Unit Testing: Java AND JavaScript?

You know that thing where recruiters think that Java and JavaScript are probably the same thing? Well, they’re really not……

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Queue Processing Considerations

Overview We may choose to use a queue to link parts of our process together. There are a few reasons…

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Functional Decomposition

Why Do I Have To Have A Function? function giveBonus(currentYear, price) { if ((currentYear % 4 === 0) && price…

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React Version Stamping Recipe

My view on version numbering is that we should take the build time and git SHA of our code and…

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Serverless Spring is Quite Bouncy

I’ve written a couple of articles about AWS Lambda I showed how to use Hibernate in AWS Lambdas over on…

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The Chimera Function

I’ve written before about a function that essentially does two different versions of the same thing. It’s sort of cute to…

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Comments Suggesting Refactoring

Allow me to share with you one of my favourite refactorings. This comment in the code indicates a missing extract…

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Insane AWS Lambda Speed Up

What makes this post annoying is that we’ve suffered from a slow Lambda cold start for a very long time,…

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Oh TypeScript!!!

I’ve written before about the weirdness of TypeScript and instance functions of classes. To summarise. Let’s say we’re using map…

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