Either Types as an alternative to throwing exceptions in Kotlin

2020/01/09KotlinFunctional ProgrammingArrowExceptionsEither

Using Either is an alternative to exceptions to make your code more explicit about errors. Easy and convenient with Kotlin and Arrow

Comparing Traefik2 with Traefik

2019/12/15TraefikDevOpsLoad BalancingSSL TerminationmTLSSmart Routing

Traefik2 is a significant change from Traefik. How do the both compare? I have ported an old setup to the new format

Fail a test in Jest if an unexpected network request happens

2019/12/08ReactJestTestingreact-testing-librarycreate-react-appaxios

Automatically failing unit tests with Jest in React when network requests are made will make your tests more reliable and easier to maintain

How to split the deployment of your front end and back end with the help of Consumer Driven Contract Testing

2019/11/12Contract TestingPactContinuous DeliveryJestCircleCI

By using contract tests, you can build more independent frontend and backends that can be deployed separately. That way, you can get faster feedback

Kotlin tapas: Get a taste of Kotlin

2019/10/27KotlinTapasTesting

A bunch of bite sized tapas to get a first taste of Kotlin

Descriptive assertions in Kotlin for clearer tests

2019/09/28KotlinTestingStrikt

Readable assertions will make your Kotlin code a lot more self describing and your tests more maintainable

How to automate REST API end-to-end tests in a CI environment with Postman and Newman

2019/08/19RESTe2ePostmannewman

Postman is a great tool to explore REST APIs. You can build requests and try them out to get quick feedback. Then you can persist them as collections to make sure that the knowledge doesn't get lost.

Custom Components in Formik

2019/08/15ReactFormikreact-hooks

Formik is the new cool kid on the block for forms in react. Here is how to build custom input elements on top

Dockerizing a JVM app with CircleCI

2019/07/15DockerCircleCIJVMServerSpec

Build a pipeline with CircleCI to dockerize a JVM app step by step. Includes linting, tests, creating and pushing the image

Painless JSON with Kotlin and jackson

2019/06/16KotlinJSONJacksonRESTSpringBoot

Backends that provide a REST API or consume other APIs have to deal with JSON quite a lot. Luckily combining Kotlin and Jackson makes it a breeze