Anjali Munasinghe on Atomic Spin

10 Lessons Learned from 4 Weeks of Updating Bootstrap

Another developer and I spent about 345 hours updating the Bootstrap and React Bootstrap versions on two web apps. Here's what I learned.

AWS

Use AWS API Gateway for External Access to an Existing Web App

Learn how to use AWS API Gateway with OpenAPI to quickly add support for external API access to an existing web app.

Project & Team Management

Consultants: Level Up Your Client Dev Team

Helping client developers build strong development skills is critical for ensuring the long term sustainability of the project.

Detecting Errors in Entity Framework Code First Migrations

Add a 'validate migrations' step to your test pipeline to detect and prevent subtle errors in EF Code First migrations.

Exploratory Testing

Setting Up (and Tearing Down) Unit Tests for an Entity Framework Core Application

Resolve Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.DbUpdateException and System.TimeoutException in Entity Framework unit testing.

Python

How I Use Pytest Fixtures for System Testing

You can use the powerful Pytest fixture system to easily wire up some essential tasks for system testing your application.

Development Practices

A Checklist for Documenting Your Public-Facing API

Here, I'll walk through the different forms of public-facing API documentation and developer tools that we added at different phases of the project.

Python

Using a Python HTTP Proxy Server to Simulate an API Gateway

In this tutorial, we'll create a simple HTTP Proxy Server in Python that handles the request forwarding and transformations provided by an API Gateway.

Web Apps

Understanding and Setting Up the Azure Resources to Deploy a Containerized Web App

Here, I'll provide a high-level explanation of the Azure resources our project team created in order to deploy a containerized web application.

Personal Optimization

Software Developer Character Stats – Rank Up!

To reduce uncertainty about your growth as a software developer, identify different skill areas and how you can level up in each of them.

Web Apps

Running End to End Cypress in a Google Cloud Build Pipeline

Here's the next installment of our series on adding end-to-end Cypress to a web app, discussing how we ran tests in a Google Cloud Build test pipeline.

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