Building Go Microservice with Gin and CI/CD Get familiar with Gin and find out how it can help you reduce boilerplate code and build a request handling pipeline. Kulshekhar Kabra 2 Jun 2022
Dockerizing a PHP Application Learn how to leverage Docker’s advantages to easily develop and deploy a PHP application to Heroku, using Semaphore for continuous deployment. Rafie Younes 19 May 2022
Dockerizing a Python Django Web Application Get an understanding of how to dockerize your Django application, using the Gunicorn web server, capable of serving thousands of requests in a minute. David Sale 12 May 2022
10 Books Every Senior Engineer Should Read Engineers are natural readers. At Semaphore, we’ve picked our favorite books. We hope you like them too. Tomas Fernandez 7 Apr 2022
The Testing Pyramid: How to Structure Your Test Suite Explore different ways of organizing the test suite including testing pyramid, testing matrix and testing trophy. Tomas Fernandez 29 Mar 2022
How to Introduce Testing in Teams and Companies Learn how the introduction of testing practices in companies can improve product quality and production efficiency. Ferdinando Santacroce 3 Mar 2022
The Economics of TDD TDD can help you accelerate development and reduce costs over a project’s lifecycle. Tomas Fernandez 24 Feb 2022
9 Ways To Make Slow Tests Faster At Semaphore, we’ve seen our fair share of tests and have identified 9 ways to make your slow tests faster. Tomas Fernandez 23 Feb 2022
What is a Flaky Test? How to Fix Flaky Tests? Randomly failing tests are the hardest to debug. Here’s a system you can use to fix them and keep your test suite healthy. Nebojša Stričević 3 Feb 2022
Deploy Flutter (iOS) Apps to Testers using Firebase App Distribution with Semaphore This article focuses on automating deployments for Flutter (iOS) apps using ad-hoc releases in App Distribution. Read it if you’re interested in implementing this for Android. Joshua de Guzman 20 Jan 2022
Feature Flags: A Gentle Introduction If you can't decide if testing in production is a foolish or a genius idea, this tutorial will definitely help. Tomas Fernandez 4 Jan 2022
Architecting Scalable React Native Apps Writing scalable React Native apps requires a good understanding of practices that can keep up as the size of your application grows. In this article, we will discuss a few tips to architect highly-scalable React Native apps. Zain Sajjad 28 Dec 2021
Test-Driven Development (TDD): A Time-Tested Recipe for Quality Software What is Test-Driven Development (TDD)? Explore its history, relationship to testing, and the benefits you can get from it. Ferdinando Santacroce 21 Dec 2021
CI/CD Pipeline: A Gentle Introduction Do you want your engineering team to deliver bug-free code at high velocity? A fast and reliable CI/CD pipeline is crucial for doing that sustainably over time. Summary A CI/CD pipeline is an automated process that allows teams to quickly develop, test, and deploy applications. It integrates continuous integration (CI)—where developers frequently merge and test code […] Marko Anastasov 28 Oct 2021
What is monorepo? (and should you use it?) Monorepos can foster rapid development workflows. In this post, we’ll examine if they are the right fit for you and your company. Tomas Fernandez 17 Mar 2021