In this post, we will show a worked example of building a…
This is the second in a four part series on how we at Qubit built our production ready Kubernetes (k8s) environments. For those of us with pre-existing configuration management workflows, moving to k8s can present some challenges. We…
This is the first in a four part series on how Qubit have built our production ready Kubernetes (k8s) environments. There are already many excellent tutorials on k8s. The title of these articles is an homage to Kubernetes Up and Running, the…
While I love React, testing React components leaves a lot to be desired. The TestUtils are useful but don’t have a particularly intuitive API and lead to verbose tests, e.g.
I joined Qubit’s engineering department based in London a couple of months ago. The challenge is, I live 4000 miles away in sunny Wisconsin, USA. I’m the first person at Qubit to remote work entirely from the get-go, and so…
Qubit’s Visitor Cloud receives over a billion events a day from thousands of customer websites and mobile applications all over the world. Our service level objective is to have these events validated, enriched and available for consumption by our stable of personalisation and…
Engineers are perfectionists by nature. Celebrating success is not something they are good at because of the nagging feeling that things could be improved further. As a result we have not celebrated all the successes that we should have. Recently, we have discovered and…
We have so many new features in ES2015+ that now I seem to be forgetting them.
I was recently throwing together a little node microservice that was heavily utilising some rather fancy sql via knex. Although the builder that knex offers is…
