Software Development Thoughts

A standard set of HTTP endpoints a service should expose for the infrastructure that runs it.

Some notes from my recent battles with AWS NLBs & the Ingress-Nginx Controller.

Couple of quick notes on working with Clikt, the Kotlin CLI library: Using Clikt as a pure parser If all you want is to turn command line arguments into a data class, without using the Clikt Command abstraction, you can do it as follows: import com.github…

Sam Cooper showed me on the Kotlin Slack that you can create an immutable-ish class that is both a Map<String, T> and has val properties representing compile time enforced keys on that Map, and without much duplication.

Quick notes on integrating GitHub Actions with AWS.

Recently I have had cause to run tests in Kubernetes via a GitHub Action, and it’s a huge pain so capturing it here.

I’ve been mulling some agile ideas.

TLDR: if capabilities are kept in separate modules it mitigates the risk of a capability being compromised.

I’ve been trying to come up with a good caching strategy for a CI build, and with the new cache@v2 action I think I’ve worked it out.

I recently found myself wanting intersection types in Kotlin.