As our company grew, the volume of discourse on Slack became unwieldy. Channels propagated and we were faced with Slack bloat. But the problem was not just one of noise, it was one of uncertainty.
Our system is made up of a collection of services engaging in sophisticated interactions. It became obvious early on that testing manually would only get us so far. Here are some insights that have proven useful as we transitioned from a mostly manual work mode to a mostly automated one in QA testing.
In Python, mocking is accomplished through the unittest.mock module. The module contains a number of useful classes and functions, the most important of which are the patch function (as decorator and context manager) and the MagicMock class. Mocking in Python is largely accomplished through the use of these two powerful components.
Lambda is the first service offering to illustrate that the cloud is a global, general-purpose computer with a particular architecture. You gain near infinite scalability and very low cost compared to compute instances or containers.
Despite obstacles and hesitations, the benefits of functional programming are immense. The key is this: language guarantees make code more robust, help to mitigate errors, and eliminate entire classes of bugs.
We're excited to announce that we've closed a $20M C Round and that we're consolidating our branding. Our company, like the cloud OS we're developing, is now called Fugue.
How do you safely and securely distribute secrets to your servers?
In which the team reminisces about the cool technological holiday gifts of yesteryear...
Jared's article in this month's issue of PragPub, The Pragmatic Bookshelf's magazine affiliation, is a helpful read if you're interested in functional programming and Haskell in particular.
We are thankful for so many things: our investors, our board, our team members, our families, our health... and great software.