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Secure Delivery: Better Workflows for Secure Systems and Pain-Free Delivery
The software delivery process has been transformed in the last decade; we’ve adopted well-understood workflows around functions such as testing, release management and operational support. In this article we'll explore the impact that security workflows have on software delivery, explain the root causes and share battle-proven techniques to show how we can make delivering secure software easier.
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Proven Solutions to Five Test Automation Issues
Automated testing is often blocked due to some well-known issues, especially in a microservices architecture. API and service simulators can eliminate five common issues that block test automation.
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How We Improved Application’s Resiliency by Uncovering Our Hidden Issues Using Chaos Testing
This article lists the chaos testing principles which are outlined by Netflix. The readers should be able to understand the advantages and disadvantages that chaos testing offers. This will help them to decide whether they want to perform it or not. The article also explains why we should convince the management to perform chaos tests, considering all benefits over the risks.
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DynamoDB Data Transformation Safety: from Manual Toil to Automated and Open Source
Data transformation remains a continuous challenge in engineering and built upon manual toil. The open source utility Dynamo Data Transform was built to simplify and build safety and guardrails into data transformation for DynamoDB based systems––built upon a robust manual framework that was then automated and open sourced. This article discusses the challenges with Data Transformation.
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Infrastructure as a Code—Why Drift Management Is Not Enough
The reality is that configuration drift will remain unavoidable for the foreseeable future. An EaaS solution, coupled with an IaC platform and good change management policies will help you prevent drift and shorten your development cycles.
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Using DevOps Automation to Combat DevOps Workforce Shortages
A focus on automation can help to combat the current staffing struggles many organizations have with DevOps roles. Effective automation can reduce the toil experienced by developers. Automation efforts should focus on security operations, deployments, continuous delivery, QA testing, and continuous integration.
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Building Effective Developer Tools to Enable an Entire Organization to Move Faster
Building effective tooling can help bring down the time to delivery and increase the number of changes delivered safely. This article demonstrates the tools that Monzo has built to enable developers, and how these tools are being used within the engineering function to deploy hundreds of times per day and beyond the engineering function to run a bank at scale.
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Writing Automated Tests on a Legacy Node.js Back-End
Let’s explore why some Node.js codebases are more challenging to test than others. Then, we explore several techniques to write tests that are simple, robust and fast to check the business logic, including inversion of control, approval tests and - spoiler alert - no mocks!
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Reducing Cloud Infrastructure Complexity
Cloud computing adoption has taken the world by storm, and is accelerating unabated. According to Flexera’s annual State of the Cloud Report for 2020, 93% of respondents used multi or hybrid cloud strategies. This article examines different aspects of cloud infrastructure complexity, and approaches to mitigate it.
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Building Tech at Presidential Scale
Dan Woods discusses the unique challenges of building and running tech for a presidential cycle. Woods also describes how ML was applied at foundational points to reduce operating costs and some of the architectural choices made.
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The Fundamentals of Testing with Persistence Layers
Mocking out dependencies such as databases and other persistence layers leads to ineffective tests. Unfortunately, our industry is also focused on function-level testing to the exclusion of all else, so few are trained on how to write any other type of test. This article seeks to correct the issue by reintroducing the concept of testing with databases.
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Software Testing in the World of Next-Gen Technologies
The introduction of next-gen technologies like AI, Big Data, Robotics and IoT have quickly redefined the way the world looks at software technology. Some of the biggest impacts of these changing trends can be seen in the software testing industry. This article discusses how these emerging technologies need some new approaches, and changes to existing approaches to software testing.