Posts authored by Jacob Winch:


Friday, 6 December 2019

Software quality in a world of microservices and continuous deployment
Matthew Walls, Jacob Winch

How the role of quality assurance at the Guardian has adapted to support today’s fast-paced software landscape

Changes being prepared for production.

Friday, 28 September 2018

Using Scala string interpolation to protect logged data
John Duffell, Jacob Winch

If you want to debug your code, you need comprehensive logging. But when you want to reuse the logs for alerting, how do you protect data from access by the alerting system?

Scala  

A destroyed hard disk previously containing sensitive data

Tuesday, 20 December 2016

Testing in Production: rethinking the conventional deployment pipeline
Jacob Winch

How using a lightweight continuous deployment pipeline, which focuses on production validation instead of a large suite of acceptance tests, allows us to iterate on the Membership and Subscriptions apps at speed.

Advent developer blog 2016   Testing  

Pipeline inspection