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Software Craftsmanship and OPS scripting: a love story

Publication date 16/08/2018 by Sebastian Caceres, Tanguy Patte

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.

Methodology

Accelerate Innovations by Blending the Best Practices of Three Models of Innovation Diffusion (Gartner, G.A. Moore , C. Christensen)

Publication date 02/08/2018 by Sylvain Fagnent

Introduction When building innovative products we draw upon several models to help us follow the cycles and gauge products’ maturity levels (technological, market and use). We noticed that 3 complementary, superimposable models converge and together provide a coherence that makes the most of the various recommendations and best practices of each innovation strategy. The 3 diffusion of innovation models we’ve identified are: The Gartner model and “hype cycle” Geoffrey A. Moore’s Diffusion of Innovation model The “Innovating over the Horizon” model, popularized by Clayton Christensen

Archi & Techno

Ansible Container: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Publication date 20/06/2018 by Sebastian Caceres, Adrien Besnard

Alright, here’s what’s up: TL;DR We tried Ansible Container. We’d rather keep using Dockerfiles for image builds: creating a Docker image and provisioning servers with Ansible are two very different things. Different in terms of lifecycle, philosophy and workflow. So different, that in our opinion, they’re not compatible. Wanna know why? Read on. Disclaimer: While the current status of Ansible Container is not clear, it seems that during the writing of this article the tool has been deprecated: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-container/commit/2fa778a7c8d1699672314ac0b89c53554f435cb7. After the limitations we noticed, we…

Change Management

My 3 leadership learnings from learning to code

Publication date 13/06/2018 by Ngoc Quê-Minh Vo

[Or what I did learn from javascript 101, even though I am not a software engineer] When I was young(er), I’ve started my career in multinational corporations. One of the key things which struck me at that time was that, even though each of this company was quite hierarchical, every manager must, to evolve in their career, have made a compulsory training on the field. In other words, whether you are a finance or marketing director, you have to regularly play the role of a sales…

Archi & Techno

The Wizard: Scenarios

Publication date 07/06/2018 by Sebastian Caceres

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.

Software Craftsmanship

How to do TDD on Auth0 scripts

Publication date 01/06/2018 by Laurent Dutheil

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.

Big Data

Confluent.io: Part 3 – STREAM PROCESSING

Publication date 07/05/2018 by Arthur Baudry

This article is part of a series designed to demonstrate the setup and use of the Confluent Platform. In this series, our goal is to build an end to end data processing pipeline with Confluent. Disclaimer: While knowledge of Kafka internals is not required to understand this series, it can sometimes help clear out some parts of the articles. In the previous articles, we set up two topics, one to publish the input data coming from PostgreSQL and another one to push the data from…

Big Data

Confluent.io – Part 2: BUILD A STREAMING PIPELINE

Publication date 01/05/2018 by Arthur Baudry

This article is part of a series designed to demonstrate the setup and use of the Confluent Platform. In this series, our goal is to build an end to end data processing pipeline with Confluent. Disclaimer: While knowledge of Kafka internals is not required to understand this series, it can sometimes help clear out some parts of the articles. BASICS If you have gone through every step from our previous article, you should have a Kafka broker running along with Zookeeper and Control Center. Now,…

Big Data

Confluent.io – Part 1: INTRODUCTION & SETUP

Publication date 20/04/2018 by Arthur Baudry

This article is part of a series designed to demonstrate the setup and use of the Confluent Platform. In this series, our goal is to build an end to end data processing pipeline with Confluent. Disclaimer: While knowledge of Kafka internals is not required to understand this series, it can sometimes help clear out some parts of the articles. INTRODUCTION Let’s begin with these two questions: what is the Confluent Platform and why use it? What? The Confluent Platform is a data streaming platform built…

Archi & Techno

JenkinsX – new Kubernetes dream? Part 2 [Technical!]

Publication date 19/04/2018 by Mykyta Shulhin, Ilya Trofimov

Alright, stranger! As we pass through the stage of basic Jenkins X overview in our first part , we are ready to go to infinity and go beyond the general application of Kubernetes environment. In this article, we are going to step further into Jenkins X world, by going through a step-by-step setup process and creating quickstart project. Furthermore, you will get an overview of what is going on in the background, detailed description of Git flow, release management and magic behind deployment automation. Please,…