When building applications using frameworks like Nodejs it's easy enough to implement dotenv libraries which give you the ability to pull… — When building applications using frameworks like Nodejs it's easy enough to implement dotenv libraries which give you the ability to pull in your environment specific and other config data when running the application from a .env file. It is also important that this data is kept away from your repositories…

Before the advent of microservices there existed mostly what is known as a monolith application. An all-encompassing application that is… — Before the advent of microservices there existed mostly what is known as a monolith application. An all-encompassing application that is designed, built, tested, and deployed job done or maybe not. Of course, this is exactly why 80% of all software projects ultimately failed. Especially in a world where nothing sits…

After over 20 years as a developer then test engineer which has exposed me to a great deal of coding in multiple languages particularly… — After over 20 years as a developer then test engineer which has exposed me to a great deal of coding in multiple languages particularly Java and C#, I never really took the opportunity to fine tune my JavaScript skills. I had only really got involved with JavaScript on a few…