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Kubernetes: Dip your toes in this
Min Kim — January 29, 2021
Kubernetes is on the rise and having it in your toolkit can get you a long way. In this article, Min shows us how to set up a MicoK8s in your local machine.
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The context dilemma: design tokens and components
Varya Stepanova — January 15, 2021
Design tokens are used to keep a consistent look across an entire system. How do you name them semantically if they have to make sense everywhere but also respond to the inner logic of individual components which are independently developed?
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Renaming `main` with purpose
Jorge Lainfiesta — December 11, 2020
As generic default branch names like `master` for Git repos have gone out of fashion, possibilities emerge for more effective and informative naming conventions. Learn about the branch naming strategy Frontside uses for our Open Source libraries and how we name app project branches.
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MirageJS: Choosing the right Serializer
Min Kim — August 31, 2020
MirageJS ships with four out-of-the-box serializers. In this blog post, we overview the basics of serializers in Mirage, and examine in detail the specific format of each JSON API, Active Model, Rest and generic serializers.
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Beyond Mocking: Decoupling teams through Simulation
Charles Lowell and Jorge Lainfiesta — July 29, 2020
Decoupling front-end and mobile teams from the back-end makes organizations more effective. In this article we explain why using simulation is an ideal strategy for this purpose, and present important considerations for adopting such practices.
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The Lesson of BigTest Interactors: never write a flaky test again!
Jonas Niklas — July 16, 2020
To prevent flaky tests, BigTest introduces the Interactor API, designed around the lessons learned in Capybara. This article introduces the benefits of Interactors in BigTest and how to use them to write reliable tests.
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Github Actions: a deep dive into pull_request
Min Kim — May 26, 2020
We have put together specific behaviors and information that you’ll need to use pull_request as a trigger for your Github Actions workflow.
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The Triple Threat to Testing — Part 2: Reliability
Charles Lowell, Jeffrey Cherewaty, Jorge Lainfiesta, Robbie Pitts, Taras Mankovski — April 30, 2020
Flakiness: one of the biggest pain-points of any test suite. From app complexity to incident management, we explore some of the most common causes of unreliable tests.
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