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Erica Giordo

Hosting your own TICK Stack

On the top of product objectives here at OVO we also have tech ones: last half in the Cross-Sell team we worked to migrate all our services from EC2 and ElasticBeanstalk to AWS ECS Fargate [https://aws.amazon.com/fargate]. This has allowed us to push Docker images to ECR (AWS Docker container regist…

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Cats and type classes

I love going to Scala meetups and living in London gives you tons of chances to attend lots of them. In the past year there has been a spike in the number of Scala communities, making it easy for everybody to attend. Do you fancy an introductory talk? Do you want to dig deeper into FP? Do you want t…

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An intro to algebraic structures

TL;DR just maths, no code A couple of weeks ago I was going through the Typelevel libraries and I noticed that I've never played around with Algebra [https://typelevel.org/algebra/typeclasses/overview.html], an experimental project that interoperates with Cats via the kernel module. Algebra is used…

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Integration testing with Docker and PSQL

When developing an application, integration tests are always an important part of our testing coverage, since they help us ensuring that the different pieces together work fine [http://ilkinulas.github.io/assets/integration_tests/no_integration_test.gif]. In our case, the integration tests that we w…

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