A Backup Is More Convincing After You Have Restored It
A successful backup job tells you something useful. Restoring it and running the application tells you considerably more.
Engineering notes from the sharp end
Practical writing about software, systems, delivery, and things that behave strangely under pressure.
wade womersley – york based software engineer I write the way I work: direct, useful, and more interested in what holds up in production than what sounds clever on a slide.
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Two people can save valid changes and still overwrite each other. A version check gives the application a chance to catch it.
Programming
The dependencies in a CI workflow deserve the same attention as the packages in the application it builds.
Random Stuff
A sofa improves when one of its residents is a slightly ridiculous plush animal.
Programming
A permission request makes more sense when the user has just chosen the feature that needs it.
Films, Random Stuff
Give me a strange little creature in the background of a space film and I am immediately willing to believe it has a very busy life.
Programming
Moving a failed message to a dead-letter queue can keep a worker from repeatedly tripping over the same problem.
Random Stuff
A train window can make perfectly ordinary countryside feel like the opening of a film.
Programming
Catching every exception around a coroutine can accidentally turn cancellation into an ordinary application failure.
Programming
An HTTP 304 response is supposed to arrive without a response body.