In today's fast-paced digital landscape, efficient API development is more critical than ever. GraphQL, a powerful query language developed by Facebook, has gained immense popularity for its ability to optimize…
Today Catcher's external modules 5.1.0 were finally released. Great news, everyone, as it adds a Selenium step for Frontend testing! What should a proper e2e test look like? Imagine you have a user service…
What is Catcher? It is an end-to-end test tool, specially designed to test systems containing many components. Initially developed as end-to-end microservices test tool it perfectly fits needs of data…
Imagine your project consists of 4 microservices (3 backends, 1 frontend). Yesterday you introduced several new features and made a release. Unfortunately, your users have just reported a bug. Some…
Imagine a typical situation – yesterday your devops engineer was eaten by a tiger. You a very sad because he didn’t finish the release system for your project. It contains…
I would like to introduce a new tool for end-to-end testing – Catcher. What is an e2e test? End-to-end test usually answers the questions like: “Was this user really created,…
The topic I’d like to reveal in this article may seem obvious, but I was surprised how many companies don’t follow this best practice. For impatient: Automate every action you’ve…
I’ve got a legacy service, written in Scala. Stack was: Play2, Scala, Slick, Postgres. Here is described why such technology stack is not the best option, what should be done…
Recently I’ve finished another back-end with GraphQL, but now on Python. In this article I would like to tell you about all difficulties I’ve faced and narrow places which can…
In this article I’ll describe you how to use GraphQL with Spring with this library. Full example is available here. Why annotations? From my point of view schema should not…
In this guide you’ll learn how to add deploy feature to the Erlang service. As a result you will get a real Erlang service, with logs in `/var/log/example_service`, systemd support…
This is step-by-step guide on how to create your Erlang service with the powerful Enot build system. Ensure you have Enot and Erlang installed locally. As a result you will…
Most of Erlang applications requires configuration variables. It can be: database credentials, metrics report hosts, some system limits and so on. Such variables can be set in application resource configuration…
Disclaimer: It is not about storing python packages in Artifactory. It is not about creating python packages in TravisCI and publishing them to Artifactory. In this article I’ll show you…
With this article, I would like to start a series on “Writing optimal and effective code in Erlang”. These articles are describing my point of view on the topic according…
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