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Automated Testing for Terraform, Docker, Packer, Kubernetes, and More: Yevgeniy Brikman at QCon SF
At QCon SF, Yevgeniy Brikman presented "Automated Testing for Terraform, Docker, Packer, Kubernetes, and More". Key takeaways from the talk included the recommendation to use an appropriate mix of all testing techniques discussed, such as static analysis, unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests.
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Heroku's Journey to Automated Continuous Deployment
Heroku's engineering team wrote about their journey from manual deployments to automated continuous deployments for Heroku Runtime, their managed environment for applications. They achieved this using Heroku primitives and a custom deployer tool.
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Four Strategies to Handle Backpressure - Jay Phelps at ReactiveConf 2019
Jay Phelps, RxJS core team member, recently presented at ReactiveConf 2019 in Prague what backpressure really is, when it happens, and the strategies which can be applied to deal with it.
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Apple Adds Native W3C WebDriver Support to iOS
With the release of iOS 13, Apple now includes native iOS W3C WebDriver support. Beyond previous support for WebDriver added in Safari 10, WebDriver can now easily be used for testing mobile Safari web applications efficiently.
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How to Remain Agile While Scaling
Managing the complexity and scale of both the business and the software were key challenges as Yext started to grow, said Sean MacIsaac at Agile Business Day 2019. Yext addresses this by having product solutions that are broadly applicable and configurable by their customer team, and by hiding complexity with independently deployable services with clearly defined interfaces.
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Google Enables Continuous Testing Using the Android Emulator
The Android Emulator is the main tool Android developers use to test their apps. Google has just made integrating the Android Emulator within a continuous testing pipeline easier by open sourcing the Android Emulator Container Scripts and two related tools.
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Managing Global CDN Operations at Netflix
At the recent Strange Loop conference, Robert Fernandes, engineering manager at Netflix, who leads the Open Connect Tools team, gave a talk on how they manage operations for Netflix’s in-house OpenConnect content delivery network (CDN).
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Addressing Multi-Cloud Automation, HashiCorp Releases Terraform Cloud
In a recent blog post, HashiCorp announced the full release of Terraform Cloud, an open-source SaaS platform for teams to manage their infrastructure-as-code workflows. This orchestration takes place through cloud-agnostic tools that allow teams to improve their productivity through repeatable automation. This announcement follows their May 2019 announcement of Remote State Management.
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Amazon Releases a Preview of the New AWS Tools for PowerShell
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced it would release a preview of refactored AWS Tools for PowerShell, allowing developers and administrators to manage their AWS services from the PowerShell scripting environment.
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Introduction to Stateful Property Based Testing - Lambda Days 2019
Tomasz Kowal, tech lead at ClubCollect, presented at Lambda Days 2019 an introduction to stateful property based testing. Property-based testing helped major companies find bugs which were not caught through example-based testing. Stateful property-based testing leverages an underlying model of the system under test to generate interesting test sequences, increasing the likelihood of finding bugs.
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Terraform 0.12 Release: New HCL Syntax, Improved Error Messages, and Upgrade Tooling
Terraform 0.12 release includes updates to the HCL, such as first-class expression syntax, value types, loops, dynamic blocks, and conditional expression improvements. Error messages now contain additional context, and the output to a terraform plan now renders in a more readable format. Terraform 0.12 isn't 100% backwards compatible, but comes with an upgrade and validation tool.
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Using Helm Charts Tools to Manage Kubernetes Deployments at Delivery Hero
Delivery Hero’s engineering team uses Helm and related tools to simplify management of multiple Kubernetes environments, sensitive data, and configuration.
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Infrastructure Automation Company Chef Commits to Open Source
Chef, an infrastructure automation company, has committed to developing all of their software as open source under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Optimize Automated Testing Using Defect Data
By integrating the test framework and the bug tracking system, it becomes possible to deactivate test cases for known bugs and reactivate them when the bug is solved. Aneta Petkova, QA chapter lead at SumUp, presented The Framework That Knows Its Bugs at TestCon Moscow 2019.
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Open Source Testware for Systematic IoT Testing: Eclipse IoT-Testware
The project Eclipse IoT-Testware is delivering free open-source test tools and programs for the industry and companies developing Internet-of-Things (IoT) solutions. At TestCon Moscow 2019 Axel Rennoch, senior scientist at Fraunhofer FOKUS, spoke about quality assurance for IoT.