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About Creating State-of-the-Art Software
Android phones are receiving more RAM with each passing year, but guess what? It’s never enough! Android itself consumes it voraciously. The same holds true for Google Chrome. It seems that despite having better hardware, software quality is deteriorating each year. How did we go from the software that sent men to the moon with…
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How Kubernetes works? (II)
In the previous part we talked about K8s architecture. In this post we talk about running a cluster and deploying an app to it. We are going to get started with K3s which is a lightweight version of K8s. It only contains the main components of Kubernetes. Since I don’t have a network of VMs…
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How Kubernetes works? (I)
When you Google “why kubernetes is freaking hard to learn” you’ll discover thousands of results. It appears that learning how to work with Kubernetes is not easy, especially for people who don’t have backgrounds in software engineering or DevOps. It could be a nightmare for those who haven’t had experience deploying applications to VMs or…
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Resist the urge for writing unit tests, unless you have a good reason to do so.
TLDR: Don’t write unit tests for things that will cause your program not to compile if they go wrong. WARN: This is a highly opinionated article. There is a prevailing trend nowadays to create unit tests for every method. Advocates of unit tests assert that by having these tests, you can refactor code without fearing…
Hossein Naderi
code & math