A common architectural style (at the time of writing) is to split up applications into many, smaller, more focussed applications. Frequently this style is known by the term microservices. When working with microservices I’ve rarely had the need to run, and actually use, more than a single web application concurrently in my development environment. ...
Following on from the post about development practices and principles I wanted to capture principles more related to general ways of thinking and working. As before, this isn’t in any particular order. ...
During my time working in software development I’ve picked up a few guiding principles I try to consistently follow. Some of them have always been the way I’ve tried to work and others have been adopted after having been burnt by not using it in the first place or learning better ways of doing and thinking about things. ...
Pipelines in Heroku are pretty awesome. This is how I went about setting up a Node.js app to have automated deployments for all pull requests, an automated deployment to the staging environment and a manual stage for promoting to the production environment. Pretty much a bread and butter pipeline. (This is an image heavy post) ...
This is a post I have been sat on for some time. In fact the date of the day in question was 01/02/2016 so some details are going to be a little inaccurate but hopefully the essence is maintained. ...
A good commit message is a hard thing to do. ...