2025-10-24 Notes

Goals

Hoping to get a head start on the day again
Learning about tests and automated testing of microservices today
2025-10-24 08:32: Scaling up the fundamentals of Testing is still very fuzzy to me. I understand it from the point of view of unit tests and from the peak of testing the behaviour of the whole application. Mocking and everything intermediate is what I don’t quite get yet. Hope I understand as I write more code
The number of resources suggested, will definitely amount to years of reading!

Ok. I ate my testing brocoli
Now to figure out how to ship!
Putting it together also feels like drawing the rest of the fucking owl!
Basically tells me I need to do this over and over to get good at it
I thought I could learn all this and write holistically about a whole project I’d put together. Now it will more NM posts, as I learn the pieces and see how they fit
It does give me an idea of how microservices work though. Fast, consistent, reproducible, modular programming
Launched and tested the whole application, that the author generously provided with docker compose. More now after tea.

Back to work
Most stuff now presupposes the existence of a cluster, so is that a separate thing to do always? I assume clusters don’t change that often
2025-10-24 13:15: Breaking for lunch. Will continue with the book today, since I think I’m at the end and I don’t want to rebuild and redo my Azure cluster again tomorrow

Back to work
2025-10-24 14:05: And we’re done! The end came faster than I expected
Monday onwards now I’ll start applying these lessons my raft of tiny services, so that I don’t have to worry about setting up my Hetzner VM ever again.

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