Archive - automation hacks

BYOL: bring your own learning ⚡️

A post on how self-learning on your own time can bring you compounding effects in your engineering career that your day job just might not!

Aug 13 •

July 2024

TribeQonf 2024 Debrief

Talks I saw and what I learned from them, tools and solutions explored at booths and the people I met

Jul 14 •

June 2024

Testing gRPC #5: Load test a gRPC service

Learn how to write a load test for a locally hosted gRPC Java service using locust4j and run it on a local locust python-based master service

Jun 2 •

March 2024

Testing gRPC #4: How to E2E test a gRPC service

Explore how to write a Functional API test for gRPC API with the live service

Mar 20 •

Testing gRPC #3: How to unit test a gRPC client

Grasp internals of how a client is written, and unit test it with a positive and negative case with a fake service implementation.

Mar 7 •

February 2024

What I wish I knew about Software Testing and growth at the start of my career 🌱

A random unordered list of skills, approaches, habits, and growth ideas that I wish I had known at the start of my testing career to mature and compound…

Feb 25 •

Testing gRPC #2: How to unit test a gRPC server

We explore: How a service method is implemented, how the basic anatomy of a server unit tests, and understand GrpcCleanupRule, InProcessServer, and…

Feb 20 •

Testing gRPC #1: Set up a gRPC server and make an API call via gRPC UI

We explore: What is gRPC, its basic nuts and bolts, how to setup a server and explore APIs via a web UI

Feb 15 •

December 2023

Dev: QA ratio A tale of burnout? Is there a better way out?

A deeper look at disproportionately staffed engineering teams and what can we as leaders do to nudge this into more healthier and balanced directions

Dec 31, 2023 •

October 2023

How WhatsApp tests software?

How do engineering teams at Meta enable Quality for an app with a 2B+ monthly active users

Oct 18, 2023 •

August 2023

Engineering practices @ Meta: #8 Performance review process

How does Meta do performance reviews for their software engineers? Let’s find out. 🤓

Aug 25, 2023 •

July 2023

Engineering practices @ Meta: #7 Focus on impact and data

Meta-engineering culture is driven by obsessing over the impact and the use of data to support and inform decisions. This is a core engineering value…

Jul 22, 2023 •

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