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Archi & Techno

Seven shades of Git

Tl;dr Every time I stumble upon a Git article on the web, it always talks about how to use it, instead of why I should use it. Wait, isn’t that obvious? We use Git for versioning our code and sharing it with others. This is what Version Control Software (VCS) is used for, afterall.  Thinking like this, it is easy to believe that you can Google your way through Git mastery by searching how-to’s every time you’re stuck on a specific Git-related problem. At least…

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Data

Accelerating NiFi flows delivery: Part 1

While working in different contexts with NiFi, we have faced recurring challenges of development, maintenance and deployment optimization of NiFi flows. Whereas the basic approach suggests to manually duplicate pipelines for similar patterns, we believe that an automated approach is relevant for production purpose when it comes to implementing a significant amount of ingestion flows relying on a limited set of patterns or, more simply, when it comes to deploying these flows on different environments of execution. The ability to reach the right level of…

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Archi & Techno

Clean Node – Part 1

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) !

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Archi & Techno

TDD with Vue.js

Introduction: We've all heard of Vue.js, the last trendy JavaScript framework. Some have already played with it. But beyond the POC, it's time to gear up for real life Vue.js projects. And what's better than some TDD with Vue.js to achieve that? The point of this article is to share the basics to develop with Vue.js using TDD. To do so, we will use a very simple component based on Vue CLI default template. We will add to it a few WebFront basic features: two…

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Archi & Techno

Joyful wind of change: A software craftsmanship short tale

This is the story of a team. A bunch of 11 aspiring software craftsmen who decided to change things around and get their job done in a better way. The story takes place between the 30th and the 50th iteration of the development process of a software. This software is a website serving over 2 million regular users and providing legal information and services to 65 million French citizens. Chapter one: Start from what hurts and set a direction Leaky pipeline It is normal that…

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Consulting Chronicles

The new Web application architectures and their impacts for enterprises – Part 2

In the first part of this article, we talked about new front-end architectures, which consist of JavaScript Web applications using APIs provided by a back-end server: The new Web application architectures and their impacts for enterprises – Part 1. We saw that they recently emerged thanks to the increasing performance of browsers and the rise of industrialization tools for JavaScript development. In this second part, we will focus on: reasons why you should adopt these new architectures; opportunities they provide; impacts for enterprises.

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Consulting Chronicles

The new Web application architectures and their impacts for enterprises – Part 1

Web applications evolve. From static HTML sites first to AJAX applications more recently, through multiple dynamic technologies (PHP, ASP, Java, Ruby on Rails…), Web application architectures and their dedicated tools regularly experience major advancements and breakthroughs. For two years, we have seen a new wave of technologies coming, transforming the landscape of Web applications. Unlike RIA or AJAX before, there is no well defined name yet for this new trend. We will call it "MV* client-side architectures". Here is the main principle: the server no…

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Archi & Techno

Track your iOS application code quality using Sonar

This article is the iOS counterpart of Romain's recent article on tracking code quality with Sonar on Android. The problematic remains the same: quality is often overlooked for mobile Apps and the cost of setting up a proper quality tracking environment is usually deemed too high. This article will focus on showing that, while the iOS platform is not as tooled as Android, it's now fast and easy to track code quality on iOS projects. Even though this has been possible in the past mostly…

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Archi & Techno

iOS dev: How to get your code coverage right?

When I decided to tackle my preceding blog article on quality metrics for iOS, I wasn't prepared to spend that much time to get something robust and correct. The part on which I stumbled most was the code coverage, not because it's that difficult to make it work (there is plenty of resources on the Web) but because in all articles I have seen the solution was working but was not reporting accurate and useful metrics (I am sure I have missed some, sorry for…

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