How to setup Go packages under monorepo
Let’s say you want to have two Go packages pkg1 and pkg2 in a monorepo setup. Here’s what a good project structure would look like.
Common pitfalls of GitHub Actions
If you create GitHub Actions via GitHub’s UI by going to the URL of the form https://github.com///actions/new, it provides templates for setting up the build. However, the template is broken. There are four problems with the default template
Test changes to CircleCI config locally
Rather than pushing the code to a remote branch and then testing via Circle CI servers, it is best to run the tests locally first and make them work. Here’s how you can do that.
React Native
There are tons of hyped-up claims surrounding React Native that are worth addressing. The reasons why companies run for React Native are usually, We already use Javascript for the website and now, we can build apps in that as well. […]
Android: Catching NDK crashes
On Android catching Java exceptions is easy via UncaughtExceptionHandler. Catching NDK crashes is a bit more convoluted. Since the native stack is probably corrupted, you want the crash handler to run on a separate process. Also, since the system might […]
Docker: Be careful about the scratch image
After I wrote my previous post, some suggested that I can cut down the image size further by using a “scratch” image. And that’s true, “scratch i”s a reserved 0-sized image with nothing in it. And utilizing a scratch binary […]
Indeterminate Progress bar is an inferior UX design
60 milliseconds is when we notice something isn’t immediate. Any user interaction, that involves sending data over the network or doing heavy computation on it, usually takes way longer than 60 milliseconds. So, we end with a progress bar. There […]
How many source-code repositories should a startup have
Recently, this question came up during the discussion. “How many source-code repositories should a startup have?” There are two extreme answers, a single monorepo for all the code or repository for each library/microservice. Uber, for example, had 8000 git repositories […]
The two-step approach to big code modifications
We all have to make significant code changes from time to time. Most of these code changes are large. Consider the scenario that you merged one such significant change, and then other team members made a few more changes on […]
Incremental testing: save time and money on CI for monorepo
To use monorepo or not is an eternal debate. Each has its pros and cons. Let’s say you decide to go with monorepo, one major issue you will face over time is slow testing. Imagine a monorepo, consisting of an […]