A cron line looks like a latency setting. 0 * * * * reads as “check every hour, so nothing waits long.” In a private repository it’s also a purchase order, and it reorders every hour whether or not …
I have around 120 repositories under my personal GitHub account. Some are active, most are dormant, and all of them rot at the same rate. Dependencies drift, GitHub Actions pin to versions that get …
Yesterday I spent some time experimenting with building containerized Go applications. Writing a small restful web service in go is really quite straightforward and there are many better examples out …
Working with small teams is a lot of fun and I find it fairly easy to keep track of what is happening with version control and build systems. Errors and failures don’t come up that often and when they …
How can we get the benefits of IoC containers at a higher level - the services that we deploy into environments? Typical service tiers are implemented with a fronting load balancer that allocates …
The idea for lazybuilder came up during a recent coding dojo doing code kata. We were using Vim and a separate terminal to run the tests. Switching back and forth between two windows when trying to …
I am about to embark on a new Java project so I thought I would take a look at the current state of build tools for Java projects. First I thought I would draw up some assessment criteria to use as a …
I like to commit code frequently when working on a project. I also like to use the command line for building, testing and committing code. So I thought it would be nice to have a way to check the …