Scrum is an anti-pattern for Continuous Delivery
I’ve been saying that ‘Scrum is an anti-pattern for Continuous Delivery’ for awhile, including last week’s post which got a ‘huh?’ so here is my beef with Scrum. Actually my complaint isn’t with Scrum...
View ArticleSecure Communications with Selenium Grid 4
For the last couple years, my schtick has been that I don’t care about your scripts, just your infrastructure. I’m pretty sure in my talk at SeConf London I mused that it was bonkers that we had got...
View ArticleI was on the ‘Test Guild Automation Podcast’
Woke up this morning to a note from Joe that my episode of the Test Guild Automation Podcast is now live. It should come as no surprise that I talk about Selenium infrastructure with him. I felt like...
View ArticleSecure Node Registration in Selenium Grid 4
This is another in the small series of ‘things that have changed in Selenium Grid but I have not yet added to the official docs’ posts. When Selenium Grid was first created, the expectation was that...
View ArticleExperimenting where to put MySQL
At MobileXCo, our ‘app’ consists of 5 Laravel apps plus their supporting services like MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch and we have them all in a single Vagrant instance. VMs aren’t ‘cool’ anymore, but our...
View ArticleArchTech Newsletter
On the upside, my mail is getting nicely sorted. On the downside, its now sorted /and/ neglected. So this is one of, hopefully, many posts where I catch up on things. First up, is the ArchTech...
View ArticleLaravel News Catchup
Next up in my ‘eventually I’ll catch up on email’ queue is Laravel News, which anyone who deals with Laravel should be signed up to. Now, this folder has 180 things in it … but most were already read...
View ArticleEloquent Pagination and Map — not the bestest of friends
Eloquent can make things really easy. But sometimes that thing is shooting yourself in the foot with a performance problem. We recently released an API endpoint to a customer that was paginated. The...
View ArticleOOM with Laravel Excel
One of the nice things about PHP is you do not have to manage your process’s memory … except when you do. We have a job that runs once an hour and dumps a csv generated by Laravel Excel to a...
View ArticleUsing Elasticache Read Replicas with Laravel
One of the nice things about using Redis via Elasticache is that it gives you a Primary endpoint and a Reader endpoint which means we can split our load more easily (in addition to having the...
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