Adam Gordon Bell articles - 18 total
What's gotten better in programming languages
I have a question, especially for those who’ve been programming for some time or have experience with...
Full Backend Apps on AWS Lambda?
Is anyone hosting a full CRUD type app with routing and persisting as an AWS Lambda? And if so, how...
Do you use GRPC?
I'm writing an article about GRPC and protobufs. Here is the thing I'd like to know: What tools to...
Web3 will not replace Contract Law?
The law is code that is interpreted by Judges. My wife is a lawyer and tells me this. In this view,...
Knowing I'm Dumb Is the First Step
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is my favorite. This effect has been the darling of journalists who want...
Incident Management Metrics and Key Performance Indicators
In 2008, I got my first job at a software-as-a-service company. We built learning management software...
Property-Based Testing In Go
Have you ever wanted your unit tests written for you? Property based testing is a powerful testing...
Migrating Your Open Source Builds Off Of Travis CI
Starting in early 2021 and continuing to this day, a movement has been underway to migrate...
Idiots And Maniacs
Observability If you do software-as-a-service development and you have paying customers,...
Earthly Stickers And Hacktoberfest
Earthly is excited about Hacktoberfest and we are looking for contributors. Last year we saw lots of...
Markdown Linting
Many linting, code formatting, and static analysis tools exist for code. You can use eslint, gofmt,...
Python Concatenate Lists
You have two lists and you'd like to join them into a new list.
📚 Git Branching Explained With A Story 📚
👋 Hello 👋 I've been a professional software developer for 15 years now and I've had this...
Install matplotlib In A Docker Container
matplotlib is an excellent library for creating graphs and visualizations in Python. For example, I...
Beating TimSort at Merging
Here is a problem. You are tasked with improving the hot loop of a Python program: maybe it is an...
6 Command Line Tools for Productive Programmers
Lately, I've been doing a lot more things at the command line. I'm not a hard-core terminal guy -- I...
Unit Testing, But What is a Unit?
Unit tests are tests that are testing the smallest possible pieces of code in isolation. What then is a Unit?
How To Make Integration Tests Less Flaky
Unit tests are great. They are quick to run. They can help validate your work. They make future...