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Useful faker for rest apis.

Big news! If you aren’t using the Fish shell yet, what are you waiting for? It’s practically 100% compatible with bash and is 190x better in certain areas!

Good insights about becoming slave to rules without remembering why you’re do8ng it!

Just proves yet again that with the Unix command line you can do anything!

Heroku and Github free offers

How to build microservices on Heroku with Sinatra. Realy useful!

Detailed tips on what not to do when using rails with docker.

I’m back looking at statistics. This KS test is one of the basic statistical tests to compare two samples.

You know I’m into scalability right now. Here’s a short article with lots of the basics.

Everyone knows by now to never put secret keys in code, right?

I don’t quite understand this, nor have I tried it. But the claim is pretty amazing: run vocode on aws or azure, so your development environment is hosted there!

Two part series on using queues to communicate between services.

Back in September 2014, we were three years into our cloud cadence. And we were still running our testing the way we had tested before moving to the cloud. We were trying to do things faster, we were trying to optimize our automation, but we were struggling.

Another crazy useful tool for programmers.

If you’re getting a web api to work, this seems like a great alternative,

Interesting account of all the ways that SQL sucks and of course a proposed fix!

This one is pretty eclectic but if you find yourself writing a script in ruby or python or bash and you need to respond in the logic to what's going on in git, then you will find some very useful tips here.

Everything old is new again

Nice loggers