Have we just replaced `Dependency Hell` for a `Hell of a lot of Dependency`?

While recently working with a frontend engineer it struck me that the most basic of applications have massive amounts of dependencies. Specifically React configured as…

A prime example of why automated testing works…

Today I got to a change request that read something to the order of ‘move all this code from place X, the new namespace Y.…

Is the argument of ‘application portability’ a valid one for containerization?

Preface: I am a huge supporter of containerized distributed applications. It give me all sorts of nerd good feelings. One of the biggest arguments for…

Some news from AWS…

…as of now(ish) all AWS accounts get a rolling 7 days of CloutTrail functionality as part of the free tier! While not helpful to business…

Out of the box performance: PHP + PDO + MariaDB

Backstory: Another week, another evening at the Pub with some friends and colleges. Somehow or the other we got on the topic of database insert performance…

AWS Lambda and automated testing (pt2).

Opps; forgot to circle back to this… So we finally got it working. Local and Jenkins automated testing that couples with Lambda for media processing!…

PSA: Do not use Codeception DB and Yii2 modules together…

…specifically the Yii2: ORM and DB module and transactions. The Yii2 $I->seeRecord() & related methods do NOT use the same connection ID as the DB…

Another month, another set of continuing education courses.

A corner stone of the IT/Dev career field is this: ‘never stop learning’. I like to expand on it and include ‘When you stop learning,…