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Nick Tune in Strategy, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, and DDD

Oct 29, 2016

Which 3 Coding Habits Have You Come to Love?

As more grey hairs start to appear on my head, more contentious opinions on the art of programming start to develop inside it. And I’ve noticed three of those opinions that just keep getting stronger. Either I’m completely wrong (did happen once), or…

Nick Tune in Strategy, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, and DDD

Feb 13, 2016

Play Framework Conditional Form Mappings

I’m rather partial to Play Framework’s form mappings. Their expressiveness sets a benchmark, bettered by no other web framework I’ve encountered. And I especially love that there is no need for reflection.

However, my colleagues and I at the VOA uncovered…

Nick Tune in Strategy, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, and DDD

Jan 23, 2016

Testing Without Objects — I Like It

Unit testing behaviours that depend only on functions has been a revelation for me. Without the labour of having to mock objects, I find creating tests easier and feel more satisfied with the resulting code which is cleaner, clearer and at-least as expressive.

I’m…

Nick Tune in Strategy, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, and DDD

Dec 12, 2015

Functional Application Services

Each business use case or key transaction in your application can be modelled as a unique, explicit application service. Modelled this way, and named as verbs, application services accentuate key business concepts — improving the alignment between your problem domain and…

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Nick Tune in Strategy, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, and DDD

Nov 15, 2015

API Testing Patterns for the Play Framework

A robust suite of end-to-end tests for your APIs gives you the confidence to iterate and move quickly. With APIs being easier and faster to test than web frontends, the invaluable benefits of testing come at a low cost of investment.

Two of the key…

Nick Tune in Strategy, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, and DDD

Oct 21, 2015

Strict JSON Deserialization with Enum Validation

It’s important to validate data sent to your APIs. Silently ignoring unrecognised fields or not detecting and rejecting values outside of the allowable range is a dangerous way for errors to go undetected.

Clients will be calling your API…

Nick Tune in Strategy, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, and DDD

Jan 13, 2015

Finding Common User Journeys with Apache Spark

Understanding the behaviour of your users as they navigate and interact with your websites and applications is one of the key sources of insight for improving your products and your business model. One particular metric that can be especially…

Nick Tune in Strategy, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, and DDD

Feb 15, 2014

A Short Technology Retrospective

I’ve been using some new technologies in the past 7 months whilst working on a major re-write of an old legacy search application. Some of these technology choices have had a big impact and I’m excited to share brief details of them with you (catch me on twitter if you…

Nick Tune in Strategy, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, and DDD

Dec 22, 2013

2013 — Highlights and Shoutouts

Don’t know about you but some exciting things happened to me in 2013 as a developer. A few people in particular helped me not only achieve, but enjoy this year as well. Scroll down to see if you’re one of them on my list of shoutouts.

Would love to hear your highlights…

Nick Tune in Strategy, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, and DDD

Dec 6, 2013

Scala eXchange 2013 Review — Day 2

Scala fans from far and wide were present at this year’s Scala eXchange in London. In my last post I gave an insight into the venue, the atmosphere, and of course the talks… but only from day 1.