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Choosing a (Language) Stack

This post and the experiment was a collaborative effort by Michael Farinacci (Load Testing), Nick Gordon…

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Phil Sturgeon in WeWork

Aug 27, 2018

Our API Specification Workflow

A year ago we started trying to figure out the best way to not just document HTTP APIs, but to leverage API specifications to avoid duplicating efforts on loads of similar-but-different tasks; maintaining Postman Collections, creating mocks, contract testing, payload…

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Paul Franzen in WeWork

Jan 10, 2018

Build your own chat-bot using AWS Lex and Ruby on Rails

TLDR; If you don’t want to go through all this trouble, and think you’ve got a handle on both Lex and RoR, you can skip directly to the sample repo, and kick the tires! Live on the web here.

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Limor Mekaiten in WeWork

May 14, 2018

Reading Redux? Easy!

When I first read the Redux docs and went over the great tutorial, I understood the basic idea and how to “get things to work with the Redux store”…for just one component. Then, when trying to read an existing code of a big react application that uses Redux, I understood that I don’t really…

Bryant Rockoff in WeWork

Jan 22, 2018

Secret Versioning in Hashicorp’s Vault

One of the major hurdles WeWork has had to overcome with Hashicorp’s Vault project is its lack of versioning of secrets you write to and from its API.

When you change a value, the previous iteration is lost to the great Vault gods in…

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Igor Brishkoski in WeWork

Jan 8, 2018

Dos and Don’ts When Dealing With Secrets in Android

NOTE: Once you publish your APK into the wild, anyone with enough knowledge and time can get whatever they need from it. However putting deterrents along the way is a really good way to discourage people with malicious intents most of the…

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Paul Franzen in WeWork

Jun 7, 2018

5 steps for fearless refactoring

You’ve just been paroled from your bi-weekly planning session and you’re frothing at the mouth to Write. Some. Code. You snatch the juiciest ticket from the top of your Jira board and start digging.