Software engineering teams are a critical component of many companies, where the effectiveness of these teams can have a significant impact on the company's success. But how many organizations specifically focus on helping their developers be more productive? Making investments such as these in improving developer …

Recently as part of Projektor test report project, I wanted to add the capability to comment directly on pull requests with links to the test report, code coverage stats, etc. That way users could get easier and faster access to the information than searching through the CI output to find the link to the Projektor test …

Database queries slower than you'd like? With Postgres' built-in explain/analyze capability you can identify what's making the query slow and fix it. In this example, we'll analyze the performance of query called as part of an API GET endpoint. First, we'll seed our test database with enough data to get meaningful …

One of my goals when I started a learning project a couple of years ago was to get more hands-on experience with Kotlin co-routines, so I explored app frameworks that natively supported co-routines. I landed on Ktor, an open-source framework from JetBrains (creators of Kotlin) that supports co-routines throughout the …

For the Projektor open-source test reporting project I wanted to keep all the code in a single mono repo to make it easy to work on and manage. But over time as the project evolved it grew into multiple deployable artifacts, and I wanted to be able to release each of those components independently as needed: Server …

When I started writing Kotlin code a couple of years ago, one of the main things I missed after previously writing tests with Groovy/Spock were the easy yet powerful assertions with Groovy's power assert - not to mention the expressive failure messages when a test failed. Groovy's power assert prints out the …