Published in Better Programming·Aug 26, 2020Yes, TDD Slows You DownAnd that’s OK — I recently had the opportunity to reflect on testing practices — in particular, the different layers of testing (unit testing, integration testing, acceptance testing). The test pyramid suggests that each level has an associated cost. The cost of your tests then translates to the pace at which you can make…Programming3 min read
Jul 30, 2020How to keep your Amazon MQ queues cleanAmazon MQ queues might fill up if you use them in your tests but don’t take care of cleaning them up. Let’s explore together a way of addressing this issue. I was hoping to avoid writing dedicated code to just consume all the messages enqueued during tests so I started…Amazon2 min read
Published in Better Programming·Jul 27, 2020The Mythical DevOps EngineerI’m always a little suspicious of job specs looking for the so-called DevOps engineer role — Job specs for DevOps engineer jobs often mention a vast variety of duties and responsibilities. Are they hiring for a single role or a whole team? Roles having DevOps in their title hardly share the same meaning. They often have something in common, though. …Programming9 min read
Published in Better Programming·Jul 7, 2020How I Enabled CORS for Any API on My Single-Page AppAnd how you can too — In this article, I’ll show you how I used free services available to anyone to build a little proxy server for my app to overcome certain CORS limitations for my single-page app. I built Chisel to help with some repetitive API-response composition and manipulation I was doing at work. It’s…Programming7 min read
May 14, 2020How I used GCP to create the transcripts for my PodcastI’m currently working on a series of episodes for a Podcast I’ll be publishing soon. The Podcast will be in Italian and I wanted to make sure to publish the episode transcripts together with the audio episodes. The idea of manually typing all the episodes text wasn’t really appealing to…Productivity5 min read
May 8, 2020How I used Chisel to pull Gitlab pipelines statsI built chisel.cloud in my spare time to automate something I did to derive insights about my Gitlab pipeline times. In this blog post I’m going to show you how I did it in the hope that it might be useful to you too. As you can see from the…Open Source4 min read
Published in HackerNoon.com·Mar 18, 2019Writing a GraphQL Domain Specific Language (DSL) in KotlinI’ve recently spent some time testing a GraphQL endpoint against a few queries. At the moment I’m keeping my queries as multi-line strings but I was wondering: How hard would it be to build a GraphQL query DSL in Kotlin? I thought this could be a good opportunity to become…Kotlin4 min read
Published in HackerNoon.com·Dec 17, 2018Testing LiveData on AndroidTesting LiveData represents an interesting challenge due to the peculiarities of its technology and the way it eases development for your Android app. I’ve recently started to build an Android app to keep motivated on my journey to learn Kotlin. My most recent experience has been with Architecture Components and…Android3 min read
Aug 20, 2018Business outcome language: an introduction for software engineersUsing a business outcome language helps keeping the problem definition focused on the value that you should deliver to your customers. Let’s explore together how to make sure our language is not polluted by technical details. As a technological leader at your company, you are the citizen of two worlds…Software Development5 min read
Jul 29, 2018Email development with React and WebpackEmail development is often an overlooked practice due to the peculiarities and constraints that most email clients impose. If you want to deliver a delightful user experience to your product you have to make sure you maintain the design of your product consistent across all the media it is consumed…Development6 min read
