Ben McCallum

Software engineer. Aus + Fr.

[Ben McCallum @benmccallum]

@zaphski have you heard about the council's plan to replace a local park in Miami, huge trees and all, with a satellite ops depot? There's a lot to this story. A kindergarten and residential next door. @bazluhrmann is moving into the former depot site. https://t.co/Cujngje54H

[Ben McCallum @benmccallum]

@davidfowl We've traditionally squashed, but it's going to be a bit of a pain for our DORA tracking (time from commit to production), though my thinking is we can at squash time we can keep all the relevant references so that it doesn't matter. TBD

[Ben McCallum @benmccallum]

@troyhunt @haveibeenpwned I'm sure there's great people out there on these platforms, don't get me wrong...

[Ben McCallum @benmccallum]

@troyhunt @haveibeenpwned Far out I laughed at the attempt at Fiverr. My partner does branding, design and comms and often her clients try to take this route to save money only to come crawling back with their tail between their legs. At this point, AI might get you better.

[Ben McCallum @benmccallum]

@troyhunt @haveibeenpwned Pay well for an expert for sure. You'll often save money anyway by avoiding multiple revisions to extract something usable. Potentially having to go then pay an expert anyway. Absolute worst would be having to tell your trusty designer you tried to circumvent them to save a buck

[Ben McCallum @benmccallum]

@burkeholland Organise by features over types ❤️

[Ben McCallum @benmccallum]

@davidfowl It's certainly not as easy as it looks on the tin. There's tons of intricacies, edge cases, explicit ordering and workarounds you'll need to get something decent, but we've recently moved 8 years of infra onto CDK as part of going multi-tenant with success, albeit pain too

[Ben McCallum @benmccallum]

@rippo @davidfowl Yea super easy. Octopus Deploy have a lot of "actions" you use in your workflows to auth, push your package, create a release etc. Their documentation is amazing, just google "octopus GitHub actions" and you'll find it

[Ben McCallum @benmccallum]

@davidfowl That said, the FE team recently moved their 100 or so micro-frontends to AWS pipelines due to the incompatibility of that many apps with Octopus's new pricing model.

We may eventually go that way on BE, but Octopus is so good for a lot of reasons.

[Ben McCallum @benmccallum]

@davidfowl GH Actions --> Octopus

CI pushes an image into ECR and does a CDK synth to build the stack which uses that image (ECS app).

CD simply deploys the stack / cloud formation template.

Octopus is amazing, and I like supporting a company from Brisbane.

[Ben McCallum @benmccallum]

@troyhunt Correct. Absolutely ridiculous view up there. We could see fireworks from Main Beach to Southport.

[Ben McCallum @benmccallum]

@brendowebbo @troyhunt Mate, we all wish haha. At least on the GC

[Ben McCallum @benmccallum]

@troyhunt

[Ben McCallum @benmccallum]

@troyhunt Here we go....

[Ben McCallum @benmccallum]

@foilmanhacks @troyhunt Depending on how the law is written, it doesn't have to be bulletproof, just inconvenient/difficult enough for children. Are you saying it's damn easy?

[Glen @Gergyl]

"Vehicles with a gross (between) 3.5 tonnes and ... 4.5 t are not required to have a carbon dioxide test, and so would not initially be covered by the standards." The 'Yank-tank' exemption. What is the Australian Labor political party even for?

https://t.co/Q4oAtMKVUB

[Ben McCallum @benmccallum]

@davidfowl In other words, I avoided having to do what you're doing entirely, because it seemed like it'd be painful!

I remember hitting an issue or two and thinking the scenario needed a bit more first party support to make it easier.

[Ben McCallum @benmccallum]

@davidfowl I did some hoop jumping a while back so that I could spin up and tie together an instance of WebApplicationFactory for each upstream services behind our graphql service, as well as one for it to run integration tests at it. Was... interesting, but doable!

[Ben McCallum @benmccallum]

@Omnideth @jbogard Has there actually been any breaking changes?