Dan Abramov’s tweet the other day got me thinking:
(originally written for and published in Testing Trapeze)
In this blog post, I’m going to demonstrate how Reactive Streams can allow us to elegantly work with DynamoDB, a key-value data store with a predetermined write capacity.
This is an Ignite I gave at DevOpsDays Sydney 2016.
Like a lot of on-call systems ours was once pretty terrible. We had 10 operations staff on-call, and we were responsible for every system in the company. Spending a week on-call…
… and flavours thereof, is a question I have been hearing for years now.
Developers have — with the advent of DevOps — been working more and more in Operations and Infrastructure. Testers…
Recently we launched a recommendation engine, which was built using AWS Serverless technology. The journey of implementing this solution turned out to be an interesting one on a number of levels. Since its deployment into production, we thought it would be a good idea to share some of our lessons.
This article is an introduction to using the Scala Eff library, which is an implementation of Extensible Effects. This library is now under the Typelevel umbrella, which means it integrates well with popular functional programming libraries in Scala like…
Eff
When I first joined REA, I soon realised that the QA role at REA is very different from a typical QA role and the roles that I had done previously in my career.
Some of the highlights of being a QA at REA for me are:
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