This post discusses best practices for automated testing in software engineering, including unit tests and integration tests for databases, APIs, and emulators. It also covers end-to-end tests using tools like Cypress, Appium, Postman, and more. Additionally, it highlights the importance of environm.. read more  

DynamoDB starts to grumble when a single partition gets hit with more than 1,000WCU. To dodge throttling, writes need to fan out across shards. Recommended move: start with10 logical shards. WatchCloudWatch metrics. DialNup or down. Letburstandadaptive capacitybuy you breathing room - untilSplit-for.. read more  

A fresh blog post dives into how to get devs pulling their weight ontest automation- not as extra credit, but as part of shipping code. The playbook: tie automation work straight to thedefinition of done, clear up who owns what, and stop pretending delivery pressure is a mystery. The big idea? Most .. read more  

At Trendyol, they runover 2,000 iOSpipelines daily across130 Mac machines, executing50,000+ unit testsand10,000+ UI testsfor their iOS apps. The team initiated a mobile CI transformation to address the challenges of scale and performance as their team grew and AI usage increased. They built a macOS .. read more  

Kubernetes 1.33 and 1.34 takein-place Pod resource updatesfrom beta to battle-ready. You can now tweak CPU and memory on the fly - no Pod restarts needed. It's on by default. What’s new: memory downsizing with guardrails, kubelet metrics that actually tell you what’s going on, and smarter retries th.. read more  

HAProxy just droppedUniversal Mesh, a fresh spin on service mesh design. Forget the per-service sidecars - this model plants high-speed gateways at the network edges instead. Result? Lighter by 30–50% on resources, easier to upgrade, and way less hassle routing traffic across Kubernetes, VMs, and cl.. read more  

TheIngress NGINX projectis riding off into the sunset by March 2026. Time to pick a new horse. One strong contender: theHAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller. It matches feature-for-feature, comes with deeper observability, and reloads configs without taking your cluster offline. HAProxy’s not stopp.. read more  

Most cloud-native tools obsess over clusters. Not developers. That means poor support for things like promoting code between environments or deploying by feature - not just by repo. The author pushes for a better way: platforms that hide the Kubernetes mess and tame CI/CD. Think feature-driven deplo.. read more  

Hexmos droppedudwall, a declarative firewall manager that finally makesUFWandDockerplay nice. Docker’s notorious for bulldozing past UFW rules via iptables. udwall patches that hole. It syncs rules across both, auto-reconciles changes, backs up configs, and plugs cleanly intoAnsible. No more duct-ta.. read more  

Amazon Prime Video ditched its pricey microservices maze and rebuilt as asingle-process monolith, cutting ops costs by 90%. No big press release. Just results. Same move from Twilio Segment. And Shopify. Both pulled their tangled systems back intomodular monoliths- cleaner, faster, easier to test, a.. read more