Over a sufficiently long time span, the number of Kubernetes clusters approach (and exceeds!) n where n = the number of things an engineers can reasonably grok. ArgoCD helps reduce cognitive load through a hub-and-spokes model. Sooner or later a production incident breaks the proverbial camel's back and someone
ArgoCD is a lot of things: a way to manage Kubernetes manifests with a GitOps philosophy, an observability portal, a tool in the larger Argo* ecosystem. But for our developers? The features they love the most are diffs and manifests. Diffs help developers have confidence in their changes. Manifests allow
So it's that time of year again: the year's winding to an end, I've got some PTO days to burn, and my home lab looks something like this: So in the best spirit of end-of-year reorganization, I spent some time reorganizing and rebuilding my
Welcome back to our guide to building a mobile automation lab (on the relatively cheap)! In this post, we’ll set up Appium on the new Mac Mini’s. If you haven’t gotten a chance, check out Part I of the series for more information about our architecture and
My raison d’être in the workplace is ensuring the continuity of our systems and functionality, come what may: crazy requirements, infrastructure failures, and general oddness. If I do my job right, everyone (from the CEO down) gets to sleep well at night, go on vacations with their family, and
There’s lots of reasons to automate end-to-end mobile testing. You’ll find many companies selling cloud solutions. So why did we decide to build a device lab in this day and age? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ * Mobile applications have physical experiences — We interact with phones in a different way than we use