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Ask Miss O11y: My Manager Won’t Let Me Spend Any Time Instrumenting My Code

Honeycomb

For years, engineers fought the battle of getting time for unit tests and integration tests, and eventually prevailed. NET, Java, and Python all have this feature), or even bringing data in from your infrastructure outputs like Kubernetes or load balancers. Here’s a simple test using ODD and TDD together.

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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

She is responsible for R&D (both product management & engineering) for GemFire and associated Pivotal Cloud Cache product. Maria Gutierrez is a VP of Engineering and an excellent example of Scotland’s commitment to employing women in the STEM sector. From 2013 to 2016, Culver worked as an engineer at Dropbox.

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Do I really need Kubernetes?

CircleCI

Along with modern continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools, Kubernetes provides the basis for scaling these apps without huge engineering effort. For instance, you can scale a monolith by deploying multiple instances with a load balancer that supports affinity flags. And it is a great tool.