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by bbyars 5y ago
Well, I'll make no pretense that my answer here isn't commercially biased :) To the easy point first: you're right about providing oversight to juniors and mid-level devs. We generally avoid selling "staff augmentation,&
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by bbyars 5y ago
I find the bias claim an odd critique. I am of course biased -- in the appropriate context (e.g., architecture), bias is just another word for "judgment" -- but I don't think a claim of commercial bias is a strong argument. I
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by bbyars 5y ago
Good feedback. Most of the article is about integration inside an enterprise, although in the next installment I do talk about integration between organizations (hint: there are scenarios where I think low-code tools make sense there).
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by bbyars 11y ago
mountebank - the first open source tool to provide multi-protocol over the wire test doubles. http://www.mbtest.org/ https://github.com/bbyars/mountebank There are some excellent HTTP/S stubbing l
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by bbyars 12y ago
mountebank could support that through stub resolver injection ( http://www.mbtest.org/docs/api/injection ). Basically, in addition to returning a response, you can inject some javascript that would call back after
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by bbyars 12y ago
I think some level of integration testing is always a good thing, but spinning up all dependent services just so you can test yours leads to all kinds of problems, even in microservices. You end up with cascading dependencies. At scale, so
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by bbyars 14y ago
Understood, but it looks like the About ThoughtWorks section is just part of the press release template (look through the previous press releases and you see the same thing). I don't think our website team was prepared with a template for
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by bbyars 14y ago
Should we have said nothing? For the past several months Aaron has led the development of an online petition application working with several senior programmers at ThoughtWorks for a project we paid for ourselves, because we believed in hi