Prioritizing atomicity over consistency of CRUD
Today, I learnt about balancing and managing yet another engineering trade-off about APIs. To achieve a glory of REST, we would need to take a look at Richardson’s Maturity Model.
2017 – A year in review
I’ve had a few goals in mind that I wanted to accomplish and managed to complete them.
I wanted to contribute to the free software movement, contribute more to local tech community, learn more about software engineering, be more courageous…
Acceptance/integration tests only…?
I came into this thinking initially when I read the late Pieter Hintjen’s books. He was against numbers/coverage percentage and said that testing should be focused on APIs. This ensures that the components that works and ignores how individual components…
Reading Continuous Delivery
Just a quick update on what’s going on with life right now. My buddy Josh Long recently bought me tons of books for my reading during my free time whilst in army. (Thanks Josh) And I’ve started off with the…
Learning from speaking up
Over this short year, I’ve started sharing my knowledge and experiences at meetups and conferences. And I’m truly grateful for community inspirations and organizers for allowing me to gain such a unique experience. Over time, I learnt to overcome challenges…
Don’t focus on structures
This applies especially to projects that are just starting out.
Recently, I’ve been reading a little on domain driven design and building a small software project. Whenever I add certain specific object structures, it makes it harder to solve the…
Drop those stupid addresses smaller than /48
Two years ago, when I looked at IPv6 address announcements, I saw that our fellow Singapore major “traffic light” (red for Singtel, yellow for Mobile One, green for Starhub) Internet Service Providers (ISPs) announced lots of /64 subnets. This is…
Highly Dysfunctional Teams
Most of us are unfortunate people who work for/with/on companies, teams and projects that are highly dysfunctional. And by that I meant that working with a bunch of liars who pretends to work, pretends to pay and pretends that they’re…
HOW TO: Laravel testing on Gitlab CI with Docker
This is just a quick mini-post sharing some of the nice stuff that I’ve done with my co-worker, Kheng Hui, while I was working on an A*STAR project. The project used Laravel 5.3 with PHP 7 and MySQL, and needed…
