Recently, I started working on a new side project in Elixir and I think I've finally found something I'm going to stick with; a service where we are required to add a label to our Pull Requests and a Slack channel is notified that the PR is ready to be reviewed
I started reminiscing on all I had learned over the past ten years and decided I wanted to write a brief summary of my journey to becoming a Software Engineer and what I hope to accomplish moving forward.
Recently, I decided that one of my goals for 2019 was to familiarize myself more with Docker. I've been exposed to using Docker for the past couple of years, but I don't use it on a day to day basis.
I realized that we are always using Ruby Alpine images, and not the base Ruby image. I wanted to standardize the Dockerfiles I had written at work and here for the blog so I decided to look into what it would take to do so.
Set up a testing environment that can be run locally and in a repeatable fashion for continuous integration
The process I went through to figure out what was needed; I believe it is good exercise in understanding how to follow code to and understanding what it takes to re-implement functionality.
Instead of having to create a Rails application and install the gem to connect to the database to test your models, we can create local database for only the gem by adding ActiveRecord's Rake tasks.
I was recently thinking about system design, specifically the monolithic vs microservices approaches and how applications can talk to each other.
A new year, a new attempt at blogging!