Mark Seemann on “When To Refactor“
“… moving in small steps is a skill that must be explicitly learned. This may seem obvious once posited, but it may also be helpful to explicitly state it.”
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Jesse Warden Interview on Coder Conversations Podcast
Kevin, Raja, and Terrance invited me to the Coder Conversations podcast and ask me super hard questions about some of the basics of why I do what I do, what I’ve learned over the years in software, and my various challenges and fears.
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Trunk Based CICD Depending on Feature Branches
One hard thing about trunk based development is when you depend on teams that utilize feature branching and are ok with big bang releases instead of Continuous Delivery.
If every commit goes to main and then production, you can’t “hold off” releasing for 2 weeks or a month.
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Using GraphQL with DynamoDB is Cool
Biggest misconception of GraphQL’s resolvers is that you have to put them on fields. You don’t.
Put 1 on a query/mutation. This matters because people think
“oh, DynamoDB is single table design, GraphQL needs individual fields”.
No. Your query can just do a DynamoDB query.
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