David Blooman

Why spec-driven development is useful to product managers, designers, and engineers, especially when AI can write the code.

Exploring a subtle bug in Golang's pgx v5 library that led to silent data corruption due to zero values.

Diagnosing performance issues in software can often feel more like detective work than engineering.

Terraform has a lot of power, but often even heavy users of terraform miss some of the simple things that can make managing infrastructure easier than vendor...

It's a question that gets asked with quite a lot of answers, Docker, Ansible, CodeDeploy, Chef, the list goes on.

I recently talked at the Serverless London meetup https://www.meetup.com/Serverless London/events/236664340/ , I was asked about how we do cross AWS account...

It's pretty common that when you have no idea what you are doing, you want things to "just work".

Docker is pretty cool, lots of tools, big community and it goes quite nicely with Golang Go microservices.

We have a familiar story at FundApps https://www.fundapps.co/ , big monolith, trying to break into microservices, same old same old.

CloudFormation, the AWS specific infrastructure as code service, I don't use it anymore....but maybe I should.

Consul https://www.consul.io/ is a tool I've been using the last few months to get a handle on our expanding platform.

AWS Lambda https://aws.amazon.com/Lambda/details/ has been around for a couple of years, in that time the way in which you create and deploy functions has be...

Amazon recently announced its new load balancer, the Application Load Balancer ALB https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new aws application load balancer/ .

Sixteen days ago, I quit my job.

Lambda http://aws.amazon.com/lambda/ by Amazon http://aws.amazon.com/ was a service launched last year and was in preview until a few weeks ago https://aws.a...

Gatling http://gatling.io/ is an open source, Scala based load testing tool.

We had a huge bug on the live site, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news http://www.bbc.co.uk/arabic , the navigation for our Asia edition was broken.

I recently setup a Nginx proxy server on a UK based provider, this is to test UK centric features of the BBC News website.

Sometimes you need to show someone something on a phone, words are just not good enough.

I recently got Battlefield 4, an intensive first person shooter with high detail graphics and enough shooting to satisfy any teenage angst.

Today we are announcing the release of a front end regression testing tool called Wraith .

In this post, i will talk about how to view network traffic and the HAR HTTP Archive file.

We thought we'd share some information on our testing process. & 13;