Jon Lauridsen articles - 34 total
Perfect Elixir: Testing Shell Scripts with Bats
Automated testing is crucial for reliable software development, yet shell scripts are frequently left...
Perfect Elixir: Automating Tests in Elixir Projects
How do we write fast, reliable tests in Elixir? How do we keep modules decoupled and easy to test?...
Perfect Elixir: Simplifying Elixir Developer Onboarding
Onboarding can be a costly but hidden drag on a team — not just in raw setup time, but also in how...
Perfect Elixir: Streamlining Development Workflows
Today we'll define and implement our daily development workflows. We'll begin by identifying what...
Perfect Elixir: Building a Basic Elixir Web App
Today we'll change gears a bit: It's time to make a web app. We'll need a project to work on for...
Perfect Elixir: Setting Up an Elixir Dev Environment
We need Erlang and Elixir installed, which might sound simple, but there are trade-offs to consider...
Exploring the Perfect Elixir Setup
In this series, we'll explore the most effective ways of working with Elixir projects, examining the...
Event-Driven Architecture: A Focused Primer
Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is a design pattern that helps systems remain resilient and scalable...
ElixirScript, a Github Action to run Elixir code in workflow steps
Hi everyone, I’ve released this new GitHub Actions called Elixir Script, because I wanted a way to...
Effectively Handling MacOS Screenshots
(cover image: midjourney) Screenshots can get messy: If you copy to clipboard then you first have to...
Don’t Make Conditional GitHub Actions Jobs
(cover image: midjourney) A conditional GitHub Actions job can look something like this: jobs: ...
Are You Listening to Your Code? Here's Why You Should Start
In the rush to deliver features and meet tight deadlines, many programmers move from one story to the...
Practical Guide to Trunk Based Development
(Image credit: midjourney) Alright, last time we talked about the theory behind Trunk Based...
Beginners Intro to Trunk Based Development
(Image credit: midjourney) Trunk What? Trunk Based Development (TBD) is committing small,...
Accelerate's "Software Delivery Performance" model & DORA metrics
Welcome back, in the previous article we talked about why Accelerate's research matter and why we...
An introduction to "Accelerate", the scientific analysis of software delivery
In 2018 Dr. Nicole Forsgren et al. introduced Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps, a...
Why committing straight to main/master must be allowed
GitHub allows us to lock down who gets to commit to branches, and one easy way of using that is...
How to sanely configure your application
There is an awkward friction in frameworks that offer to start your application, like rails serve and...
To commit editor files or not?
.idea, .vscode, vimdc, lots of editors produce editor files, but… should you commit them? Or is it...
Dare to discuss the Big Ideas
All teams I've been in and talked to have thrown around Big Ideas that would do something amazing for...
Do one thing at a time
You ever been on teams that work on a lot of projects at once? I've found it very commonplace, and...
Database constraints considered harmful?
In relational databases it's common practice to create constraints to lock down the data and its...
Don't backlog your bugs
It's an unproductive anti-pattern to put bugs into the backlog, where they just grow old and fester....
Estimates don't work, but there's a simpler way
I see and hear of many teams that still do estimates, but estimates are a wasteful activity compared...
Simple, specific ways to improve as a team
Teams should always seek to get better, but there are infinite ways of (trying to) improve. It can...
Exploring the Monorepo #5: Perfect Docker
Hi, let's start with a recap: We have a pnpm-based monorepo that contains two apps and three...
Exploring the Monorepo #4: Adding Docker + CI
Table Of Contents What to Consider? Packaging With Docker Pipelining The Bad We left...
Exploring the Monorepo #3: Build the source
Table Of Contents Make it build Does it work? The Good The Bad What can we solve with...
Exploring the Monorepo #2: Workspaces (npm, pnpm)
Table Of Contents npm pnpm Conclusion Okay so attempt #1 didn't quite work, but all the...
Exploring the Monorepo #1: Can't we just make project-folders?
Table Of Contents The Good The Bad Why don't we script that? What about...