… and flavours thereof, is a question I have been hearing for years now.
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
Developers have — with the advent of DevOps — been working more and more in Operations and Infrastructure. Testers…
(originally written for and published in Testing Trapeze)
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…
“I’m not good enough” says the graduate to herself, shuffling her feet. “All those uni assignments made no difference; everyone knows more than me. Why would anyone want to listen to what I have to say?” Surrounded by self-assured, battle-hardened colleagues, there seems an insurmountable distance…
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:
Good [insert time of day here] to you.
Welcome to the October edition of the girlapalooza’s monthly blog post, as you may be aware this edition’s topic was not voted on, I promise democracy will be restored next month.
