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Theresa Neate

Apr 23, 2018

“Do we (still) need QAs?”

… and flavours thereof, is a question I have been hearing for years now.

Venetia Bird

Aug 13, 2017

Game of Lambdas

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.

Jack Low

Aug 11, 2017

A Journey into Extensible Effects in Scala

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…

Theresa Neate

Jul 16, 2017

Lean QA (aka QA Ops)

Developers have — with the advent of DevOps — been working more and more in Operations and Infrastructure. Testers…

Mehdi Mollaverdi

Jul 5, 2017

My Journey in a UI Project (aka front-end is the new back-end)

Theresa Neate

Mar 16, 2017

Bug bash — the game

(originally written for and published in Testing Trapeze)

Scaling On-Call: from 10 Ops to 100 Devs

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…

Ken Scambler

Dec 22, 2016

Not good enough

“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…

Manykutty Joy

Dec 15, 2016

What it means to be a QA at REA

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:

Leah Eramo

Nov 24, 2016

Girlapalooza Blog Post — October Edition

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.