Specifications Too Low for Developers: The Typewriter Mentality
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“Why does a developer need a $5000 laptop?” Because writing code isn’t typing—it’s running a small universe on your machine.
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Spring Boot Microservices — Service-to-Service Communication, Circuit Breakers, and Resilience Patterns
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Services that call other services inherit their failures. A slow downstream service starves thread pools. An unavailable one causes cascading failures across the call chain. Here is how to build resilience into service-to-service communication with Spring Boot and Resilience4j.
Read moreStop Skipping Tests in Your Pipeline to Save Time
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Skipping tests in CI is the most self-defeating optimization in software engineering. The short-term time savings are real; the long-term cost in missed defects and eroded trust is far larger.
Read moreStop Storing Credentials in Your Pipeline Configuration Files
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Hardcoded credentials in CI/CD configuration files are a persistent and underestimated security risk. This article covers why they appear, why they're dangerous, and what to use instead.
Read moreTesting Ruby Service Objects with RSpec — My Go-To Approach
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Service objects are easy to test well and easy to test badly. The difference is in how you handle dependencies, what you assert on, and where you draw the boundary between unit and integration.
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