Agile

Let’s talk about communication for a bit. One of the most interesting roles I’ve had to fulfil the last couple of years has been the “Operations guy working as a part of a Development team”. This is a fascinating situation to find yourself in. Allow me to elaborate. Historically, Operations teams have been isolated from Development teams. Two separate organizational entities. The reasons for this were manyfold: Operations people were a scarce resource, they needed to accommodate vast amounts of work for numerous Development teams…

Alright, story time fellas. TL;DR; We’re working with Terraform, layering and workspaces. This makes the standard `terraform workspace select x` pretty cumbersome and dangerous. We wrote a Ruby wrapper using Test-Driven Development. It allows us to have a tested, maintainable and efficient solution to the aforementioned issue. You can find the actual project here: https://github.com/sebiwi/terraform-wrapper If you keep reading, we’re going to talk about scripting, Test-Driven Development, Terraform and Ruby.

This is another episode of the “The Wizard” series. If you haven’t read the previous episodes, you can find them here and here. You just don’t know how to do it. You’ve been thinking about it for a while too. It’s an important issue. The crafting of the spell is the most important part. The journey is usually more important than the destination itself. But you don’t feel like you are doing it right.

Auth0 is a SaaS platform that offers a set of tools to implement Authentication and Authorization for your web, mobile and legacy applications. This platform provides a great developer experience with a good documentation and innovative features, such as rules, JavaScript functions that are executed when a user authenticates to your application.

What purpose? How? When? Everything you need to know about BDD in one drawing.

Interview with Woody Zuill who will be teaching a Masterclass Mob programming with Octo Academy on May 28th.

For who? How many? When? Everything you need to know about User Stories in one drawing.

When? Why ? How? Everything you need to know about retrospectives in one drawing.

I have been working with Node.js for almost 6 years now (started back in 2012 with 0.6.10). During these years, co-workers have been asking me the same question over and over again: "What does your application look like?". It is now time to answer this question (or at least try to) !

See the previous episode here. He has questions. Nevertheless, he has not yet arrived. And you know you have answers. You interrupt your summoning, and sit down. You can continue in another moment. Everything happens for a reason. You just hope the reason is good. N appears right next to you. Hey, what’s up? I'm setting up the auto-scaling configuration of the new project. Nothing huge. Cool. I need some help. He has progressed immensely since the last time you saw him. People are starting to…