Sebastian Gebski

Sebastian Gebski

Geek, agilista, blogger, codefella, serial reader. In the daylight - I navigate & lead software engineering. #lean #design #aws #elixir #analytics. I speak here for myself only.

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Isolator - unit testing done right? Part #2

What should we do to start mocking? In the most simple case, we extract the interface from the functionality we want to mock and prepare another implementation that returns mock results. Unfortunately, there are few problems: first, this code may be the legacy one (so there’s no chance for...

Isolator - unit testing done right? Part #1

Idea of automated unit testing is not new. There are several unit test frameworks on pretty much all programming platforms and you can find multiple publications regarding unit testing in every tech bookstore, so you can get familiar with the idea easily. Community is in line - unit testing is...

Keeping the balance

During my professional career, I’ve seen many technical solutions. They fall into few categories: 1. "Stone bricks" - they do what they have to in a crude and the simplest possible way, they are not re-usable in any case and no-one bothers a lot about their maintainability....

Paying a visit to the land of toy elephant

Today I’m going to share a bunch of links related to some stuff I’ve been digging into recently. In my quest to broaden the knowledge about modern NoSQL/ Big Data solutions, I’ve encountered Apache Cassandra that led me straight to HBase and this was already an edge...

New year's resolutions

Do you make any? Probably you do and so do I. There’s a lot of stuff on my list and I won’t be surprised if many of them won’t happen within next year (on 1st of Jan everyone is very optimistic and I fit in with that...

My two cents on agile vs classic approach

I was planning to write something about differences between agile approach to software development and more classical one (waterfall-alike) style, but I didn’t really want to repeat the obvious banalities you can easily find on Google. That’s why I decided to present it more like “top-down” versus “bottom-up”...

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