In a previous article, we looked at Vue 3 reactivity and how something elegant and powerful can occasionally work against us. This time, we move slightly higher in the stack and focus on a different illusion, one that is deeply rooted in modern frontend and backend collaboration. The idea that an API contract that passes…
Read MoreAt first glance, rebuilding an RPM may sound like a purely mechanical task: take a patch, rebuild the package, ship it. In reality, that small fix goes through a much longer journey that touches reliability, security, trust, and long-term maintainability. In this article, we’ll walk through what really happens when a tiny upstream patch needs…
Read MoreWhen adopting an open-source software project that you don’t own, you may find it necessary to modify it partially to meet your specific requirements. However, as you implement those changes, it’s important to recognize that the upstream project will eventually update itself, leading to potential conflicts in the files that both you and the upstream…
Read MoreAs you may have noticed from recent posts from some of my colleagues about “Boosting NetEye CI Speed: Test Parallelization” or “Speeding up the NetEye CI Testing Phase“, we are improving our CI in order to have a reliable, fast system that is able to test all the features we implement in NetEye 4. As…
Read MoreOn February 3rd and 4th, 2024, we attended FOSDEM, a major event where thousands of free and open-source software developers from around the world gather to exchange ideas and collaborate. This year I dedicated much of the second day to the Testing and Continuous Delivery room. Continuous testing is essential for ensuring the safe and…
Read MoreOver the course of the last few years, we’ve introduced more and more features in NetEye 4. This fact has had a side effect that’s not directly visible to customers, namely that we keep adding more and more tests to the testing phase of the NetEye 4 Continuous Integration pipelines. While this ensures that regression…
Read MoreThe development of a software solution requires automated quality control to deliver a better customer experience. Our Unified Monitoring solution is based on a best-of-breed approach using tried-and-trusted open source tools. In our vision, the development processes should deliver integrated solutions through automated systems which manage not only the building and verification of the software…
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