Coding Blocks

We gather around the water cooler to discuss some random topics, while Joe sends too many calendar invites, Allen interferes with science, and Michael was totally duped.

If you’re reading these show notes via your podcast player, you can find this episode’s full show notes at https://www.codingblocks.net/episode141. As Joe would say, check it out and join the conversation.

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News

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Factorio v1 is official! (factorio.com)

Overheard Around the Water Cooler

Are your unit tests bring your down? Do we hate unit tests now?

Unit Testing Is Overrated (Hacker News)

Is TDD Dead? (Reddit, Hacker News)

Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration. (KentCDodds.com)

Do you have to read your emails?

Are you ruining everything by working late?

Is Kubernetes programmings?

When developing the next big deal application, which of the following are most important to you?

Features

Automation, i.e. CI / CD pipeline

Unit tests, maybe even TDD

Dependency Injection

ALM (Alerting, Logging, Monitoring)

Security first

Resources We Like

RAW Vim Workshop/Tutorial (YouTube)

Explore Kubernetes resources with Datadog Live Containers (Datadog)

Tip of the Week

Lens, The Kubernetes IDE (GitHub)

Bind Docker inside a running container to the host’s Docker instance to use Docker within Docker by adding the following to your Docker run command: -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock

Note that this syntax works on Windows.