MeStrak

MeStrak @mestrak

About: Senior egineering manager using Next.js, Salesforce and GraphQL | Open source advocate | Donkey Kong arcade machine owner | General geek

Location:
Cambridge, UK
Joined:
Dec 20, 2019

MeStrak
articles - 7 total

Pop culture design patterns: creational

During a recent interview I asked the candidate about their understanding of design patterns. I was...

Learn More 7 2Oct 17 '21

Testing secure APIs by mocking JWT and JWKS

Recently, I've had some time to get back to my pet project Catkin. I'm working on gradually improving...

Learn More 12 1Jan 4 '21

Semantic release with Python, Poetry & GitHub Actions 🚀

I'm planning to add a few features to Dr. Sven thanks to some interest from my colleagues. Before doi...

Learn More 9 0Dec 20 '20

Guidebook: fostering open source in a large corporate environment (part 2 of 2)

In part one we looked at some of the simple steps that you can take to help your enterprise support o...

Learn More 5 0Dec 20 '20

Guidebook: fostering open source in a large corporate environment (part 1 of 2)

In this series I'll present a guide on how to help your company use open source software responsibly...

Learn More 8 0Oct 11 '20

Introducing Dr. Sven: open source data health checker

A brief look at how to use Dr. Sven to check that your data is healthy, according to business rules that you define.

Learn More 7 0Aug 19 '20

Ongoing notes on things I did to get WSL2 to work

In the interests of productivity, and many issues trying to get dev stuff to work on my Windows works...

Learn More 14 0Jul 14 '20