of swag. There was also a star-studded lineup of speakers presenting amazing content that was both insightful and challenging.
