July 7th, 2018
9 minute read
My previous blog post,
Python Mocking 101: Fake It Before You Make It
, discussed the basic mechanics of mocking and unit testing in Python. This post covers some higher-level software engineering principles demonstrated in my experience with Python testing over the past year and half. In particular, I want to revisit the idea of patching mock.
February 10th, 2018
11 minute read
Welcome to a guide to the basics of mocking in Python. It was born out of my need to test some code that used a lot of network services and my experience with
GoMock
, which showed me how powerful mocking can be when done correctly (thanks,
Tyler
). I'll begin with a philosophical discussion about mocking because good mocking requires a different.
March 6th, 2017
12 minute read
Fugue
uses Python extensively throughout the
Conductor
and in our support tools, due to its ease-of-use, extensive package library, and powerful language tools. One thing we've learned from building complex software for the cloud is that a language is only as good as its debugging and profiling tools. Logic errors, CPU spikes, and memory leaks.
May 23rd, 2016
13 minute read
"Much more than encryption algorithms, one-way hash functions are the workhorses of modern cryptography." —Bruce Schneier
Cryptographic hashes (or one-way hash functions) allow us to compute a digest that uniquely identifies a resource. If we make a small change anywhere in a resource, its digest also changes—drastically, because of the .
May 8th, 2016
15 minute read
Here at
Fugue
, the Web Team is a small but spirited minority—in favor of JavaScript,
60 frames per second
, and keeping our DevOps simple. We like experimentation and new approaches to computing that favor substance and elegance over fad and bling. For some time, we’ve been using
AWS Lambda
with SNS topics and
votebots
, but we hadn’t tried.
January 26th, 2016
7 minute read
This fall, I had the chance to dive headfirst into functional programming languages. It’s not a journey for the dabbler or the faint of heart, but it's one that’s worthwhile.
I'd been aware of functional programming and Haskell in particular for some time, but my attempts to learn it had been less than successful. The problem wasn’t lack of.
December 1st, 2015
3 minute read
Jared Tobin is one of our consultants at
fugue.co
—he's a programmer and researcher based out of Auckland, New Zealand. Jared's article in this month's issue of PragPub, The Pragmatic Bookshelf's magazine affiliation, is a helpful read if you're interested in functional programming and Haskell in particular. Check out "Practical Recursion.
March 20th, 2014
4 minute read
Here at
Luminal
, work on a major component of Fugue began in Python 2.7. For this component, we had some early deadlines and a lot of architecture to figure out and prove, so for implementation, we went with what was familiar. We think this was the right decision.
However, after we met our deadlines, we took some time to reconsider our.
