I run my tests against a staging environment. The entire purpose of the library is to create resources, so all successful tests leave behind new ‘things’ in that staging environment. I’m not the only person who’s testing against that environment, so all sorts of test entries accumulate.

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Charisma Testing was initially proposed by Rikard Edgren in the Test Eye as a way to test whether a product has the it factor. The idea is that rather than testing to check for functionality or for negatives (bugs) you instead run sessions to explicitly call out the good ...

Lighthouse is a tremendous tool for auditing the performance and usability of websites. Rather than having to perform these audits manually, it’s helpful to be able to plug it into your CI pipeline. This post illustrates how to integrate Lighthouse into a GitHub Actions w...

Accessibility is often overlooked or bolted on to the end of a project from the experiences in Todd’s career in web development and design. The case for accessibility is something we as people who create and build things for the web should be implementing and advocating for from the inception of a project to the release or handoff and beyond.

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Effective leadership is important because it improves your team’s productivity and morale. It goes without saying that every workplace needs to invest in educating its leaders on the qualities and practices of effective leadership. However, this is rarely a reality, especially for startups with limited resources.

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The point of OKRs is that you have around three to five. And they have a self-only factor in how they cascade spread across the organization.

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In this article, you’re going to learn what step-up authentication is and how you can use step-up authentication in a stateless way within your APIs using OAuth and client applications using OpenID Connect.

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Sure would be nice to get to a point where companies didn’t really care which method you used, because it’s probably all built with one technology anyway and is fully capable of anything the device can do.

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What’s in a test? GOV.UK is an ecosystem of 70 applications and components, which are mostly written in Ruby on Rails. For each app, we have tests to make sure it works in isolation: unit, integration and UI tests - these test the behaviour of the app and rely on simulate...

Big fan of Cloudflare, they continue to enhance features on the free tier.

On the Cloudflare Email Routing tab you’ll also see the Activity Log, where you can drill deeper into specific behaviors. These logs show you details about the email messages that reached one of the custom addresses you have configured on your Cloudflare zone

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The objectives in OKRs refer to the ‘what’: inspiring and ambitious yet realistic goals that are connected to delivering business value. For example, one of fintech N26’s objectives is to transform retail banking on a global scale, while the aim of retail company Zalando ...

This looks pretty cool and something I’ll be sharing with my peers.

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The questions focus on winning traits of high-performing, value-creating Scrum Teams. They range from the Definition of Done to technical excellence to product discovery to collaboratively creating an actionable Product Backlog.

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Runbooks are best defined as a tactical method of completing a task–the series of steps needed to complete some process for a known end-goal. Examples include “Restarting the web services on frontend servers” to “Deploying the newest build of staging application”. A pl...

This post published during the beta phase talks about rough edges and and I’ve tried setting this up. But the three address limit is the blocker for me. I use over 125 different addresses. I could consolidate down I guess, but I shouldn’t need to. Plus aliasing or entire do...

Creating your runbooks is only the first step. Automating runbook execution to run based on an alarm, without human intervention, is the real goal.

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Let Children Make Choices. “Are you in the mood for your gray trousers, or your red trousers?” Show Respect for a Child’s Struggle. “A jar can be hard to open. Sometimes it helps if you tap the lid with a spoon.” Don’t Ask Too Many Questions. “Glad to see you. Welcome...

team members engage in participative leadership, use minimal process, collaborate well, respect each other and their differences, trust one another, work with urgency and focus, manage conflict in a healthy manner, share a high sense of morale, and succeed or fail as a team

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A cyber crisis tabletop exercise, also known as cyber incident response test, helps organizations to identify different risk scenarios and prepare them for cyber threats. It’s an activity to evaluate whether your organization’s incident response plan works effectively in ...

Facilitating collaborative meetings is a critical skill for leaders. Great facilitators create engaging discussions that have high attendance and prevents boredom. Consistently achieving these goals as a facilitator takes time. Each discussion will put your decision making, time management, and leadership skills to the test.

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IAM only works for applications your IT department knows about, so watch for “shadow IT” programs installed or written by users that leave a security gap.

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recommendation of abandoning the implicit flow in browser-based applications, e.g. Single Page Applications (SPAs), in favor of the authorization code flow with Proof-Key for Code Exchange (PKCE)

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This entry discusses some of the high-level concepts that are relevant to modern software architecture at a general level, namely monoliths vs. microservices, and multitenancy.

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It’s much easier and cheaper to put them in place if we shift left. What does that mean for an organization? It means deploying these controls, the policies using as-code, and constructs like Terraform. In other words, think about, plan, and build these layered defenses w...

I actually prefer half-day stories. It takes discipline, practice and a focus on refining and planning the work to be done. Focus on thinking slow, but coding fast. Story sizes should average as close to one day as possible. If they don’t your Agile project is going to ...

a primer on Clean Architecture, which is a modern, scalable formal software architecture which is appropriate for modern web applications. Next, I discuss how Domain-Driven Design fits into this picture, and how DDD concepts dovetail nicely into Clean Architecture, produc...

Let people go when they are both confident and competent. If they know what they’re doing then you can set goals and get out of the way. Coach people when they are competent but lack confidence. If they’re good but they don’t know it then support them in finding the answers...

Heating or eating, Brexit means Brexit, it’s a well known tactic for politicians too. Catchy names are very powerful and easy to remember even if the original underlying proposal gets miscontrued of manipulated. The second most impactful book I’ve read is George Lakoff’s...

Interesting view on using an iPad for work, I think I could be pretty close to this as Engineering Manager. 90% of my day is spent in Teams, Slack, GitHub, or in the browser. There were very few things I couldn’t do on my iPad, even without a lot of preparation work. Som...

In automated software testing, the default approach among developers is bottom up, and the aims are high coverage and working software. This approach misunderstands the goal of testing and often fails to deliver on the goal of reliably shipping working software. The idea ...