Slalom Engineering

We are software engineers working @Slalom. We're creative, curious, & we love crafting elegant solutions for our clients. Sharing insights and challenges here.

[Slalom Engineering @SlalomENG]

We’ve had some great Engineering Blog posts over the last couple months. In our latest, Dan Siwiec makes the case for nuking your entire AWS infrastructure every so often 💥 https://t.co/6tJuXaJuv1

[Slalom Engineering @SlalomENG]

If you haven’t checked it out in a while, give our Slalom Engineering blog a browse https://t.co/ycCDNGpFds

[Slalom @Slalom]

We're gearing up for a fantastic week at #reinvent. Come meet our (extremely) smart, cool Slalom and @slalombuild team at Booth #1438.

[Slalom Engineering @SlalomENG]

For QA test engineers or DevOps developers working in the Microsoft ecosystem, there are several load testing options to pick from. In our latest Engineering Blog post, Curtis Zorn offers his comparative analysis of 3 Microsoft load testing solutions https://t.co/PZ7x1Jb0jq

[Slalom Engineering @SlalomENG]

Check out @SlalomToronto's new event series: DevOps Dojo! These meetups offer an opportunity for IT professionals and students to learn and practice technologies such as Cloud infrastructure management and automation, serverless architectures, and CI/CD https://t.co/WhY7jWQk17

[Slalom Engineering @SlalomENG]

The Elm language entices web developers with functional programming and virtually no runtime errors. In our latest Engineering Blog post, Ben Lyon shares his initial thoughts from using Elm during a hackathon, and his impression on its tradeoffs in prod https://t.co/umqTPnavhg

[Slalom UK & Ireland @SlalomUKI]

"How to build a secure by default Kubernetes cluster with a basic CI/CD pipeline on AWS" by @SlalomUK Matthew Sheppard and Donald Carnegie. Check it out on @Medium @SlalomENG https://t.co/QhOlJoyPt0
#Kubernetes #AWS

[Slalom Engineering @SlalomENG]

Slalom's open source Xamarin reference architecture - XSlope - will help you quickly get Android and iOS apps setup on top of an established MVVM-based solution so your team can hit the ground running https://t.co/Te85IaDuBh

[Slalom Engineering @SlalomENG]

As time goes on, MVC controllers tend to become more bloated and untestable. In our latest Engineering Blog post, Eddie Groberski explains and evaluates the VIPER pattern as an alternative to MVC and MVVM for iOS development https://t.co/u8xZYGmKJl

[Slalom Engineering @SlalomENG]

When working with #microservices, it's common to create multiple projects- at least one per domain. Slalom's @pb8226 explains how he reduces this repetitive process by extending @java_hipster's application generator to suit his project's specific needs: https://t.co/NXegsJMU7G

[Slalom Engineering @SlalomENG]

In one of our first Quality Engineering blog posts, Likitha Lokesh discusses the challenges of mobile application testing, and details her use of Microsoft's Xamarin Test Cloud to easily scale automated mobile testing across many different devices: https://t.co/MANplcey9v

[Slalom Engineering @SlalomENG]

One of the main drivers fueling the QA evolution at Slalom has been the belief that testing is, at its core, a software engineering discipline. As such, Slalom has relaunched its QA practice as QE - Quality Engineering. We also have a dedicated QE blog: https://t.co/0LQIE2Cdt2

[Chris Manson | @mansona.bsky.social @real_ate]

Happy Node 4.x EOL day 🎉

Some highlights of what you get with now the *lowest* supported Node version (6.x) =>

* Default Function Parameters
* Rest Parameters
* Spread operator
* Destructuring (Arrays & Objects)
* Proxys
* Array.includes

And more 🎉 Happy Coding!

[Slalom Engineering @SlalomENG]

Continuing to expand on Slalom's "Black Slope" .NET Core reference architecture, Shankur Mahajan walks you through the comprehensive, production-ready, & time-saving features that you get out-of-the-box to accelerate your development: https://t.co/F6dQxc5Qo4

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful." - John Maeda

[Slalom Engineering @SlalomENG]

In a display of wild ambition, Slalom's @ppsimatikas & team implemented IoT pressure sensors, GCP serverless inventory tracking, Alexa voice control, & ML facial recognition... to catch office Pop-Tart bandits. A story of 22hrs to win Hack the Office 2.0: https://t.co/1fTp06ehNr

[Slalom Engineering @SlalomENG]

Swagger is useful as a contract source of truth, but leaves room for process errors. Check out @rishirajsingh90's post showing how to enforce consistency by generating frontend models from contracts (and deserializing responses to those models on the fly): https://t.co/qZhvoTEAaj

[Chrome for Developers @ChromiumDev]

What the *smoosh* happened to Array#flatten?! Why is everyone talking about MooTools? Why doesn’t TC39 just break the Web?

@mathias explains #SmooshGate: https://t.co/sORpEE1Q2L

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"Programming is being ten minutes away from being done for the rest of your life." - Jon Maddox (@maddox)

[Slalom Engineering @SlalomENG]

Slalom's @ppsimatikas chronicles the path he took to introduce the benefits of TypeScript to his #React framework pattern in our new Engineering Blog post: https://t.co/v2CnZtBSXy