TypeScript

Async, Promises, and Timers in Node.js

TypeScript is a nice language but sometimes you end up in the dark corners of JavaScript or the runtime. And what about what happens when the `setTimeout` callback returns a promise?

TypeScript

4 Terrible Ways (and 4 Better Ways) to fix 'TS7016: Could not find declaration file'

There's great flexibility with TypeScript — the gradual typing. You don't have to prove yourself to the compiler because it will let opt-out. But sometimes opting out is harder than other times. We've compiled eight fixes for helping to get past the errors.

automation

Gradle Build Files: Consistency Over Cute, Every Time

If you want to be able to take advantage of automation tooling or make your builds less of a unique snowflake in every project, start by making your Gradle build files consistent, every time. In this post, we outline why getting cute with your Gradle files is never a good idea.

how-we-work

Error Handling in GraphQL

Error handling in GraphQL can be surprisingly difficult. With the ability to tie together what would otherwise be many requests, we see both its greatest strength but also complexity when things go wrong. What does it mean when part of the query was successful but another part failed?

Raising Spring: An 18-Year Journey

Speaking about the eighteen-year-old technology at the recent SpringOne Platform conference, Rod highlights the ideas and values that were important in creating the open source application framework. Notably, he references the ten lessons he and others learned through their journey.

Docker

How Soon We Forget: Security in the Age of Docker & Kubernetes

Forgetting all we learned over the past 40 years, we tell ourselves that running microservices in containers provides all the security we need. We convince ourselves that operating behind a firewall protects us from harm. What could possibly go wrong?

DevOps

Managing a GitOps Flow on Kubernetes

Using GitOps on Kubernetes means all your changes are reviewed and recorded, so you can move more quickly because everything is automated & all changes are easy to undo. Exposing your GitOps flow in chat means all the information you need is at your fingertips. Here's how we GitChatOps.

Incorporate the Modern World Into the Software’s World

Software needs to evolve. Not only for its users but also underneath. Teams should incorporate the capabilities the world now offers and remove the custom components and infrastructure that are no longer unique to your business.

SDM

Exploring the world with Aspects

Let's discuss TypeScript projects. How do teams organize theirs? Where do people put TypeScript source, and where do they put their output? What is the standard? Is there a standard?

DevOps

Get control of your code and process

Drift is the divergence of your code and configuration from where you would want it to be, from an ideally current state. It happens over time and typically goes unnoticed until something breaks or an exploit happens. Tame drift with Atomist.

DevOps

What's Lurking in Your Repositories?

The monolith is crumbling. Most organizations are moving from a small number of large applications to a large number of relatively small applications. Benefits include the ability to deploy small pieces of functionality

Kubernetes

Kubernetes Clusters: Pets or Cattle?

When talking about treating Kubernetes clusters like cattle, people tend to focus solely on creating clusters, but what about all the resources you need to deploy? The Atomist CLI lets you fetch your resources from Kubernetes clusters so you can really treat clusters like cattle.

Continuous Delivery

Making Jenkins smarter with Atomist

When working with our customers, we frequently get questions around integrating Atomist into an existing Jenkins-based CI/CD environment: How does Atomist relate to Jenkins?

TypeScript

Declare what you need, not what you get

TL;DR: the Interface Segregation is particularly smooth in TypeScript. Use it.

Kubernetes

GitOps on Kubernetes

Persist Kubernetes resource changes to Git. Atomist makes deploying to Kubernetes easy in a way that is already largely consistent with GitOps best practices. There was one major part of GitOps missing: having the desired state of your system versioned in Git.

Continuous Delivery

Data-Driven Delivery Orchestration with Containers

Automating development and delivery just got a lot easier! With the recent release of SDM 1.6, we made getting started with your own SDM easier than ever. Two features in particular make

release

Announcing SDM 1.6 with Container Goals

Version 1.6 of the Software Delivery Machine framework is out now! This release is focused on ease of use and scalability. New featuresSome of the noteworthy features added in the 1.6

autofix

Keep Documentation Code Examples Current Automatically

Keeping documentation maintained is hard enough. Keeping code samples in the documentation current and working makes it even harder. Until... We recently added an autofix to our documentation's delivery machine, and some extra

collaboration

From puzzles to products

Note: this is a keynote from Velocity Conf 2019, San Jose. A text version of the material follows, and then references. I got into programming as a career because it was easy. I

meetup

Community Happy Hours with Atomist Engineering at Mikkeller London

We're hosting happy hours at Mikkeller Bar in Shoreditch this evening. Come by for a drink and high five an Atomist engineer. 🙌

collaboration

Principles of Collaborative Automation

I have four prerequisites for you here, and then four precautions. These principles come out of the Resilience Engineering community, and studies of collaboration in humans working together.

collaboration

"Rely on" vs "Work with"

We work with our teammates, so the world can rely on our team.

This Will Surprise You

How many different Docker base images is your organization running? Which ports do your Docker containers expose? How many versions of core technologies like TypeScript or Spring Boot are you running? How many

Continuous Delivery

Control vs Flexibility: what do we centralize?

Centralization/decentralization is a pernicious tradeoff in development. Do we value consistency or flexibility? To defeat this tradeoff, draw the lines in the right place.

Secure Many Projects with One Piece of Code

Leakage of secrets such as API keys in GitHub repositories is dangerous. How dangerous? It once caused Uber to leak the contact details of 75m users. Bots are crawling all over GitHub seeking