KubeCon Europe 2021: Highlights #2
Stream of consciousness notes about my experience during KubeCon Europe 2021 and cool things I’ve learned or enjoyed.
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KubeCon Europe 2021: Highlights #1
Stream of consciousness notes about my experience during KubeCon Europe 2021 and cool things I’ve learned or enjoyed.
Software Engineering Problems Are Sociological
Peopleware has been published in 1987 and the reason that it is still as relevant today as it was back then is because of the premise of the book: software development projects fail because of inner failures within the teams that run those projects.
What If Kotest Had HTML Reports?
Another story about a small contribution to open-source. This time, I’ve opened a pull request in Kotest to implement generation of HTML reports.
Understanding Differences Between List and MutableList in Kotlin
A potentially exaggerated exploration of how Kotlin implements List and MutableList, featuring Kotlin’s source code examples.
What's the Difference Between val and var in Kotlin?
val and var forced a mentally shift on me, coming from a background of loosely typed languages, due to what they entails. What is really the difference between val and var?
DevOps Principles of Flow: Deliver Faster
A summary of the principles behind increasing flow of work, along with some of its practices, such as automating infrastructure, automated testing, deployment pipelines and continuous integration.
How To Pass Multiple Parameters To Same Value in Query Strings
A quick exploration of RFC3986 (“Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax”) Section 3.4.
Don't Abuse Kotlin Scope Functions as an If-Else for Null Checks
An exploration behind the reasons why we shouldn’t use statements based on scope function, in particular let, as if-else checks to validate nullability in Kotlin.
Using require and check Functions in Kotlin
A quick introduction to require and check functions, as well as examples of how and why we should use them.