Dan Ackerson, Author at Semaphore - Page 10 of 12

Posts by Dan Ackerson

17 DevOps Metrics To Measure Success

DevOps metrics are the vital signs of your project. The metrics you choose can expose problems or can hide them behind irrelevant data.

The Secret Art of Storytelling in Programming

Learn about the 'brain spans' concept and discover the guidelines to write code that is easy to read and flows like a story.

Automate Your React Native Release Process With Semantic Release, Fastlane, and Semaphore

Learn how to set up Semantic Release and Fastlane for releasing React Native apps on Semaphore efficiently.

How to Use Rubocop for Your Team’s Rails Apps

Learn how to add Rubocop to your Rails applications today for incremental improvements on the style of your code.

Improving Security in Your CI/CD Pipeline

This article will take you through a few preventative steps to help you keep your CI/CD pipeline secure.

Microfrontends: Microservices for the Frontend

Can we take microservice architecture patterns and apply them to the frontend?

Database Management With CI/CD

Don’t waste your DBA talents, automate database management with continuous integration.

4 Reasons Why You Should Prefer Vite Over Create-React-App (CRA)

Unlike CRA, Vite does not build your entire application before serving, instead, it builds the application on demand. It also leverages the power of native ES modules, esbuild, and Rollup to improve development and build time.

Become an Elite Team With Dora Metrics

Elite teams are thousands of times more productive than the rest. DORA metrics can help your team ship code at a faster pace.

Applying the Test Pyramid Concept to Ruby on Rails Apps

This article explains how the test types available on Rails and Rspec relate to the different levels of the pyramid, helping you determine how many of each type to write.

Why You Need an API Layer and How To Build It in React

Learn what an API layer is, some of the many benefits it can provide to your architecture, and how to implement it in React.

A Developer’s Guide to Terraform

Terraform is one of the most popular IaC tools available. Learn its benefits and how to use it.

How to Restructure Your Organization for Microservice Applications

Restructuring your organization to support microservice-based applications requires an entire culture shift and new way of working.

When Microservices Are a Bad Idea

Migrating from a monolith to microservices is not a simple task, and creating an untested product as a new microservice is even more complicated. Microservices should only be seriously considered after evaluating the alternative paths.

Testing Strategies For Microservices

Microservices, by their networked nature, provide more points of failure than a traditional monolith. As a result of this, we need a different, broader approach to testing.

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